LangScape Numbers
The numbers used to uniquely identify each text (LangScape numbers, LNos) consist of three figures on the pattern Ln.n.n. These numbers hold the following information:
1. The first number equates to the eSawyer number (or in a handful of cases to a Pelteret number - D.A.E. Pelteret, Catalogue of English Post-Conquest Vernacular Documents, Woodbridge, 1990)
| Examples | L156.n.n comes from charter eSawyer number 156 (S156) |
| L(P11).n.n comes from charter Pelteret number 11 |
2. The second number indicates whether it is the only boundary in the charter (number=0), or if not, whereabouts in the charter it comes (starting with number=1).
| Examples | L156.0.n is the only boundary survey in S156 |
| L35.1.n is the first of two or more boundary surveys in S35 | |
| L35.2.n is the second boundary in S35 |
3. The third number indicates whether it is a LangScape ‘Top Text’ (number=00) or a ‘Variant Version’ (starting with number=01 and largely taking the numerical sequence from the order of the manuscripts cited in eSawyer)
| Examples | L156.0.00 is the top text of the only boundary in S156 |
| L35.1.00 is the top text of the first boundary in S35 | |
| L35.2.01 is a variant version of the second boundary in S35 | |
| L35.2.02 is a further variant |