The main Helsinki time periods are M1-M4, each covering
approximately one hundred years. In addition, texts originally written
in a given period but for which the earliest manuscript is from a later
period are given two digit period designations. Table 1 is
a list of all Helsinki periods as they appear in the corpus file names.
| Table 1: Helsinki periods
|
| Period designation
| Composition date
| Manuscript date
|
| MX1
| unknown
| 1150-1250
|
| M1
| 1150-1250
| 1150-1250
|
| M2
| 1250-1350
| 1250-1350
|
| M23
| 1250-1350
| 1350-1420
|
| M24
| 1250-1350
| 1420-1500
|
| M3
| 1350-1420
| 1350-1420
|
| M34
| 1350-1420
| 1420-1500
|
| MX4
| unknown
| 1420-1500
|
| M4
| 1420-1500
| 1420-1500
|
The current edition of the PPCME2 includes a total of roughly 1.2
million words of running text. It comprises 55 text samples, each of
which is given in three forms: a text file, a part-of-speech tagged file
and a parsed file. In addition, there is a file with philological and
bibliographical information about each text.
Wordcount information
Table 2 gives the number of words by Helsinki time period.
The wordcounts exclude punctuation and extralinguistic material such as
page numbers or token ID numbers.
| Table 2: Wordcount summary by Helsinki period
|
| Period
| Wordcount
|
| MX1
| 62,596
|
| M1
| 195,494
|
| M2
| 93,999
|
| M23
| 17,013
|
| M24
| 35,591
|
| M3
| 385,994
|
| M34
| 99,994
|
| MX4
| 5,168
|
| M4
| 260,116
|
| Total
| 1,155,965
|
Wordcounts for the individual files are given in Table
3. The information in the table is also contained in the file
WORDCOUNT-PPCME2 in the
current directory. The file is suitable for importing into a
spreadsheet program; the record separator is the space character.
| Table 3: Wordcount summary by individual text
|
| Text
| Date
| Genre
| Wordcount
|
| cmaelr3.m23
| c1400
| RULE
| 17,013
|
| cmaelr4.m4
| a1450
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 11,181
|
| cmancriw-1.m1
| c1230
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 48,566
|
| cmancriw-2.m1
| c1230
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 15,224
|
| cmastro.m3
| a1450_c1391
| HANDBOOK_ASTRO
| 6,897
|
| cmayenbi.m2
| 1340
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 45,944
|
| cmbenrul.m3
| a1425
| RULE
| 18,221
|
| cmboeth.m3
| ?a1425_c1380
| PHILOSOPHY
| 10,415
|
| cmbrut3.m3
| c1400
| HISTORY
| 49,099
|
| cmcapchr.m4
| a1464
| HISTORY
| 52,716
|
| cmcapser.m4
| c1452
| SERMON
| 1,469
|
| cmcloud.m3
| a1425_?a1400
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 15,599
|
| cmctmeli.m3
| c1390
| PHILOSOPHY/FICTION
| 17,005
|
| cmctpars.m3
| c1390
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 30,416
|
| cmearlps.m2
| c1350
| BIBLE
| 44,521
|
| cmedmund.m4
| c1450_1438
| BIOGRAPHY_LIFE_OF_SAINT
| 3,847
|
| cmedthor.m34
| c1440_?1350
| RELIG_TRREATISE
| 13,949
|
| cmedvern.m3
| c1390
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 12,843
|
| cmequato.m3
| c1392
| HANDBOOK_ASTRO
| 6,261
|
| cmfitzja.m4
| ?1495
| SERMON
| 5,652
|
| cmgaytry.m34
| c1440
| SERMON
| 5,238
|
| cmgregor.m4
| c1475
| HISTORY
| 37,326
|
| cmhali.m1
| c1225_?c1200
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 8,495
|
| cmhilton.m34
| a1450_a1396
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 4,963
|
| cmhorses.m3
| a1450
| HANDBOOK_MEDICINE
| 5,902
|
| cminnoce.m4
| 1497
| SERMON
| 4,329
|
| cmjulia.m1
| c1225_?c1200
| BIOGRAPHY_LIFE_OF_SAINT
| 6,810
|
| cmjulnor.m34
| c1450_c1400
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 5,004
|
| cmkathe.m1
| c1225_?c1200
| BIOGRAPHY_LIFE_OF_SAINT
| 8,699
|
| cmkempe.m4
| c1450
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 60,212
|
| cmkentho.m1
| a1150_c1125
| HOMILY
| 4,048
|
| cmkentse.m2
| c1275
| HOMILY
| 3,534
|
| cmlamb1.m1
| a1225
| HOMILY
| 6,459
|
| cmlambx1.mx1
| a1225
| HOMILY
| 20,752
|
| cmmalory.m4
| a1470
| ROMANCE
| 57,775
|
| cmmandev.m3
| ?a1425_c1400
| TRAVELOGUE
| 49,690
|
| cmmarga.m1
| c1225_?c1200
| BIOGRAPHY_LIFE_OF_SAINT
| 8,069
|
| cmmirk.m34
| a1500_a1415
| SERMON
| 57,548
|
| cmntest.m3
| c1388
| BIBLE
| 11,081
|
| cmorm.m1
| ?c1200
| HOMILY_POETRY
| 50,579
|
| cmotest.m3
| a1425_a1382
| BIBLE
| 10,015
|
| cmpeterb.m1
| c1150
| HISTORY
| 6,757
|
| cmpolych.m3
| a1387
| HISTORY
| 46,444
|
| cmpurvey.m3
| c1388
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 39,704
|
| cmreynar.m4
| 1481
| FICTION
| 8,850
|
| cmreynes.m4
| 1470-1500
| HANDBOOK_OTHER
| 9,100
|
| cmrollep.m24
| a1450_?1348
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 17,960
|
| cmrolltr.m24
| c1440_a1349
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 17,631
|
| cmroyal.m34
| c1450_c1425
| SERMON
| 6,231
|
| cmsawles.m1
| c1225_?c1200
| HOMILY
| 4,111
|
| cmsiege.m4
| c1500
| ROMANCE
| 7,659
|
| cmthorn.mx4
| c1440
| HANDBOOK_MEDICINE
| 5,168
|
| cmtrinit.mx1
| a1225
| HOMILY
| 41,844
|
| cmvices1.m1
| a1225_c1200
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 27,677
|
| cmvices4.m34
| c1450_c1400
| RELIG_TREATISE
| 7,061
|
| cmwycser.m3
| c1400
| SERMON
| 56,402
|