A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496Berners, Juliana
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A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle: Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496
Berners, Juliana
Fishing
Paragraphs or sections in the blackletter part were variously marked.
Sections were indicated by either _capitulum_ or else drop cap.
Sparsely supported capitulum (u+2e3f) is replaced by pilcrow (u+b6)
in all editions. The text was justified, and sometimes a capitulum
would be preceded by white space on the right end of a line of
text and a line-break, sometimes by only a single space. Sometimes
vertical white space preceded a capitulum or drop cap; sometimes not.
There are three instances (see pages 3 and 9) of white space on the
right end of a line of text followed by a new sentence on a new line,
but without either capitulum or drop cap. In these ebook editions,
either printed vertical space or a drop cap is transcribed as the
beginning of a new paragraph, i.e. as a new _< p >_ element in the
html edition. Drop caps are indicated in the text edition by “++”
preceding the letter.
The colon (u+3a) is used liberally throughout the blackletter part of
the book. It was usually printed with no space on either side; less
often with a space only on the right side; and rarely with a space
only on the left side. Examples of the latter occur at page 4 line 4
and at page 8 line 2. In this transcription, the colon spacing has
been standardized in the blackletter part of the book to narrow space
on both sides.
Likewise, the glyph we would call _period_ or _full stop_ (u+2e) was
variously printed with no space on either side, or space on one or
both sides. These have been standardized to modern usage: space on
right side only. This glyph seems to have been used variously in the
ways we would use full stop or comma. In addition, roman numerals
are transcribed with the full stop as in, for instance, “wyth .xij.
heeres” (example is from page 10). In many places full stops seem to
be missing from the end of a sentence; these have not been corrected.
In the following sentence from page 1, “Salamon in his parablys sayth
that a good spyryte makyth a flourynge aege / that is a fayre aege &
a longe.”, the “ / ” is our transcription of a glyph shaped somewhat
like an abundantly distorted “3”, compressed horizontally. This glyph
has been interpreted herein as punctuation, similar to our modern
comma or virgule. The glyph was variously printed with no space on
either side, or with space on both sides, or with space on the right
side. In this ebook, the glyph has been transcribed as solidus (u+2f)
with thin space on both sides.
There is one exception. On page 20, line 1, the following sentence
appears: “Ye shall fede and kepe them all in generall : but euery
manere by hymself wyth suche thyngꝭ in and on whiche they brede”.
In the html/epub/mobi editions, the mark after _thyng_ is shown
as an image of the original mark. This mark strongly resembles the
glyphs that have been elsewhere transcribed as solidus, but is bolder
and more angular. The text edition transcribes this instance as “ꝭ”
(u+a76d, Latin small letter IS)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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