[Next Project] The Pearl by Anonymous

[Emma Sweeney]

It's time for another short project, and I would like to produce another Middle English poem. The unnamed author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight also wrote The Pearl. Like with Sir Gawain, I plan to display the editor on the production's page.

The best edition of The Pearl is edited/translated by Sophie Jewett. There is a PG transcription, but it will need some work; it is missing the stanza numbering and contains a few typos. Other than those issues, it shouldn't be too hard.

PG transcription: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13211
page scans: https://archive.org/details/pearlmiddleengli00jewe/page/n5/mode/2up
repository: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl

I did find a painting that looks similar to a pearl (The Sun by Edvard Munch).




Emma

[Alex Cabal]

OK, sounds good. Robin will manage with David reviewing.

OK on the artwork but perhaps with not quite so tight a crop?

On 3/29/26 2:41 PM, Emma Sweeney wrote:
> It's time for another short project, and I would like to produce another

> Middle English poem. The unnamed author of /Sir Gawain and the Green
> Knight/ also wrote /The Pearl/. Like with /Sir Gawain/, I plan to

> display the editor on the production's page.
>

> The best edition of /The Pearl/ is edited/translated by Sophie Jewett.

> There is a PG transcription, but it will need some work; it is missing
> the stanza numbering and contains a few typos. Other than those issues,
> it shouldn't be too hard.
>

> PG transcription: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13211 <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13211>
> page scans: https://archive.org/details/pearlmiddleengli00jewe/page/n5/
> mode/2up <https://archive.org/details/pearlmiddleengli00jewe/page/n5/
> mode/2up>
> repository: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl <https://
> github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl>

>
> I did find a painting that looks similar to a pearl (The Sun by Edvard

> Munch <https://standardebooks.org/artworks/edvard-munch/the-sun>).
>
> the-pearl-cover-1.jpg
>
>
> Emma
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