Dunhuang & Turfan hoards
Kill-instrument — a dataset that can test conjecturesthe Dunhuang/Turfan/Khara-Khoto Silk Road oasis hoards (International Dunhuang Project), including Tibetan Dunhuang material.
Emergent lineage
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Record claim
About the production, transmission, survival, or filtering of the written/material record up to the pre-modern past itself -- scribal behaviour and e…
Steppe and Central Asian nomadic and Silk Road sources
The great steppe empires are known overwhelmingly through the archives of their sedentary neighbours — Chinese dynastic histories, Persian chronicles…
East Asian manuscript and canonical transmission
China, Korea, and Japan sustained the largest and best-catalogued manuscript cultures of the pre-print world — bamboo and wooden slips, silk, then pa…
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
Channel dissociation
Two transmission channels for the same content predicted to carry opposite statistical signatures, including error-spectrum forensics (diagnosing the…
Published editions
critical and documentary print editions used as countable data (Meersseman, Glorieux, MGH, Kaeppeli, Schwartz's Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, and o…
World claim
About the pre-print world outside the writing system itself -- trade, wages, politics, language, social structure, non-book craft; the written/materi…
East Asian canons
CBETA/SAT/Tripitaka Koreana; catalogues (Kaiyuan lu, Siku zongmu, dynastic treatises); the Quan Tang shi.
Open conjectures — noetic, untested
Falsifiable questions posed below the evidence boundary by the 1001 Conjectures project. They are leads, not evidence, and carry no weight in this page's assessment.
- The one recording and the one catalogue barely name the same tunes Anticipated in print · untested
- One dead city speaks for a literature Anticipated in print · untested
- Forty thousand scraps, a few hundred books Anticipated in print · untested
- A prophet who wrote his own scripture, mostly gone Anticipated in print · untested
- Rustam rides through on a single leaf Anticipated in print · untested
- One monastery's rubbish maps a church Anticipated in print · untested
From the One Thousand and One Conjectures. They carry no evidential weight here; verdicts and credits live on each conjecture's own page.