This project encodes various chapbook, picture book, and other versions of the medieval romance story, Valentine and Orson, using the extensible markup language for detailed presentation of the text. The goal of the project is to create a digital archive of available versions of this story with project specific encoding guidelines created in accordance with the Text Encoding Initiative P5 Guidelines. The editions and project guidelines are available on the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service and GitHub repositories.
Texts for this project were selected from the available collections at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Rare Books and Special Collections at McGill University and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature George A. Smathers Libraries at University of Florida.
Text is presented with no corrections or normalizations to spellings or printing errors.
Punctuation spacing has been normalized in cases where excessive spacing exists.
Original quotation marks or lack thereof have been preserved. In all cases of spoken dialogue the “said” tag was used.
Hyphenation for line breaks and page breaks has not been retained. All other hyphenation and dash usage has been retained.
Texts are presented with limited interpretive mark up. Only the main body of the story has been encoded. Images for pages not encoded are provided. See descriptive outline below.