The Wandering Jew's Chronicle Digitisation Project

Bodleian Libraries Research & Learning Services Giles Bergel - British Academy Small Grants scheme; Lyell Research Fund

Principal Investigator / Director: Giles Bergel

Oxford participants: Giles Bergel; James Cummings; John McTague

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://wjc.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Start Date:2009 

End Date: not specified

Funder: British Academy Small Grants scheme; Lyell Research fund

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): OUCS; Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

 

Project Description:

The Wandering Jew's Chronicle is a ballad published between 1634 and c.1820, surviving in 22 known copies of 15 editions, held in ten libraries in Britain and the USA. This project aims to deliver an archive containing high-quality surrogates and transcriptions linked to authoritative metadata, based on locally-hosted and remote resources. The archive will display high-quality zoomable images of surrogates and will provide a parallel-text display of all surviving witnesses, together with textual critical and historical notes, based on TEI-P5 encoded transcriptions. This project serves in part as a demonstrator for collation and parallel-display methods that the PI hopes to implement for larger collections of early printed broadside ballads.