# The History of the Renown'd Don Quixote de la Mancha ... Translated from the original by several hands: and publish'd by Peter Motteux - Part I, Book III ch. IX to Book IV ch. IX (= Cervantes Part I chs. 23-36, the Cardenio/Dorotea/Fernando story)

**Slug:** `motteux_don_quixote_1700`  
**Priority:** 3  
**Author:** Peter Motteux (ed./tr.) et al.  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for Sam. Buckley at the Dolphin, 1700-1703 (imprint legible; FIRST edition; the archive.org item, catalogued '1700', contains the whole set incl. Part II). Motteux keeps Cervantes' four 'Books' of Part I, so the extracted chapters are numbered Book III ch. IX-XIII and Book IV ch. I-IX.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-history-of-the-renow_cervantes-miguel-de_1700` - https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-history-of-the-renow_cervantes-miguel-de_1700
  - catalogue title: The history of the renown'd Don Quixote ...  1700
  - date field: 1700; images/frames: 1412; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313713-33', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-history-of-the-renow_cervantes-miguel-de_1700_djvu.txt`
  - note: 1412 frames; reel IA40313713-33; tesseract OCR; extracted OCR lines 17046-30428

## Cleaned text(s)
- `motteux_dq_partI_ch23-36_cardenio.clean.txt` - c. 71,000 words: from 'What befel the Renown'd Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena' (Book III ch. IX = orig. 23) to the end of Book IV ch. IX (orig. 36), i.e. up to the head of 'The History of the famous Princess Micomicona continu'd' (orig. 37); 71,144 words; 95% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Extract complete; includes the interpolated Novel of the Curious Impertinent (chs. 33-35).

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
A 1705-06 second-edition set (4 vols) is also on archive.org (bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-of-the-renow_cervantes-saavedra-migu_1705-06-01_1..4).