C-07

C-01

C-33

C-18(frag)

C-20

C-24

C-29

C-33

How the Bodleian Library Frankenstein ms notebooks  align as collation units to the full novel as published in 1818

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<app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">that I beheld &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8429__Start"/&gt;the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">that I beheld the </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">frame on whic&lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8429__End"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">accomplishment of </rdg>
    </app>
    <app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">my </rdg>
    </app>

1818

MS-notebook

1823

Thomas copy

1831

Creating collation units: Find where all editions agree, and cut into portions for computer-aided comparison

Alignment / "chunking" pt:

<div>........</div>

<p>........</p>

<surface>...</surface>

<line>........</line>

<add>........</add>

<del>........</del>

Flattening Elements... 

<milestone type="div" loc="1818_chap1" ana="start"/>

........

<milestone type="div" loc="1818_chap1" ana="end"/>

...running stream <milestone ana="start"
/> stream of <lb ana="start"/> sequential  text <lb ana="end"> nodes
 to collate with markup sign-posts</milestone ana="end"> along the way...
...Another running stream <milestone ana="start"
/> stream of <del ana="start"/> sequential  text <del ana="end"> nodes
 to collate with markup sign-posts</milestone ana="end"> along the way...

Weaving trees . . . 


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        <rdg wit="#f1818">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">that I beheld the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">that I beheld &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8429__Start"/&gt;the </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">that I beheld the </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">accomplishment of </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">frame on whic&lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8429__End"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">accomplishment of </rdg>
    </app>
    <app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">my </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">man completeed,. 
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__Start"/&gt;And
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__End"/&gt;&lt;lb n="c56-0045__main__4"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">toils. </rdg>
    </app>
 <app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">my </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">man completeed,. 
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__Start"/&gt;And
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__End"/&gt;&lt;lb n="c56-0045__main__4"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">toils. </rdg>
    </app>
 <app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">my </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">man completeed,. 
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__Start"/&gt;And
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__End"/&gt;&lt;lb n="c56-0045__main__4"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">toils. </rdg>
    </app>
 <app type="invariant">
        <rdg wit="#f1818">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">my </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">my </rdg>
    </app>
    <app>
        <rdg wit="#f1818">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1823">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#f1831">toils. </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fMS">man completeed,. 
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__Start"/&gt;And
        &lt;del loc="c56-0045__main__d1e8443__End"/&gt;&lt;lb n="c56-0045__main__4"/&gt; </rdg>
        <rdg wit="#fThomas">toils. </rdg>
    </app>
 <app type="invariant">
               <rdg wit="#f1818">black </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1823">black </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1831">black </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fMS">black </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fThomas">black </rdg>
            </app>
            <app>
               <rdg wit="#f1818">lips.
&lt;p eID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2"/&gt;
&lt;p sID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p3"/&gt;The </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1823">lips.&lt;p eID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2"/&gt;
&lt;p sID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p3"/&gt;The </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1831">lips.&lt;p eID="novel1_letter4_chapter5_div4_div5_p2"/&gt;
&lt;p sID="novel1_letter4_chapter5_div4_div5_p3"/&gt;The </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fMS">lips.&lt;milestone unit="tei:p"/&gt;&lt;
lb n="c56-0046__main__3"/&gt;The</rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fThomas">lips. And the</rdg>
            </app>
            <app>
               <rdg wit="#fThomas">contortions that ever and anon con
&lt;del sID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2_add1_del1"/&gt;puls&lt;
del eID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2_add1_del1"/&gt;vulsed &amp; deformed his un-human features.
&lt;p eID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2"/&gt;
&lt;p sID="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p3"/&gt;The </rdg>
            </app>
            <app type="invariant" xml:id="C10_app93">
               <rdg wit="#f1818">different accidents of life are </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1823">different accidents of life are </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#f1831">different accidents of life are </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fMS">different accidents of life are </rdg>
               <rdg wit="#fThomas">different accidents of life are </rdg>
            </app>
<p xml:id="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2">
               <seg part="F" xml:id="C10_app44-fThomas__Pt2">How </seg>can I describe my <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app46-fThomas">emotions </seg>at this <seg xml:id="C10_app48-fThomas"
                  >catastrophe, </seg>or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and
               care I had endeavoured to <seg xml:id="C10_app54-fThomas">form? </seg>His limbs were
               in <seg xml:id="C10_app56-fThomas">proportion, </seg>and I had selected his features
               as <seg xml:id="C10_app60-fThomas">beautiful. Beautiful!—Great </seg>God! His <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app62-fThomas">yellow </seg>skin scarcely covered the work of muscles
               and arteries beneath; his hair <seg xml:id="C10_app66-fThomas">was of </seg>a
               lustrous <seg xml:id="C10_app68-fThomas">black, </seg>and <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app70-fThomas">flowing; </seg>his teeth of a pearly <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app72-fThomas">whiteness; </seg>but these <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app74-fThomas">luxuriances </seg>only formed a more horrid contrast
               with his <seg xml:id="C10_app80-fThomas">watery eyes, </seg>that seemed almost of the
               same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled <seg
                  xml:id="C10_app86-fThomas">complexion, </seg>
               <seg xml:id="C10_app87-fThomas">
                  <del xml:id="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2_del1">and</del>
               </seg>
               <seg xml:id="C10_app88-fThomas">straight </seg>black <seg xml:id="C10_app90-fThomas"
                  >lips. And </seg>
               <seg xml:id="C10_app91-fThomas">the </seg>
               <seg part="I" xml:id="C10_app92-fThomas__Pt1">contortions that ever and anon con<del
                     xml:id="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p2_add1_del1">puls</del>vulsed &amp;
                  deformed his un-human features.</seg>
            </p>
<p xml:id="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p3">
               <seg part="F" xml:id="C10_app92-fThomas__Pt2">The </seg>different accidents of life are 
            not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for

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