Cotton Nero A.x. is a 14th century manuscript in the British Library.
🔎 Overview
It is the only existing copy of four important Middle English poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness. The Project captured high-quality digital photographs of the entire manuscript; transcribed the entire manuscript at the highest possible level of accuracy and detail; and published critical editions of each of the individual poems. We used XML to describe manuscript features, and provided descriptions of the script and writing.
📋 Objectives
- Publish high-quality digital photographs of the entire manuscript to facilitate future research and public access.
- Transcribe the entire manuscript at the highest possible level of accuracy and detail.
- Pproduce editions of each of the individual poems in which the digital facsimiles and the new transcriptions serve as a basis for a new critical text with glossary, full-textual and explanatory notes, and other supports for readers.
- Develop markup schema using XML and XSLT to render manuscript features on-screen.