How to Search the Bibliography
Bibliography searches allow you to search entries containing
descriptions of the authors, works, manuscripts, and editions cited
in
the Middle English Dictionary. The Bibliography also defines the
abbreviated forms (or stencils) used to refer to these works and
provides cross-references to major reference sites to allow further
study.
A Bibliography search will retrieve bibliographic entries that match
your terms.
Bibliography search types
- Entire entry [Default]
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Entire entry searches finds words or phrases anywhere in a
Bibliography entry.
Searching on EETS, for example, will retrieve all
entries that
include Early English Text Society editions.
- Author/Title
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Use an author/title search to find entries for works by known
medieval authors or works by known title. Parts of titles will
find
matches in this search.
Note that anonymous works are not so identified and must be
searched by title or other identifier and that MED identifies
many
works not by a title but by an 'incipit' or beginning phrase from
the work.
- External References
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An external references search allows you to search by a citation
number (for example, IPMEP 346) from the following
bibliographies:
- DIMEV: Linne R. Mooney, Daniel W. Mosser and
Elizabeth Solopova.
The DIMEV: An Open-Access, Digital Edition of the Index of
Middle
English Verse. www.dimev.net, 2010.
- IMEV: C. Brown and R. H. Robbins. The Index
of Middle English
Verse. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. R. H. Robbins
and
J. L. Cutler. Supplement. Lexington: University of Kentucky
Press,
1965.
- IPMEP: R. E. Lewis, N. F. Blake, and A. S.
G. Edwards. Index of
Printed Middle English Prose. New York: Garland, 1985.
- Jolliffe: P. S. Jolliffe A Checklist of
Middle English Prose
Writings of Spiritual Guidance. Toronto: Pontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies, 1974.
- Manual: A Manual of the Writings in Middle
English, 1050-1500. Gen.
eds. J. B. Severs, A. E. Hartung. New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut
Academy of the Arts and Sciences, 1967 -- .
- NIMEV: Julia Boffey and A. S. G Edwards. A
New Index of Middle
English Verse. London: British Library, 2005.
- Wells: J. E. Wells. A Manual of the Writings
in Middle English,
1050-1400. New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Academy of the Arts
and
Sciences, 1916. J. E. Wells, et al. Supplements [9]. 1919-1952.
- LALME/LAEME
A LALME/LAEME search finds texts and manuscripts quoted in the
Dictionary and copied in a scribal dialect identified by the
Linguistic Atlas of Late Middle English (LALME) or Linguistic Atlas
of Early Middle English (LAEME).
You may search by Linguistic Profile number, if known, by
county, and
also by terms which may be included in LALME information
("northern,"
"East Anglian," "main hand," "hand A," etc.)
- Manuscripts
- Use manuscripts searches for identifying works in specific
manuscripts, libraries, or collections. The collection alone (e.g.,
Harley) will retrieve a list of possibly matching manuscripts;
combined with the shelfmark (e.g., "Harley 2253"), it will yield a
list of all works from the specified manuscript.
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