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 "corpus": "pearl-poet",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-19/01",
 "title": "The Pearl Poet — Pearl, Cleanness and Patience (British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x): Morris's First Edition, the Manuscript in Facsimile, and Gollancz's Pearl",
 "edition": "Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century: The Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, ed. Richard Morris (Early English Text Society, o.s. 1; 1864, the Gutenberg text from the second edition of 1869); Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, reproduced in facsimile from the unique MS. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum, introduction by Israel Gollancz (Early English Text Society, o.s. 162; Oxford University Press, 1923) — the manuscript is the witness; the scanner's text layer is legible in the introduction and noise over the manuscript pages; Pearl, an English Poem of the Fourteenth Century, edited with a modern rendering by Israel Gollancz (London: David Nutt, 1891) — Cornell University Library copy",
 "language": "enm",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the poems are anonymous, of the late fourteenth century. Morris's edition (Early English Text Society, 1864; second edition 1869), Gollancz's Pearl (London: David Nutt, 1891) and the EETS facsimile of the manuscript (Oxford University Press for the EETS, 1923) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence; Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-18",
 "origin": {
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    "source": "Project Gutenberg",
    "ebook": "30282",
    "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30282"
   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "30081003489469",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/30081003489469",
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   },
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    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "cu31924013116284",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/cu31924013116284",
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  "fetched": "2026-10-18",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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  "units": "one text file per work",
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    "work": "Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century: The Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, ed. Richard Morris (Early English Text Society, o.s. 1; 1864, the Gutenberg text from the second edition of 1869)",
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    "slug": "cotton-nero-ax-facsimile-1923",
    "work": "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, reproduced in facsimile from the unique MS. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum, introduction by Israel Gollancz (Early English Text Society, o.s. 162; Oxford University Press, 1923) — the manuscript is the witness; the scanner's text layer is legible in the introduction and noise over the manuscript pages",
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    "slug": "pearl-gollancz-1891",
    "work": "Pearl, an English Poem of the Fourteenth Century, edited with a modern rendering by Israel Gollancz (London: David Nutt, 1891) — Cornell University Library copy",
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 "normalization": "Project Gutenberg texts stripped at the START/END markers, CRLF to LF, otherwise unaltered; Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt) — the scan under original/<identifier>/ is the witness; Ganjoor JSON as fetched, rendered one couplet per line, hemistichs joined by ' / ', section titles marked '=== title ==='.",
 "scope": "Pearl, Cleanness and Patience in their first edition, with the manuscript itself in the 1923 facsimile, and Gollancz's Pearl of 1891 with its modern rendering on the facing page. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the fourth poem of Cotton Nero A.x, is in the facsimile and not otherwise seated in this pass: QUEUED (Morris, EETS o.s. 4, 1864, is public domain). Modern editions (Gordon 1953; Andrew and Waldron) are in copyright and are not seated. St. Erkenwald, sometimes given to the same poet, is in another manuscript and is not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Pearl, line 1 — 'Perle plesau{n}te to prynces paye' (the expansions of the manuscript's abbreviations, italic in Morris, are marked with braces in the Gutenberg text)",
  "Pearl, line 1212, the last — 'Ande precio{us} perleȝ vnto his pay. Amen. Amen.'",
  "Gollancz 1891, line 1 — the text layer reads 'ERLE plesaunte to prynces paye' (the drop capital is lost; the scan is the witness)"
 ],
 "loci_not_found": [],
 "lines_total": 37208,
 "why_seated": "The poem whose name the archive's own Pearl and Other Poems (2014) carries, seated so the name has its source on the shelf. A father who has lost a pearl in the grass, his daughter, dead before she was two, falls asleep where it fell and sees her across a river in the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21: the archive's Revelation line meets it there.",
 "spine": "Pearl",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-18: \"did we ever seat the medieval pearl poem in the originals library?\" — \"rumi, too - and gibran's the prophet if its public domain\" — \"and blake\" — \"yes, original language where available always, the prophet full, and lets do illuminated books as text to start. we can group those all in a single ea-corpora deposit, refer to examples, and they also do to alexanarch data and get spines and cards on traininglayerliterature's originals library\"."
}