OK. I would classify this project as advanced difficulty. It will be
very hard.
We want to do the following
- Modernize all spelling to modern standards
- Remove excess capitalization and italics (but preserve where the
modern reader would expect it)
- Expand any abbreviated external references in the endnotes
Send a link to your repo once you start and we'll assign you a manager
and reviewer.
On 10/7/25 3:51 PM, Guan Un wrote:
> I think so! I'll give it a go, and let you know if it's too much.
>
> On Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7:39:19 AM UTC+11 Alex Cabal wrote:
>
> Looking at it closer, this would require significant spelling
> modernization, much more than modernize-spelling can do; and removal of
> excessive italics and capitalization. It would require very careful
> reading and a lot of work. Are you OK with doing that?
>
> On 10/7/25 3:29 PM, Guan Un wrote:
> > That works for me! I'm most interested in Hydriotaphia at first,
> so I'll
> > start with that and the Garden of Cyrus.
> >
> > It doesn't look like there's a Gutenberg edition of that volume but
> > there looks like there's a high quality web version:
> >
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/hgc.html <https://
>
penelope.uchicago.edu/hgc.html>
> >
> > Would that be okay to work from?
> >
> > It's based on the 1658 edition, with scans here: https://
>
archive.org/ <
https://archive.org/>
> > details/hydriotaphiaurne00browuoft
> > On Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7:00:52 AM UTC+11 Alex Cabal wrote:
> >
> > I think we would be interested in his work, but organized
> differently.
> >
> > The PG edition has three different works in one volume, but I
> think we
> > would do Religio Medici separately, then Hyrdiotaphia and The
> Garden of
> > Cyrus together as they are supposedly two parts of a single work,
> and
> > then maybe any letters as a separate omnibus.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > On 10/6/25 10:47 PM, Guan Un wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if there's interest in me converting the above.
> > This isn't
> > > my first project, but it's been a while since I've done it.
> > >
> > > Gutenberg:
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>
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> >
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/586>>
> > > Archive:
https://archive.org/details/religiomedicihyd00brow/
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