The Nottingham Corpus of Early Modern German Midwifery and Women's Medicine (ca. 1500-1700)

Abstract

The resource is a text corpus, with digital text files, in plain text, and TEI XML versions.

Texts are taken primarily from digital facsimile copies available on-line via the University of Würzburg’s web-based library interface, Digitale Volltexte zur Geschichte der deutschen Fach- und Wissenschaftssprachen (http://www.fachtexte.germanistik.uni-wuerzburg.de/), particularly from the subcategory of Gynäkologie ‘gynaecology’ (http://www.fachtexte.germanistik.uni-wuerzburg.de/suche.php?suche=sachbereich&formular=go&sachbereich=30). Where this is not the case (mainly in the texts by Rösslin and Rüff), a 1910 facsimile copy (ed. Gustav Klein) was used as the basis of transcription instead. Diplomatic transcription, double keying, and proofreading. The data represent partial copies of the works in question (sometimes the majority of text was keyed in, but there always some omissions in one form or another).