Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum (was re: Hubert de Burgh)

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Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum (was re: Hubert de Burgh)

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 03 jan 2006 21:39:29

Will Johnson wrote:

In a message dated 1/3/06 12:04:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, leesmyth@cox.net
writes:

Who wrote the foundation history and when was that
history written. It is not a primary source, by definition.

To me it doesn't appear to be a foundation history so much as a
transliteration of a document from a cartulary. (Is that the right
way to express it?) I note, that the Dugdale volumes are particularly
difficult to work with because of the utterly bizarre way they had
been scanned. Some are one, two or three pages, some are 40 to 60
pages in each pdf. Makes no proper sense, and difficult to use the
Table of Contents, since the "clumps" of pdfs don't appear to
follow any particular pattern.

The particular pdf this one is in, is something like 10 Megabytes in
size. Not very user friendly. However since Dugdale is out-of-copyright,
maybe someone will re-set these in a more useful way. Of course, its
useful that they are on the internet whatsoever, but everything could
stand a little improvement.

I agree; the matrix Dugdale is a not-very-useful presentation of an
important work. A while ago I set out to page-suck the whole thing &
reorganize it into whole-volume, bookmarked pdfs for my own use (as I've
done with some of the important reference works on Gallica or the early
english books online database), but the effort stalled. I wouldn't have
the space to put such a doctored version online, anyway. But if there's
interest I could try to cobble together such a version.

The first edition of Dugdale's monasticon is available from EEBO, but it
is the 19th-century expansion that has so much more and is frequently
cited.

Nat Taylor

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