Dictionary of Old English [DOE]

FAIN: PW-51530-14

University of Toronto (Toronto M5S 1A5 Canada)
Antonette diPaolo Healey (Project Director: July 2013 to June 2014)
Roy Liuzza (Project Director: July 2014 to March 2015)
Robert Getz (Project Director: March 2015 to September 2016)
Stephen Pelle (Co Project Director: March 2015 to September 2016)

The preparation of entries for the "Dictionary of Old English," a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between 650 and 1150 C.E.

The aim of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is to define the vocabulary of records written in English between 600 and 1150 C.E., using the technology of the twenty-first century. Because of its Electronic Corpus, comprising at least one copy of every Old English text, the DOE is based on a comprehensive examination of the surviving evidence. The DOE complements the other major historical dictionaries of English: the Middle English Dictionary (1100-1500 C.E.), and the Oxford English Dictionary (which catalogues English up to the present). DOE: A to G online (2007), the first Web version of the first eight letters (out of 22), created links to the online OED; in 2010 OED created reciprocal links to DOE. The 2013 internal version of DOE online displays links to MED and now for the first time to thumbnail manuscript images represented by Parker on the Web, providing users with the visual evidence for DOE's interpretation of some textual difficulties.