- Directed by Martin Foys, University of Wisconsin-Madison
OEPF is a Medieval Academy of America Medieval Digital Resource, peer reviewed and formally recommended by members of the Speculum Review Board and the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee.
Works already re-edited to digital facsimile in OEPF. Work on the project is ongoing, with estimated completion in 2028.
Latest Editions:
The Wife's Lament (Exeter Book), May 2025
"The Capture of Ælfheah" (Old English Chronicle, 1011 CDEF), May 2025
Exeter Riddle 91, May 2025
Exeter Riddle 95, May 2025
Paris Psalm 142 & Eadwine Psalm 142:9, May 2025
Paris Psalm 143, May 2025
Paris Psalm 144 , May 2025
Paris Psalm 145, May 2025
Seasons for Fasting (*BL MS Cotton Otho B.ix; Nowell transcription), February 2025
• Total works edited in OEPF: 323
• Total lines edited in OEPF: 24,441
• % of poetic corpus edited in OEPF: 78.8%
• % of poetic corpus available in digital facsimile editions (OEPF, Beowulf and "Cædmon's Hymn" ): 89.2%
• OEPF work completed: 87.9%
• For Beowulf, see Kevin Kiernan, ed. Electronic Beowulf, 4th Edition (2015): http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/
• For "Cædmon's Hymn", see Dan O'Donnell, ed. Cædmon’s Hymn: A Multimedia Study, Edition and Archive (2005, 2018): https://caedmon.seenet.org/
• Note: Below are all completed OEPF editions; click on the link to directly open the desired edition. You can also link below to index pages for individual manuscripts or genres (where available), link directly to the project's index for all editions, or, once inside the OEPF project, open the different category folders to see edited works, digital facsimiles and translations.