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You may search for any or all parts of an author's name (given name, surname) in the canonical form as established by modern scholarship. Names of authors who wrote in the language of the bibliography are given in the modern form in that language. Names of authors who wrote in another language are given in the form as found in the original language. For example, St. Gregory the Great will be found under the Latin form of his name, Sanctus Gregorius Magnus.
Because each of the three bibliographies has been prepared by a different team of scholars, variations like this, which reflect differing points of view and emphasis, will occur. While cross-language authority files would be highly desirable, we have not attempted to impose them.
Title searches are based on the uniform title of a work (as established by modern scholarship), variant titles by which the work is known (as found in the manuscripts or editions or in modern scholarship), and translated titles (if the uniform title is in another language, e.g., Latin). Thus in BETA one may search for Razón amor or Siesta abril and find the same work (BETA texid 1155); while Diálogos or Dialogorum will both find the Dialogues of St. Gregory (BETA texid 1360). (A number of common prepositions have been eliminated from the list of index terms.)
Modern orthography is used for the uniform title, variant titles, and translated titles; although old spelling forms, as found in the original manuscript or printed editions, are indexed along with the modernized titles. A small number of works generally known by the medieval form of their title must be sought under that form. Thus in BETA the General estoria of Alfonso X will be found under that title, not General historia, the modern form.
If a text has no title, as is the case for most lyric poetry, it may be located by doing a Key Word search on its incipit or explicit. Thus a search for "amor" in BETA will find Juan del Encina's "Todos servid al amor" (texid 3691). It should be noted that only BITAGAP has a complete listing of all lyric poetry. This is a major lacuna in both BETA and BITECA; although Brian Dutton's Cancionero del siglo XV provides a more than adequate substitute in the case of lyric poetry in Spanish, while the Repertori mètric of Perarnau now performs a similar function for Catalan poetry.
As with titles, incipits and explicits are given in modern orthography in the data drawn from the UNIFORM.TITLE table; while those transcribed in ANALYTIC from a given manuscript or printed edition are given in the original spelling. It is frequently the case that no incipit or explicit is listed in UNIFORM.TITLE because of discrepancies found among the specific copies of that text in ANALYTIC. Thus a user would be well advised to search for "dezir or decir" in order to find all incipits containing that word.
If you know the shelfmark or call number of a specific manuscript in a given library, enter it in the KEY WORDS OR NUMBERS search box. This is perhaps the quickest way to find a specific known manuscript. You can also search for former shelfmarks in the same library or the shelfmarks of previous owners. Thus in BETA a search for "10237", "Ii-79", or "II-M-5" will all find "Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional, MS 10237 (General estoria, pt. II)", whose former shelfmark was "Ii-79" and which had the shelfmark "II-M-5" in the collection of the Duque de Osuna.
Users familiar with the Advanced Revelation version of PhiloBiblon may search for specific texts and manuscripts by entering their texid (texts) or manid (manuscripts and printed editions) in the appropriate search box and limiting the search to the relevant bibliography (BETA, BITAGAP, BITECA). It is important to specify the bibliography, since the same texid or manid may be repeated in the different bibliographies (see the examples below). Since identification numbers for individual records are assigned sequentially, as texts or manuscripts are entered in the various bibliographies, there is no relationship between a given texid in one bibliography and the same texid in another. Thus texid 1236 corresponds to the Libro de moralidades in BETA, to the Crónica de D. Dinis in BITAGAP, and to the Ordinacions dels paers i prohoms de la vila d'Ager in BITECA.
With the exception of a small list of common words (stop words), the entire text of the three bibliographies has been indexed and may be searched via the Key Word search box. All materials taken from the Ms/Ed and UNIFORM.TITLE tables are given in modern orthography. Textual materials cited directly from the original sources in ANALYTIC follow the original spelling. Use the modern spelling forms to gain access to the old spelling originals, or use boolean OR to find both forms ("dezir or decir").
Although much of the data in all three biblographies is based on first-hand examination of the originals, secondary bibliography has been cited extensively. Most texts and manuscripts include a list of the bibliographical sources upon which their description is based in abbreviated form. In order to see the complete bibliographical citation, simply click on the highlighted "bibid" number to jump to the Secondary Bibliography files.
Searches are not case sensitive but are sensitive to the distinction between characters with and without diacritics. Thus a Key Word search for "Colón" will not find "Colon" and vice versa. To search for both forms a boolean "or" must be used: "Colón or Colon".
Characters with diacritics may be entered in any of several ways. Perhaps the easiest is to configure your keyboard at the system level. The procedure to be followed will vary, depending on whether you are using a Macintosh, DOS, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95 system. If you do not wish to configure your system, you can enter characters with diacritics individually. Again, methods vary depending on whether you are using Macintosh, DOS, or Windows systems. For detailed instructions, see The PhiloBiblon HELP Page.
Like most Web-based search engines, the one used in PhiloBiblon (SWISH) brings up a sorted list of documents containing the search term(s). The information given about each document in the list includes:
Thus: BETA Manid 1013: San Lorenzo de El Escorial: Monasterio, Y.II.11 3000 bytes
The user can jump to the complete record of a given manuscript or printed edition by clicking anywhere on the short listing.The complete record describes a given manuscript or printed edition, beginning with an external (physical) description (including provenience), followed by an internal description, i.e., a detailed list of its contents in folio order. In addition, for printed editions, a list of known copies is also included as part of the external description.
The list of texts gives basic information about a given text, taken from the UNIFORM.TITLE table (texid, author's name, title, date of composition, persons associated with the text, such as the dedicatee, incipit and explicit) and all in modernized orthography, followed by information about the particular copy of the text in the relevant manuscript or printed edition (cnum, title, incipit, and explicit as found in the manuscript or edition), in the original orthography.
In most cases it will be relatively simple to locate the search term within the complete record by scrolling down through it until the highlighted term appears. Some records, however, are extremely long (e.g., the Cancioneiro geral [BITAGAP manid 1013]). In these cases, use the "Find" feature of your Web browser to locate the search term(s) within the complete record.
It is not (yet) possible to print out or save as a file the complete set of documents containing a given search term. You must open each document and print or save it from within, using the standard "Print" or "Save as..." features of your web browser.