The Texts of the Brooklyn Corpus

The text files of the Brooklyn Corpus are labelled with their Helsinki Corpus name. All files begin with the prefix 'co'. Format 1 files have an extension beginning with 'o' followed by the Helsinki Corpus time period that the text belongs to. If 'o' is followed by one number, the date of composition and the date of the manuscript fall within the same period; when 'o' is followed by two numbers, the first is the period of the date of composition, the second of the manuscript. The four time periods of the Old English Section of the Helsinki Corpus are 1=before 850, 2=850-950, 3=950-1050, and 4=1050-1150.

The Brooklyn Corpus texts in alphabetic order are the following:

coaelet3.o3: AELFRIC'S FIRST AND SECOND LETTERS TO WULSTAN. DIE HIRTENBRIEFE AELFRICS IN ALTENGLISCHER UND LATEINISCHER FASSUNG. BIBLIOTHEK DER ANGELSAECHSISCHEN PROSA, IX. ED. B. FEHR. HAMBURG: VERLAG VON HENRI GRAND, 1914. PP. 68.12 - 144.2 (IV; LWSTAN1); PP. 146.1 - 220.7 (V; LWSTAN2) (SAMPLE 1). Word count: 7960.

coaelet4.o34: AELFRIC'S LETTER TO WULFSIGE. DIE HIRTENBRIEFE AELFRICS IN ALTENGLISCHER UND LATEINISCHER FASSUNG. BIBLIOTHEK DER ANGELSAECHSISCHEN PROSA, IX. ED. B. FEHR. HAMBURG: VERLAG VON HENRI GRAND, 1914. PP. 1.15 - 34.9 (I) (SAMPLE 2). Word count: 3230.

coaelive.o3: AELFRIC'S LIVES OF SAINTS, BEING A SET OF SERMONS ON SAINTS' DAYS FORMERLY OBSERVED BY THE ENGLISH CHURCH, VOLS. I-II. EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, O.S. 76, 82, 94, 114. ED. W. W. SKEAT. LONDON, 1966 (1881-1900). PP. 210.1 - 218.152 (IX) (SAMPLE 1); PP. 306.1 - 318.184 (XIV) (SAMPLE 2); PP. 124.1 - 142.288 (XXVI) (SAMPLE 3); PP. 314.1 - 334.276 (XXXII) (SAMPLE 4). Word count: 6980.

coapollo.o3: THE OLD ENGLISH 'APOLLONIUS OF TYRE'. ED. P. GOOLDEN. LONDON: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1958. PP. 2.1 - 42.31. Word count: 6530.

cobede.o2: BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF 'BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE', PARTS I,1; I,2. EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, O.S. 95, 96. ED. T. MILLER. LONDON, 1959 (1890; 1891). PP. 104.12 - 124.24 (SAMPLE 1); PP. 252.4 - 272.18 (SAMPLE 2); PP. 418.22 - 436.19 (SAMPLE 3). Word count: 10170.

coboeth.o2: ALFRED'S BOETHIUS. KING ALFRED'S OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BOETHIUS DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE. ED. W. J. SEDGEFIELD. OXFORD: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1899. PP. 74.15 - 79.7 (XXXIII) (SAMPLE 1); PP. 82.18 - 89.3 (XXXIV) (SAMPLE 2); PP. 89.24 - 94.13 (SAMPLE 3); PP. 117.1 - 124.1 (XXXVIII) (SAMPLE 4); PP. 126.28 - 135.21 (XXXIX) (SAMPLE 5). Word count: 10920.

cochroa2.o2: CHRONICLE MS A EARLY (O2). TWO OF THE SAXON CHRONICLES PARALLEL, VOL. I. ED. C. PLUMMER. OXFORD: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1965 (1892). PP. 2.1 - 112.5. Word count: 13460.

cochroa3.o3: CHRONICLE MS A LATE (O3). TWO OF THE SAXON CHRONICLES PARALLEL, VOL. I. ED. C. PLUMMER. OXFORD: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1965 (1892). PP. 112.6 - 132.29. Word count: 670.

cogregd3.o23: GREGORY THE GREAT, DIALOGUES (MS H). BISCHOFS WAERFERTH VON WORCESTER UEBERSETZUNG DER DIALOGE GREGORS DES GROSSEN. BIBLIOTHEK DER ENGELSAECHSISCHEN PROSA, V. ED. H. HECHT. LEIPZIG: GEORG H. WIGAND'S VERLAG, 1900. PP. 16.6 - 25.28 (SAMPLE 1); PP. 51.32 - 61.19 (SAMPLE 2); PP. 134.22 - 143.23 (SAMPLE 3). Word count: 5170.

cogregd4.o24: GREGORY THE GREAT, DIALOGUES (MS C). BISCHOFS WAERFERTH VON WORCESTER UEBERSETZUNG DER DIALOGE GREGORS DES GROSSEN. BIBLIOTHEK DER NGELSAECHSISCHEN PROSA, V. ED. H. HECHT. LEIPZIG: GEORG H. WIGAND'S VERLAG, 900. PP. 34.23 - 43.17 (SAMPLE 1); PP. 70.34 - 79.7 (SAMPLE 2); PP. 123.17 - 133.12 (SAMPLE 3). Word count: 5100.

colaw2.o2: ALFRED'S INTRODUCTION TO LAWS, LAWS (ALFRED), AND LAWS (INE). DIE GESETZE DER ANGELSACHSEN, VOL. I. ED. F. LIEBERMANN. HALLE: MAX NIEMEYER, 1903. PP. 26.17 - 46.23 (ALFRED'S INTRODUCTION TO LAWS) AND PP. 46.17 - 88.7 (LAWS (ALFRED)) (SAMPLE 1); PP. 88.25 - 122.32 (LAWS (INE)) (SAMPLE 2). Word count: 1950 + 3300 + 2670 = 7920.

colaw3.o3: LAWS (ELEVENTH CENTURY). DIE GESETZE DER ANGELSACHSEN, VOL. I. ED. F. LIEBERMANN. HALLE: MAX NIEMEYER, 1903. PP. 236.23 - 246.4 (V AETHELRED) PP. 246.9 - 256.27 (VI AETHELRED) PP. 278.10 - 296.5 (I CNUT) PP. 308.1 - 326.12 (II CNUT) PP. 380.1 - 385.5 (NORTHYMBRA PREOSTA LAGU). Word count: 6900.

colaw4.o34: LAWS (LATE). DIE GESETZE DER ANGELSACHSEN, VOL. I. ED. F. LIEBERMANN. HALLE: MAX NIEMEYER, 1903. PP. 444.10 - 453.6 (RECTITUDINES) AND PP. 453.10 - 455.48 (GEREFA) (SAMPLE 1); PP. 483.1 - 484.24 (WILLIAM I) (SAMPLE 2). Word count: 2100 + 220 = 2320.

coorosiu.o2: ALFRED'S OROSIUS. KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, PART I. EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, O.S. 79. ED. H. SWEET. LONDON, 1959 (1883). PP. 58.13 - 78.30 (SAMPLE 1); PP. 102.1 - 120.18 (SAMPLE 2); PP. 228.1 - 238.14 (SAMPLE 3). Word count: 8640.

cowulf3.o3: WULFSTAN'S HOMILIES (O3). THE HOMILIES OF WULFSTAN. ED. D. BETHURUM. OXFORD: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1957. PP. 175.3 - 184.180 (VIIIc) PP. 200.3 - 210.203 (Xc) PP. 225.3 - 232.106 (XIII) PP. 267.7 - 275.202 (XX). Word count: 6950.

cowulf4.o34: WULFSTAN'S HOMILIES (O3/4). THE HOMILIES OF WULFSTAN. ED. D. BETHURUM. OXFORD: THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1957. PP. 116.3 - 118.40 (Ib) PP. 119.28 - 122.73 (II) PP. 123.4 - 127.80 (III) PP. 221.3 - 224.95 (XII) PP. 242.8 - 245.79 (XVII). Word count: 3290.

Total word count: 106,210.