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SAMPLE 1.1: The New Testament in Englysshe and Latyn (1538), fol. 261r. [STC 2815.]
Parallel texts
Latin abbreviations
Milestone
Foliation

SAMPLE 1.2: The Grete Herball (1529). [STC 13177.]
<FIGURE>
<TRAILER>
<MILESTONE>s
complex <DIV>s

SAMPLE 1.3: George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589), p. 148. [STC 20519.]
<Q>uotations containing verse <L>ines.
<HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">
<HEAD> not quite an <ARGUMENT>

SAMPLE 1.4: Edmund Coote, The Englishe Scholemaister (1596), p. 202. [STC 5711.]
Interlinear word-for-word gloss in contrasting typeface
<Q>uotations.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">

SAMPLE 1.5: Edmund Coote, The Englishe Scholemaister (1596), p. 209. [STC 5711.]
Glossary treated as <LIST>

SAMPLE 1.6: Jeremiah Wharton, The English Grammar (1654), pp. 53-54.
Complex braces rendered as <LIST>s and <TABLE>s
(Some rearrangement of original necessary.)
<NOTE PLACE="marg">

SAMPLE 1.7: Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), fol. 56v-57r.
<ARGUMENT>
<MILESTONE>
Astronomical symbols
<HI>

SAMPLE 1.8: Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), fol. 243r
Difficult poem with each line shared between two voices
<SPEAKER>

SAMPLE 1.9: The New Testament ["Geneva" version] (1607), p. [2].
<FIGURE>
<LIST> of paired items
Braces

SAMPLE 1.10: A. Cope, The historie of Anniball and Scipio (1544). [STC 5718.]
<DIV TYPE="poem">
<LG>s

SAMPLE 1.11: Xenophon's Treatise of Householde (1537), p. 11. [STC 26071.]
macrons, question marks
<P>s

SAMPLE 1.12: Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1674), p. 485.
<HI> when predominant typeface is italic.
<FRONT> matter of <TEXT> in a <GROUP>
<BYLINE>

SAMPLE 1.13: Abraham Fraunce, The Arcadian Rhetorike (1588). [STC 11338.]
<Q>s containing <BIBL>s
<Q>s in prose and verse

SAMPLE 1.14: Psalterium Dauidicum ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis (1555) [STC 16265.]
<TABLE>

SAMPLE 2.1: Sermons of M. John Caluin on the Epistles of S. Paule ... (1579), p. 659.
<ARGUMENT> used for scriptural passage at head of sermon
<MILESTONE>

SAMPLE 2.2: J. Gwynneth, A Declaration of the State Wherein all Heretikes doe Leade their Lives (1554). [STC 12558.]
<SP>eech and <SPEAKER> in nondramatic work.

SAMPLE 2.3: Philip Sidney, 'The Defence of Poesie,' in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1674), p. 540.
<BYLINE>
<HI>
<MILESTONE>

SAMPLE 2.4: R. Whittinton, Vulgaria (1521). [STC 25572.]
Line-by-line interlinear glossing
Foliation

SAMPLE 2.5: The Phoenix Nest (1593), p. 28
<LG>s with <HEAD>s
<BYLINE> at head of <DIV>

SAMPLE 2.6: The Prouerbes of Lope de Mendoza (1579) [STC 16809.]
<HI> in textura context
Verse & prose <DIV>s

SAMPLE 2.7: W. Bonde, The Pilgrimage of Perfection (1526). [STC 3277.]
Multiple <HEAD>s
(assigned to different <DIV>s)
(one treated as <ARGUMENT>)

SAMPLE 2.8: W. Musculus, Le temporysour (1550). [STC 18311.]
Nested <LIST>s
Braces.

SAMPLE 2.9: Liturgia Sacra (1551). [STC 16566.]
<LIST> of paired items.

SAMPLE 2.10: Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest 4th ed. (1653), p. 234.
Marginal note treated as <ARGUMENT>
Complex <NOTE>s spilling from margin to foot of page

SAMPLE 2.11: The Pilgrimage to Paradise p. 14.
Prose interspersed with verse
<NOTE PLACE="marg">
<HI> in predominantly textura context
Handwritten addition
Two-line <HEAD>

SAMPLE 2.12: W. Musculus, Commonplaces of Christian Religion (1563). [STC 18308.]
Superscripts
Quoted verse
Foliation
<NOTE PLACE="marg">

SAMPLE 3.1a: S. Gardiner, De vera obedientia (1553) [STC 11587].
<LIST>
Use of "+" in broken words

SAMPLE 3.1b: S. Gardiner, De vera obedientia (1553) [STC 11587].
virgules
a preface (in <FRONT>)
Use of "+" in broken words

SAMPLE 3.2: A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Man (1547) [STC 5168].
Table of contents as <LIST>
Roman type as <HI> in textura context

SAMPLE 3.3: Meredith Hanmer (tr.), The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ ... (1650), p. 215.
<LETTER>
<MILESTONE>s

SAMPLE 3.4: The New Testament ["Geneva" version] (1607), p. [109].
Three separate sets of marginal notes
Biblical verses treated as numbered <P>s
<ARGUMENT>s

SAMPLE 3.5: Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour (1531), fol. [238r].
Marginal notes
Quoted poetry (block quotation)

SAMPLE 3.6: Arthur Golding, tr., The Sermons of M. Iohn Calvin vpon ... Deuteronomie (1583), p. 159.
MILESTONEs in the margin
Passage commented on (optionally) treated as EPIGRAPH
Biblical verses treated as numbered paragraphs (<P>s)

SAMPLE 3.7: T. Wilcox A Short yet Sound Commentarie [on Proverbs] (1589), p. 5.
Biblical verse numbers in commentary treated merely as HI
Commentary text treated as a DIV rather than as an EPIGRAPH (because it is not simply quotation but quotation, paraphrase, and commentary mixed together)

SAMPLE 3.8: A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Men (1543) [STC 5168].
Preface resembling a letter given OPENER like a letter

SAMPLE 3.9: The Holy Bible ["Authorized" version] (1611).
Elaborate calendrical table
Braces (requiring interpretation)
Two confusing footnotes (requiring interpretation).

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	SAMPLE 1.1: The New Testament in Englysshe and Latyn (1538), fol. 261r. [STC 2815.]	Parallel texts Latin abbreviations Milestone Foliation
	SAMPLE 1.2: The Grete Herball (1529). [STC 13177.]	<FIGURE> <TRAILER> <MILESTONE>s complex <DIV>s
	SAMPLE 1.3: George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589), p. 148. [STC 20519.]	<Q>uotations containing verse <L>ines. <HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"> <HEAD> not quite an <ARGUMENT>
	SAMPLE 1.4: Edmund Coote, The Englishe Scholemaister (1596), p. 202. [STC 5711.]	Interlinear word-for-word gloss in contrasting typeface <Q>uotations. <NOTE PLACE="marg">
	SAMPLE 1.5: Edmund Coote, The Englishe Scholemaister (1596), p. 209. [STC 5711.]	Glossary treated as <LIST>
	SAMPLE 1.6: Jeremiah Wharton, The English Grammar (1654), pp. 53-54.	Complex braces rendered as <LIST>s and <TABLE>s (Some rearrangement of original necessary.) <NOTE PLACE="marg">
	SAMPLE 1.7: Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), fol. 56v-57r.	<ARGUMENT> <MILESTONE> Astronomical symbols <HI>
	SAMPLE 1.8: Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (1590), fol. 243r	Difficult poem with each line shared between two voices <SPEAKER>
	SAMPLE 1.9: The New Testament ["Geneva" version] (1607), p. [2].	<FIGURE> <LIST> of paired items Braces
	SAMPLE 1.10: A. Cope, The historie of Anniball and Scipio (1544). [STC 5718.]	<DIV TYPE="poem"> <LG>s
	SAMPLE 1.11: Xenophon's Treatise of Householde (1537), p. 11. [STC 26071.]	macrons, question marks <P>s
	SAMPLE 1.12: Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1674), p. 485.	<HI> when predominant typeface is italic. <FRONT> matter of <TEXT> in a <GROUP> <BYLINE>
	SAMPLE 1.13: Abraham Fraunce, The Arcadian Rhetorike (1588). [STC 11338.]	<Q>s containing <BIBL>s <Q>s in prose and verse
	SAMPLE 1.14: Psalterium Dauidicum ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis (1555) [STC 16265.]	<TABLE>
	SAMPLE 2.1: Sermons of M. John Caluin on the Epistles of S. Paule ... (1579), p. 659.	<ARGUMENT> used for scriptural passage at head of sermon <MILESTONE>
	SAMPLE 2.2: J. Gwynneth, A Declaration of the State Wherein all Heretikes doe Leade their Lives (1554). [STC 12558.]	<SP>eech and <SPEAKER> in nondramatic work.
	SAMPLE 2.3: Philip Sidney, 'The Defence of Poesie,' in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1674), p. 540.	<BYLINE> <HI> <MILESTONE>
	SAMPLE 2.4: R. Whittinton, Vulgaria (1521). [STC 25572.]	Line-by-line interlinear glossing Foliation
	SAMPLE 2.5: The Phoenix Nest (1593), p. 28	<LG>s with <HEAD>s <BYLINE> at head of <DIV>
	SAMPLE 2.6: The Prouerbes of Lope de Mendoza (1579) [STC 16809.]	<HI> in textura context Verse & prose <DIV>s
	SAMPLE 2.7: W. Bonde, The Pilgrimage of Perfection (1526). [STC 3277.]	Multiple <HEAD>s (assigned to different <DIV>s) (one treated as <ARGUMENT>)
	SAMPLE 2.8: W. Musculus, Le temporysour (1550). [STC 18311.]	Nested <LIST>s Braces.
	SAMPLE 2.9: Liturgia Sacra (1551). [STC 16566.]	<LIST> of paired items.
	SAMPLE 2.10: Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest 4th ed. (1653), p. 234.	Marginal note treated as <ARGUMENT> Complex <NOTE>s spilling from margin to foot of page
	SAMPLE 2.11: The Pilgrimage to Paradise p. 14.	Prose interspersed with verse <NOTE PLACE="marg"> <HI> in predominantly textura context Handwritten addition Two-line <HEAD>
	SAMPLE 2.12: W. Musculus, Commonplaces of Christian Religion (1563). [STC 18308.]	Superscripts Quoted verse Foliation <NOTE PLACE="marg">
	SAMPLE 3.1a: S. Gardiner, De vera obedientia (1553) [STC 11587].	<LIST> Use of "+" in broken words
	SAMPLE 3.1b: S. Gardiner, De vera obedientia (1553) [STC 11587].	virgules a preface (in <FRONT>) Use of "+" in broken words
	SAMPLE 3.2: A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Man (1547) [STC 5168].	Table of contents as <LIST> Roman type as <HI> in textura context
	SAMPLE 3.3: Meredith Hanmer (tr.), The Ancient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ ... (1650), p. 215.	<LETTER> <MILESTONE>s
	SAMPLE 3.4: The New Testament ["Geneva" version] (1607), p. [109].	Three separate sets of marginal notes Biblical verses treated as numbered <P>s <ARGUMENT>s
	SAMPLE 3.5: Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour (1531), fol. [238r].	Marginal notes Quoted poetry (block quotation)
	SAMPLE 3.6: Arthur Golding, tr., The Sermons of M. Iohn Calvin vpon ... Deuteronomie (1583), p. 159.	MILESTONEs in the margin Passage commented on (optionally) treated as EPIGRAPH Biblical verses treated as numbered paragraphs (<P>s)
	SAMPLE 3.7: T. Wilcox A Short yet Sound Commentarie [on Proverbs] (1589), p. 5.	Biblical verse numbers in commentary treated merely as HI Commentary text treated as a DIV rather than as an EPIGRAPH (because it is not simply quotation but quotation, paraphrase, and commentary mixed together)
	SAMPLE 3.8: A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Men (1543) [STC 5168].	Preface resembling a letter given OPENER like a letter
	SAMPLE 3.9: The Holy Bible ["Authorized" version] (1611).	Elaborate calendrical table Braces (requiring interpretation) Two confusing footnotes (requiring interpretation).