I just finished photocopying John Mason Neale's Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences for conversion to electronic text, and I've started a new category, Etext, to record the process. I'm using the 1867 third edition of the book "with very numerous additions and corrections" printed by Joseph Masters, Aldersgate, London. Father Neale died in 1866, so this is the final and definitive edition.
It's a very small book - about 5 inches by 3 inches - so I've enlarged the pages to 150%. Enlarging thins out the type so I've also darkened the image hoping to make the type more legible to the ocr software. Another possible problem to tackle later in the process: the pages aren't perfectly aligned horizontally and vertically on the photocopied sheets since I couldn't disassemble the book. After I scan the copies, I'll see whether straightening them electronically makes a difference. The software has a "de-skew" function, so this may also be a good test of that.
Now to return the book in one piece and begin scanning the photocopies. Meanwhile, I've downloaded netpbm to convert my scans to pgm/pbm files, which are the only file formats recognized by Clara.
Posted by billw at July 26, 2003 01:33 AMDoes the book include the melodies for the hymns, or is it words only?
Posted by: Don at August 1, 2003 06:56 PMLike an old Episcopal hymnal I once found, it's words only (and that surprised the heck out of me when I found it). Father Neale was kind enough to either maintain the original meter, to which various chants can be fitted, or to translate into various well-known meters used by many hymn tunes.
am looking for full translation of Neale's Lucis Largitor Splendide. Can only find 3 translated stanzas. Any ideas where to look on web?
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