[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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[Emma Sweeney]

David, The Pearl by Anonymous is ready for review.

repository link: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl

Notes:

• I treated this as a rough transcription; I added the stanza numbering and corrected typos before I committed the transcription.
• The editor receives special treatment, like with Sir Gawain.
• Although there isn't any official label for the different stanza divisions, it seems like the most common term used is "section".

Emma

[David]

Okay! I should be able to get to this today or tomorrow. Thanks for the notes!

[David]

As a wise man once said, if only all reviews went so quickly! :) (And I think that crop of the cover image works very well.)

Ready for you, Alex!

https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl
(As noted, this is one of those edge cases where the "Editor" finds a place in the slug.)

[Alex Cabal]

OK, looks good. I've gone ahead and released it, thanks!

On 4/16/26 8:27 AM, David wrote:
> As a wise man once said, if only all reviews went so quickly! :) (And I
> think that crop of the cover image works very well.)
>
> Ready for you, Alex!
> https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl
> (As noted, this is one of those edge cases where the "Editor" finds a
> place in the slug.)
>
> On Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at 09:11:08 UTC+1 David wrote:
>
> Okay! I should be able to get to this today or tomorrow. Thanks for
> the notes!
>
> On Wednesday, 15 April 2026 at 04:31:14 UTC+1 Emma Sweeney wrote:
>
> David, The Pearl by Anonymous is ready for review.
>
> repository link: https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-

> pearl <https://github.com/EmmaSweeney/anonymous_the-pearl>
>
> Notes:
>
> * I treated this as a rough transcription; I added the stanza

> numbering and corrected typos before I committed the
> transcription.

> * The editor receives special treatment, like with /Sir Gawain./
> * Although there isn't any official label for the different

> stanza divisions, it seems like the most common term used is
> "section".
>
>
> Emma
>

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