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The Middle English Compendium

Frances McSparran, Chief Editor



The essential electronic resource for medievalists is now complete

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About the Book

The Middle English Compendium offers easy access to and interconnectivity among three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED), a HyperBibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Each of these components can serve as an independent resource, but the power and potential of each are dramatically increased by their interconnection through hypertext links. The HyperBibliography enables easy, swift, and precisely focused transitions from each citation in the electronic MED to the bibliographic entry for that text.

The electronic MED now contains the complete Middle English Dictionary, A-Z, corresponding to 115 fascicles of the print Dictionary, or about 14,940 pages. It contains exactly 54,081 entries and 891,531 quotations, of which better than 99.6% have been linked to the corresponding entries in the HyperBibliography. Manuscript abbreviations and shelfmarks have been added to the stencils for these linked quotations, and the date and occasionally the form of the stencil have been revised. Manuscript abbreviations and shelfmarks have been added to the stencils for these linked quotations. The process of linking all MED stencils to the corresponding entries in the HyperBibliography, and of adding the MS abbreviation and shelfmark to every MED stencil, is almost complete. The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse now contains 61 searchable CME texts with a full array of search mechanisms.

Development of the Middle English Compendium is made possible via the cooperation and support of the staff of the Middle English Dictionary, The University of Michigan, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Middle English Compendium is currently available on the Web through the University of Michigan Press. No passwords are needed.

Direct link to the Middle English Compendium: http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec/

For Terms and Conditions for use of The Middle English Compendium, please go here: www.press.umich.edu/webhome/mec/sitelic.html