Bibliographic (&c.) miscellany

1. The print Plan and Bibliography (2nd, revised edition)

The online MED, despite numerous changes, is still essentially the same dictionary as that published in print by the University of Michigan Press. And many features of the eMED are therefore best explained by the conclusive revised edition of the Dictionary's Plan and Bibliography (Robert E. Lewis and Mary Jane Williams, 2007). The essential portions of that text are therefore made available here in pdf (i.e. the 'Plan' portion, as opposed to the 'Bibliography,' the latter having been supplanted by the online Bibliography for use with the online Dictionary).

• Introduction to Plan and Bibliography.
• Abbreviation lists extracted from Introduction.

2. Two Google docs

Dictionaries at MED

An incomplete list of dictionaries consulted by the MED editors, past and present along with similar reference works (botanical and medical reference works, library catalogs, etc.)

Source texts at MED

A very very incomplete list of editions of French and Latin works cited by MED when supplying a Latin or French source for works translated into Middle English. The old MED library held many of these volumes, but any record there might have been of them has not been found, even in the MED archives at the Bentley Historical Library. The present list has had to be constructed, or reconstructed, work by work, and certainly includes some editions unknown to the editors of the print dictionary (and vice versa).

3. Miscellaneous

As a short list of books available to MED, Schaffner has listed his personal collection in LibraryThing.