Datasets:
tcp_id stringlengths 6 6 | collection stringclasses 1
value | title stringlengths 5 1.23k | author stringlengths 5 135 ⌀ | date stringlengths 4 83 | year int64 1.64k 1.81k ⌀ | language stringclasses 2
values | eebo_phase int32 | ecco_proofed int32 | source stringclasses 2
values | p4_reason stringclasses 1
value | source_file stringlengths 10 25 | source_sha256 stringlengths 64 64 | p5_downloaded_from stringclasses 1
value | ota_handle stringlengths 19 19 | licence stringclasses 1
value | in_vintage_v2 bool 2
classes | n_gaps int64 0 51.6k | n_notes int64 0 5.49k | n_figures int64 0 66 | n_expansions int64 0 75 | n_choice_abbr int64 0 14 | n_fw_dropped int64 0 0 | n_milestone_labels int64 0 3.07k | invariant_ok bool 1
class | v1_ok bool 1
class | v1_tokens_changed int64 0 174k | v1_sup_expanded int64 0 93 | v1_sup_inline int64 0 397 | v1_choice_expanded int64 0 14 | v1_stroke_resolved int64 0 131 | v1_stroke_kept int64 0 30 | v1_long_s int64 0 185k | v1_vv int64 0 232 | text stringlengths 907 6.62M | n_chars int64 907 6.62M | n_words int64 151 1.2M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N00001 | EVANS | "The vvhole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is prefixed a dis(...TRUNCATED) | Cotton, John, 1584-1652. | Imprinted 1640. | 1,640 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00001.xml | 3016f74bcce71ffa67f7b87e55db64ffcd54a28ad29899251582d2e784a6df7e | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00001 | CC0-1.0 | true | 1,032 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,345 | true | true | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 1 | "---\ntitle: \"The vvhole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre. ; Whereunto is (...TRUNCATED) | 295,503 | 55,388 |
N00003 | EVANS | "A declaration of former passages and proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansets, with th(...TRUNCATED) | Winthrop, John, 1588-1649. | 1645] | 1,645 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00003.xml | c700479bb5711c6c50f1e223ccbad4716d9c9fe4ce9b507cf190689aacddba35 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00003 | CC0-1.0 | true | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"A declaration of former passages and proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowga(...TRUNCATED) | 17,337 | 2,840 |
N00008 | EVANS | "A platform of church discipline gathered out of the Word of God: and agreed upon by the elders: and(...TRUNCATED) | Cambridge Synod | anno dom: 1649. | 1,649 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00008.xml | 819b63214959b272814974cbe5433e3a377b942859ebbe8b92cdc0bbf18281d9 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00008 | CC0-1.0 | true | 778 | 202 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 30 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"A platform of church discipline gathered out of the Word of God: and agreed upon by t(...TRUNCATED) | 103,412 | 18,312 |
N00010 | EVANS | "The book of the general lauues and libertyes concerning the inhabitants of the Massachusets collect(...TRUNCATED) | Massachusetts. | [1648] | 1,648 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00010.xml | de7572c92aaadc940b71fb19dbc0f2ab91ff677e5e9b6979cb785b8dd441e0e4 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00010 | CC0-1.0 | true | 1,129 | 585 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 10 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"The book of the general lauues and libertyes concerning the inhabitants of the Massac(...TRUNCATED) | 277,453 | 48,310 |
N00012 | EVANS | "The psalms hymns and spiritual songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully translated into Engli(...TRUNCATED) | Dunster, Henry, 1609-1659? | 1651. | 1,651 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00012.xml | f27ce432edefcd6848bb66f031d49c7395252cd7b40b62b7d50366e3b12f68c6 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00012 | CC0-1.0 | true | 3,377 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 134 | 93 | 21 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | "---\ntitle: \"The psalms hymns and spiritual songs of the Old and New Testament, faithfully transla(...TRUNCATED) | 333,155 | 65,227 |
N00013 | EVANS | "The summe of certain sermons upon Genes: 15. 6. VVherein not only the docrine [sic] of justificatio(...TRUNCATED) | Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. | 1652. | 1,652 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00013.xml | a8e8b026915c47088df9c7005d286f301a1e12c82422b0894494049f6cc116c9 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00013 | CC0-1.0 | true | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"The summe of certain sermons upon Genes: 15. 6. VVherein not only the docrine [sic] o(...TRUNCATED) | 137,713 | 25,755 |
N00015 | EVANS | "Gods mercy, shewed to his people in giving them a faithful ministry and schooles of learning for th(...TRUNCATED) | Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672. | 1655. | 1,655 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00015.xml | 3c4e9dbb676a74cb641f5381d255859be498768769c6371fa0528bcda5ada96e | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00015 | CC0-1.0 | true | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"Gods mercy, shewed to his people in giving them a faithful ministry and schooles of l(...TRUNCATED) | 81,003 | 14,459 |
N00020 | EVANS | "The watering of the olive plant in Christs garden. Or A short catechism for the first entrance of o(...TRUNCATED) | Fiske, John, 1601-1677. | 1657. | 1,657 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00020.xml | bd17ddec29c7aa7b5a8108d66b49a14b41c1e83e433b15d91a67a970f6016507 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00020 | CC0-1.0 | true | 259 | 434 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | true | true | 75 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 35 | "---\ntitle: \"The watering of the olive plant in Christs garden. Or A short catechism for the first(...TRUNCATED) | 106,372 | 20,428 |
N00021 | EVANS | "A farewel exhortation to the church and people of Dorchester in New-England. But not unusefull to a(...TRUNCATED) | Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. | 1657. | 1,657 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00021.xml | 5e2b10c9d6bfda6e5452d82f8d2ab0aa5b43f8ef5190fcd9d46df58fd6a9425f | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00021 | CC0-1.0 | true | 396 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"A farewel exhortation to the church and people of Dorchester in New-England. But not (...TRUNCATED) | 82,337 | 15,452 |
N00022 | EVANS | "A copy of verses made by that Reverend man of God Mr. John Wilson, Pastor to the First Church in Bo(...TRUNCATED) | Wilson, John, 1588-1667. | 1658?] | 1,658 | eng | null | null | ota_p5 | null | N00022.xml | cca0fcaeaf9ba47d0c60a1f2cf81150f5c5899b0fd05a01117472aad954d5c64 | llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk | 20.500.14106/N00022 | CC0-1.0 | true | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | true | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | "---\ntitle: \"A copy of verses made by that Reverend man of God Mr. John Wilson, Pastor to the Firs(...TRUNCATED) | 2,486 | 477 |
Evans-TCP (Markdown)
Evans Early American Imprints, Text Creation Partnership: hand-keyed transcriptions of books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in America before 1801, from Charles Evans's American Bibliography. Converted from TCP's XML to Markdown. 5,012 texts, 1640-1810, about 104 million words.
TCP keyed each text twice and proofed it to a 99.995% accuracy target. Characters the keyers could not read are marked, never guessed.
Text
The text is lightly normalised from the XML. Every change is decided by an XML tag or by the corpus itself:
- superscript abbreviations tagged in the XML are expanded on whole tokens (y^e the, y^t that, w^t with, y^u you, w^ch which ...), other superscripts are printed inline (Mr, St)
- TCP's own
<expan>is used for<choice>abbreviations - an abbreviation stroke after a vowel becomes n/m only when the rest of the corpus decides: the candidate occurs at least 20 times and 20x more often than the other (frō becomes from, vpō becomes vpon; thē stays, since then and them are both common)
- long s becomes s, vv becomes w
There is no spelling modernisation. u/v and i/j are as printed.
Gaps use TCP's own markers: • per illegible letter, 〈◊〉 for an illegible word, 〈…〉 for
longer, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 〈♫〉, 〈1 page missing〉 ... Nothing is filled in.
Layout: # headings by division, paragraphs, verse one line per line, **Speaker** in drama,
[Illustration: TCP's figure description], notes as Markdown footnotes [^n] at the end. Page
breaks, running heads and catchwords are dropped. Each text starts with a short YAML front
matter and a title line.
Sources
The Oxford TEI P5 edition (Oxford Text Archive, hdl 20.500.14106) is used when it is complete.
For 5 texts where the P5 conversion lost paragraph text around figures (at least 47 consecutive
P4 words absent from P5), the text comes from TCP's P4 XML bulk release. source, p4_reason,
source_file, source_sha256 and ota_handle are on every row.
| source | reason | books | words |
|---|---|---|---|
| ota_p5 | - | 5,007 | 103,509,245 |
| tcp_p4 | p5_incomplete | 5 | 381,176 |
Completeness
This is the whole collection: the same 5,012 IDs as OTA's Evans collection, TCP's catalogue
(TCP.csv, all 5,012 marked free) and TCP's P4 bulk release. TCP's project page says 4,977 texts
were keyed and encoded. That figure is lower than every list TCP and OTA publish, and no list
gives 4,977.
Checks
Details are in verification.json.
- IDs compared with OTA's Evans collection (5,012 records, harvested over OAI-PMH),
TCP.csv, the P4 bulk release and the independent copy in uwgraphics/VEP2_TCP_SimpleText. All five sets are identical. - All 5,012 books compared with TCP's P4 XML: 99.996% of the P4 words are in the text, no book is under 97.6%, and titles match for every book. The difference is the expansions listed above.
- Every book passes the converter's own two checks:
invariant_ok(the letters and digits equal the source XML, with gaps, footnotes and added layout accounted for) andv1_ok(every changed word is a logged substitution).
Dates
date is the imprint date from the TCP header, as printed (1771., [178-?] ...). year is the
certain bracketed year if there is one, else the first year. Two books are dated after 1800:
N18073 (1810?]) and N33096 (between 1801 and 1820]).
3 books whose printed date has no Arabic year take year from TCP's catalogue: N09401
(MDCCLXXI., 1771), N28830 (M,DCCC., 1800), N33375 ([178-?], 1780). One book, N20222
(179-?]), stays undated.
Word counts
n_words uses our own tokeniser and sums to 103,890,421. Other tokenisers give a slightly
different number. See STATS.md for counts by source, decade and language.
Official sources
To check the numbers above:
- TCP, Evans-TCP: https://www.textpartnership.net/pages/evans-tcp.html
- Oxford Text Archive, Evans collection, OAI-PMH set
hdl_20.500.14106_8: https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=hdl_20.500.14106_8. Single texts are athttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/<TCP id>. - TCP catalogue: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts (
TCP.csv, IDs starting withN) - An independent copy, used as a cross-check: https://github.com/uwgraphics/VEP2_TCP_SimpleText
(folders
N0/toN3/)
Licence and credit
TCP texts are CC0 1.0. Please credit the Text Creation Partnership (University of Michigan, University of Oxford and the libraries that funded it). Page images belong to Readex and are not included.
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