Snowmanonahoe

Prometheus in Chains translated by Thomas Morell.pdf

What is the source of this file? There is no source listed on the upload at Commons. Without a source, it will be deleted at Commons and cannot be hosed here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:34, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: I'm not sure, I wasn't the person who found it (it wasn't Di either). If you look at the last page of the original upload (and not the one I did over it), it suggests it was on Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online. It doesn't seem to be there anymore. You need to request access to it and I don't have it. I've asked the person who found it again, but I already asked once, and they didn't respond. We have a source now. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 20:38, 14 May 2023 (UTC); edited 20:44, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I cannot find a copy at Internet Archive or at Hathi. Nor can I find evidence of a work published by Morell that might have included it. The file looks like a privately-made Adobe file from a web-page, which makes it unhostable on Wikisource.

It could only be hosted here if we can track down a scan of the original publication (assuming it exists). Wikisource no longer hosts secondary transcriptions or self-made files from web pages that are secondary sources. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:47, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: Have you looked at what is now in the source field on Commons? Snowmanonahoe (talk) 20:50, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I see there is a link, but I cannot see the contents of the PDF nor the claimed source page. Even is the file does come from there, it might not be hostable. Do you understand what I said about secondary transcription? We need a scan of the original book, with the publication details of that physical book. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:53, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey The archive claims that everything they have are scans here. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 21:02, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't see the claim that everything they have are scans. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:04, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

"Part I includes 135,000 printed works, comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages." Snowmanonahoe (talk) 21:05, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, "Part I includes 135,000 printed works, comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages," which states that it includes scans, but does not say that all the contents are scans. And there is also a Part II whose content is not explained. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:07, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

More immediately, when I try to Proofread a page in the Index, it states that no image is found. This means the file format is incompatible with our Proofread extension tool. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:10, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Y'know what, this doesn't seem worth the effort. Go ahead and G7 the index page. Have a nice day. Snowmanonahoe (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

The citation I was finally able to find is that: "In 1767 he edited the 'Prometheus Vinctus' of Æschylus, with a blank verse translation (8vo), and reissued it in quarto in 1773." This means the English translation is only part of the book, and secondary to the edited Greek text, and the translation therefore might not be hostable, since it is an "extract" of a larger volume. I have not been able to locate a scan of the complete volume. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:24, 14 May 2023 (UTC)