Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains: • Transcriptions of all 58 pre-1500 witnesses of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue (54 manuscripts and 4 early print editions), fully encoded in SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language). • Digitized images of the originals of 1,200 manuscript pages, useful for teaching purposes or for checking the accuracy of any transcription against the original. • Hypertext linking between files allowing the reader to call up the full collation of any word across the entire range of witnesses. • A lemmatized spelling database permitting scholars to trace every spelling of every word across the witnesses. • A description of each witness based on examination of the witness itself. • Transcripts of all of the glosses in every manuscript of the Prologue. • A powerful DynaText search and retrieval engine with user-friendly screen design. System requirements: The CD-ROM runs identically on PC Windows and Macintosh systems. All necessary search and display software and fonts are provided on the CD-ROM and do not need to be acquired separately. The following equipment is recommended: PC: 386 or later; Windows 3.1+; 8 Mb of RAM; double-speed CD-ROM drive. Macintosh: system 7 or later; 4 Mb of RAM; double-speed CD-ROM drive.