Template:RQ:More Robinson Utopia/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Ralph Robinson's English translation (the first thereof) of Thomas More's work Utopia (1st edition, 1551). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – if quoting from one of the chapters indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value specified in the first column:

Parameter value	Result
Epistle	To the Right Honourable, and His Verie Singuler Good Maister, Maister William Lecylle Esquiere, […]
More Epistle	Thomas More to Peter Giles Sẽdeth Gretynge

• |sig= or |signature=, and |verso= – as the work is unpaginated, if desired the page(s) of the work quoted from can be identified by their signature numbers which appear at the bottom centre of some pages. If quoting from a verso (left-hand) page, specify |verso=1 or |verso=yes; if this parameter is omitted the template indicates that a recto (right-hand) page is quoted from. If quoting a range of signatures, for example, "signatures B.i., verso – B.ii., recto", use |sig= or |signature=, and |verso=, to specify the signature at the start of the range, and |sigend= or |signature_end=, and |versoend=, (if required) to specify the signature at the end of the range.
• |1= or |page= – mandatory: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by the Internet Archive to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://archive.org/details/frutefulpleasaun00more/page/n10/mode/1up, specify |page=10. This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the book number (1st or 2nd) quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
• |subchapter= – the 2nd book is divided into a number of subchapters. Use this parameter to specify the name of the subchapter quoted from.
• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment about the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:More Robinson Utopia|subchapter=Of Scyences Craftes and Occupatyons|sig=J.i.|verso=1|page=143|passage=[H]ow great, and howe ydle a companye ys theyr of [[priests|pryſtes]], and relygyous men, as they call them? put there to all ryche men, ſpeciallye all landed men, whyche commonly be called gentylmen, and noble men. Take into this numbre alſo their ſeruauntes. I meane all that flocke of ſtout bragging '''ruſſhe bucklers'''. Joyne to them alſo ſturdy and valiaunt beggers, clokinge their idle [[life|leffe]] vnder the colour of ſome diſeaſe or ſickenes.}}; or
  • {{RQ:More Robinson Utopia|subchapter=Of Scyences Craftes and Occupatyons|sig=J.i.|verso=1|143|[H]ow great, and howe ydle a companye ys theyr of [[priests|pryſtes]], and relygyous men, as they call them? put there to all ryche men, ſpeciallye all landed men, whyche commonly be called gentylmen, and noble men. Take into this numbre alſo their ſeruauntes. I meane all that flocke of ſtout bragging '''ruſſhe bucklers'''. Joyne to them alſo ſturdy and valiaunt beggers, clokinge their idle [[life|leffe]] vnder the colour of ſome diſeaſe or ſickenes.}}; or
• Result:
  • 1551, Thomas More, “The Second Boke of the Communycacion of Raphael Hythlodaye, Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe: Cõteynyng the Discription of Utopia, with a Large Declaration of the Godly Gouernement, and of All the Good Lawes and Orders of the Same Ilande. Of Scyences Craftes and Occupatyons.”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC, signature J.i., verso:

    [H]ow great, and howe ydle a companye ys theyr of pryſtes, and relygyous men, as they call them? put there to all ryche men, ſpeciallye all landed men, whyche commonly be called gentylmen, and noble men. Take into this numbre alſo their ſeruauntes. I meane all that flocke of ſtout bragging ruſſhe bucklers. Joyne to them alſo ſturdy and valiaunt beggers, clokinge their idle leffe vnder the colour of ſome diſeaſe or ſickenes.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:More Robinson Utopia|sig=B.i.|verso=1|sigend=B.ii.|page=32|passage=[I]n reaſonynge, and debatynge of matters what by his naturall witte, & what by daylye exerciſe, ſuerlye he hadde fewe '''fellowes'''.}}
• Result:
  • 1551, Thomas More, “The Fyrste Boke of the Communycacion of Raphaell Hythlodaye Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC, signatures B.i., verso – B.ii., recto:

    [I]n reaſonynge, and debatynge of matters what by his naturall witte, & what by daylye exerciſe, ſuerlye he hadde fewe fellowes.