Elements for transcription

resolving abbreviations

abbreviation without superscript letters:

<choice><abbr></abbr><expan></expan></choice>

abbreviation with superscript letters:

<choice><abbr><hi rend="superscript"></hi></abbr><expan></expan></choice>

common abbreviations

<choice><abbr>&amp;c</abbr><expan>etcétera</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>1.<hi rend=”superscript”>o</hi></abbr><expan>primero</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>2.<hi rend=”superscript”>o</hi></abbr><expan>segundo</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>3.<hi rend=”superscript”>o</hi></abbr><expan>tercero</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>d.</abbr><expan>don</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>dho</abbr><expan>dicho</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>dha</abbr><expan>dicha</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>dhos</abbr><expan>dichos</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>dhas</abbr><expan>dichas</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>leg.<hi rend=”superscript”>s</hi></abbr><expan>leguas</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>N.</abbr><expan>norte</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>n.<hi rend=”superscript”>o</hi></abbr><expan>nuestro</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>n.<hi rend=”superscript”>a</hi></abbr><expan>nuestra</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>N.<hi rend=”superscript”>a</hi></abbr><expan>Nuestra</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>S.<hi rend=”superscript”>a</hi></abbr><expan>Señora</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>nro</abbr><expan>nuestro</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>O.</abbr><expan>oeste</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>p.</abbr><expan>padre</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>p.<hi rend=”superscript”>r</hi></abbr><expan>por</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>q.<hi rend=”superscript”>e</hi></abbr><expan>que</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>r.<hi rend=”superscript”>l</hi></abbr><expan>real</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>s.<hi rend=”superscript”>r</hi></abbr><expan>señor</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>s.<hi rend=”superscript”>res</hi></abbr><expan>señores</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>S.<hi rend=”superscript”>n</hi></abbr><expan>San</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>S.<hi rend=”superscript”>to</hi></abbr><expan>Santo</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>S.<hi rend=”superscript”>ta</hi></abbr><expan>Santa</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>S.M.</abbr><expan>Su Majestad</expan></choice>

<choice><abbr>S.M.C.</abbr><expan>Su Majestad Católica</expan></choice>

representing other aspects of manuscript

<div></div>

<head></head> (must go inside a <div>, and only one <head> per <div>)

<lb/>

<lb break=”no”/>

<note type=”authorial” place=”marginLeft”></note>

<note type=”authorial” place=”marginRight”></note>

<note type=”authorial” place=”marginTop”></note>

<note type=”authorial” place=”marginBottom”></note>

<pb n=”#r/v” facs=”../images/ch1799_#v-#r.jpg”/>

Elements for modernization

spelling

<choice><orig></orig><reg></reg></choice>

common modernizations

<choice><orig>á</orig><reg>a</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>algun</orig><reg>algún</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>America</orig><reg>América</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>asi</orig><reg>así</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Blás</orig><reg>Blas</reg></choice> (as in “S. (San) Blas”)

<choice><orig>caracter</orig><reg>carácter</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Catolicos</orig><reg>Católicos</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Cortes</orig><reg>Cortés</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>cuio</orig><reg>cuyo</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>cuia</orig><reg>cuya</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>cuios</orig><reg>cuyos</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>cuias</orig><reg>cuyas</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>descubridór</orig><reg>descubridor</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>dió</orig><reg>dio</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>dia</orig><reg>día</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>dias</orig><reg>días</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>é</orig><reg>e</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>espiritu</orig><reg>espíritu</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>extrangeras</orig><reg>extranjeras</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>expedicion</orig><reg>expedición</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>frequentes</orig><reg>frequentes</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>há</orig><reg>ha</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>habia</orig><reg>había</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>hacia</orig><reg>hacía</reg></choice> (be careful with hacia as preposition, ‘towards’)

<choice><orig>hacian</orig><reg>hacían</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>hán</orig><reg>han</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>mas</orig><reg>más</reg></choice> (remember that without accent, mas is ‘pero’)

<choice><orig>Mexico</orig><reg>México</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>mui</orig><reg>muy</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>nacion</orig><reg>nación</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>navegacion</orig><reg>navegación</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>ó</orig><reg>o</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>occeano</orig><reg>océano</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>parages</orig><reg>parajes</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>podria</orig><reg>podría</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>proposito</orig><reg>propósito</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>qual</orig><reg>cual</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>quando</orig><reg>cuando</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>quanto</orig><reg>cuanto</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>razon</orig><reg>razón</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>rio</orig><reg>río</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>segun</orig><reg>según</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Súr</orig><reg>Sur</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>tambien</orig><reg>también</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>tenia</orig><reg>tenía</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>tenian</orig><reg>tenían</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>tubo</orig><reg>tuvo</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>viage</orig><reg>viaje</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>vió</orig><reg>vio</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>yerba</orig><reg>hierba</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>yndio</orig><reg>indio</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>yndios</orig><reg>indios</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Yndia</orig><reg>India</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>yngleses</orig><reg>ingleses</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>Ynglaterra</orig><reg>Inglaterra</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>ysla</orig><reg>isla</reg></choice>

<choice><orig>yslas</orig><reg>islas</reg></choice>

punctuation (these just for use by CM for now)

removing comma:
<choice><orig>,</orig><reg/></choice>

removing period:
<choice><orig>.</orig><reg/></choice>

removing two periods:
<choice><orig>..</orig><reg/></choice>

removing semicolon:
<choice><orig>;</orig><reg/></choice>

adding comma:
<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>

adding period:
<choice><orig/><reg>.</reg></choice>

replacing colon with period:
<choice><orig>:</orig><reg>.</reg></choice>

replacing colon with comma:
<choice><orig>:</orig><reg>,</reg></choice>

replacing colon with semicolon:
<choice><orig>:</orig><reg>;</reg></choice>

replacing semicolon with comma:
<choice><orig>;</orig><reg>,</reg></choice>

Modernizing location of marginal notes (for CM use only)

Relocating note to text:

<choice><orig>[note #]</orig><reg><note type=”authorial”>[contents of note]</note></reg></choice>

Suppressing original marginal note:

<note type=”authorial” place=”marginBottom”>(2.) Goma. Hista. cap. 85, y 88…(3.)</note> <note type=”authorial” place=”marginBottom”>Goma. cap. 63..</note></orig><reg/></choice> (etc.)

Semantic elements

<date when=”YYYY-MM-DD”></date>

<date when=”YYYY”></date>

<name type=”person”></name>

<name type=”topographical”></name>

<name type=”place”></name>

<name type=”ship”></name>

Declaration necessary for XML files to display in Boilerplate

<?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”custom.xsl”?>