This readme file was generated on 15/07/2025 by Joanna Tucker # GENERAL INFORMATION * Title of Dataset: The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey: A Digital Edition ## Author/Principal Investigator Information Name: Joanna Tucker ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-9492 Institution: University of Glasgow Address: Room 401, 9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QH Email: Joanna.Tucker@glasgow.ac.uk ## Author/Associate or Co-investigator Information Name: Luca Guariento Institution: University of Glasgow Address: 6 University Gardens, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8QH Email: Luca.Guariento@glasgow.ac.uk * Date of data collection: 1 January 2023 - 15 July 2025 * Geographic location of data collection: Glasgow, UK * Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project 'Scribal autonomy in multi-scribe manuscripts: digital visualisations through the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey' (Early Career Research, Development & Engagement Fellowship, Grant ref. AH/W010216/1), which ran from 1 January 2023 – 31 August 2026. # SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION * Links to publications that cite or use the data: https://melrosechronicle.gla.ac.uk * Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk * Recommended citation for this dataset: _The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey: a digital edition_, ed. Joanna Tucker with Luca Guariento and Vivien Williams, incorporating text and translation by Dauvit Broun and John Reuben Davies (Glasgow, 2025), (accessed on [date]). # DATA & FILE OVERVIEW ## File List: * faustina_lat.xml (a transcription, with xml mark-up, of the Latin text of the Chronicle in manuscript London, BL Cotton MS Faustina B. IX, ff. 2–75) * faustina_eng.xml (an English translation, with xml mark-up, of the Latin text of the Chronicle in manuscript London, BL Cotton MS Faustina B. IX, ff. 2–75) * julius_lat.xml (a summary and transcription, with xml mark-up, of the Latin text of the Chronicle in manuscript London, BL Cotton MS Julius B. XIII, ff. 2–47) * julius_eng.xml (a summary and English translation, with xml mark-up, of the Latin text of the Chronicle in manuscript London, BL Cotton MS Julius B. XIII, ff. 2–47) # METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION ## Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: The transcription and translation of the Chronicle were produced collaboratively across a long period (from 2002 to 2025) by Dauvit Broun, John Ruben Davies and Joanna Tucker (using Microsoft Word). The XML mark-up was then undertaken by Vivien Williams, Luca Guariento and Joanna Tucker from 2023–2025. The mark-up of the text and its online publication at https://melrosechronicle.gla.ac.uk was funded by an Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project, 'Scribal autonomy in multi-scribe manuscripts: digital visualisations through the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey' (Early Career Research, Development & Engagement Fellowship, Grant ref. AH/W010216/1), which ran from 1 January 2023 – 31 August 2026. The XML follows the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards.