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Sample: Plimpton MS 099


This file displays part of an apocryphal letter from Pontius Pilate to Caesar (Columbia Univ., Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton MS 99, f. iv, verso); it includes an opener, closer, and dateline. If you have installed the ds3.exe package, you can use NoteTab to open the XML file that underlies the material below (plimpton099.xml).


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<teiHeader date.created="2002-08-29" creator="skg">
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>A Machine-readable Transcription of an Apocryphal Letter of Pontius Pilate</title>
<respStmt>
<resp>Transcribed and marked up by</resp> <name>Sharon K. Goetz</name>
</respStmt></titleStmt>

<publicationStmt>
<authority>Digital Scriptorium</authority>
<availability status="unknown"><p>Contact Digital Scriptorium for more information.</p></availability>
<date>2002</date>
</publicationStmt>

<sourceDesc>
<bibl>
<msIdentifier>
<region>New York</region>
<settlement>New York</settlement>
<institution>Columbia University</institution>
<repository>Rare Book and Manuscript Library</repository>
<collection>Plimpton</collection>
<idno>MS 099</idno>
</msIdentifier></bibl>
</sourceDesc></fileDesc>

<encodingDesc>
<editorialDecl>
<p>Abbreviations are expanded using tags but not assigned a type. Long s is recorded using a character entity, and end-of-line hairlines are marked by dashes.</p>
</editorialDecl>
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<text>
<body>
<div1>
<pb n="iv,verso"/>
<lb/><opener><ptr target="n1"/>Ontiu&longs; pylatu&longs; Iudee p<expan>ro</expan>c<expan>ur</expan>ator. <salute>Tyberio Ce&longs;ari i<expan>m</expan>p<expan>er</expan>atori.
<lb/>S<expan>alutem</expan>.p<expan>lurimam</expan>.d<expan>icit</expan>.</salute></opener><p>De ye&longs;u cri&longs;to que<expan>m</expan> tibi plane po&longs;tremo mei&longs;
<lb/>delarauera<expan>m</expan>. nutu tande<expan>m</expan> pop<expan>u</expan>li acerbu<expan>m</expan> me q<expan>ua</expan>&longs;i i<expan>n</expan>uito et
<lb/>&longs;ubnite<expan>n</expan>te &longs;uppliciu<expan>m</expan> &longs;u<expan>m</expan>ptu<expan>m</expan> e<expan>&longs;t</expan>. Viru<expan>m</expan> ercle ita piu<expan>m</expan> ita &longs;eue<expan>rum</expan>
<lb/>nulla eta&longs; ante h<expan>ab</expan>uit nec h<expan>ab</expan>itura e<expan>&longs;t</expan>. <reg orig="Sz">Sed</reg> miriu&longs; extitit

<lb/>...

<lb/>aductu&longs; pro uirib<expan>us</expan> no<expan>n</expan> re&longs;titeri<expan>m</expan>. &longs;a<expan>n</expan>g<expan>ui</expan>ne<expan>m</expan> iu&longs;tu<expan>m</expan> toti<expan>us</expan> acu&longs;a-
<lb/>tio<expan>n</expan>i&longs; i<expan>m</expan>mune<expan>m</expan>. Veru<expan>m</expan> ho<expan>m</expan>in<expan>um</expan> malig<expan>ni</expan>tate iniq<expan>ue</expan> i<expan>n</expan> eo<expan>rum</expan> t<expan>ame</expan>n ut &longs;c<expan>ri</expan>p-
<lb/>ture i<expan>n</expan>terp<expan>re</expan>tant<expan>ur</expan> exiciu<expan>m</expan> uenu<expan>n</expan>dari et pati.</p><closer>Vale.</closer><dateline><date>V. k<expan>a</expan>l<expan>end</expan>a&longs; ap<expan>ri</expan>l<expan>is</expan>.</date></dateline>
</div1>

<div1>
<p id="n1">Space is left here for a 3-line initial P.</p>
</div1>
</body></text>
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