(Another bogus in?) Google's metadata mish-mash

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/22/2010 01:40 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>...
>The list seems to have trouble with UTF-8; my long-s (=U+017f) + i, which I
>entered as separate characters, show up in your quote as
> >
> > ãƒ
>
>U+30ca, katakana /na/

I received Mark's message with i -- long-s -- i
clearly.  I have no idea why quoting and
returning it through the list server changes it.

>...

But do you agree the title page is a
misprint?  (Perhaps beyond Google's arena of
responsibility, but perhaps something to add to
your correspondent's blog, particularly since it
eliminates this as an antedating.)

Joel

>On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> > At 12/21/2010 08:20 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> > >...
> > >  4. The real thing!
> > >     *A compleat history of the present state of war in Africa, between
> > the
> > >Spaniards and Algerines: ...*
> > >     J Morgan.
> > >     1632
> > >
> > >"States arrived at that Criムs cannot long
> subsist". A hit, a palpable hit,
> > >even with an s-longa + i ligature.
> > >...
> > >I give Google Ngrams a D-- here, saved from an F only by that single
> > genuine
> > >hit.
> >
> > That is a double minus, is it not? Perhaps it
> > should be changed to an F+.  I suspect there is a
> > misprint of the date on the title page, and it
> > should be 1732.  (1632 would be an antedating of
> > OED sense 3, although only of 1659.)
> >
> > Harvard's catalog says:
> > Author :  Morgan, J., fl. 1739
> > Title :         A compleat history of the present
> > state of war in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines [etc. etc.]
> > Published :  London : printed for W. Mears, at
> > the Lamb in the Old Bailey; and J. Stone,
> > Bedford-Row, near Grayç—´-Inn, M.DC.XXXII. M.DC.XXXII [i.e. 1732]
> >
> > (The repeated Roman year appears also in ESTC,
> > which similarly says {i.e. 1732].)  Harvard lists
> > several other titles it attributes to this
> > "Morgan, J., fl. 1739" from 1728 through (as a translator) 1744.
> >
> > Joel

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