[Sir Bevis of Hampton] Beuve de Hanstone. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A09588 of text S4506 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1987.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A09588 STC 1987.5 ESTC S4506 23442146 ocm 23442146 26642 2240939699

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A09588) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 26642) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1826:25) [Sir Bevis of Hampton] Beuve de Hanstone. [2+] p. W. de Worde, [S.l. : ca. 1500] In verse. T.p lacking; title suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Imperfect: fragment of first leaf of text. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library. eng Beuve de Hanstone (Legendary character) eebo [Sir Bevis of Hampton] [no entry] 1500 6 163 8 0 0 0 0 0 490.8 F The rate of 490.8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2009-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-12 Sampled and proofread 2009-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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