Scholastic citations
Kill-instrument — a dataset that can test conjecturesCorpus Thomisticum and digitized scholastic corpora; pecia/taxatio lists; university records.
Synopsis
LLM-authored synopsis Not an articleMedieval university learning left its own paper trail beyond the finished texts: the Corpus Thomisticum and similar digitized scholastic corpora that let Aquinas's and his contemporaries' full body of writing be searched at once, pecia lists recording which booksellers rented out which sections of a set text for copying, taxatio price lists, and university administrative records.
Because scholastic writing is dense with formal citation and quotation, this corpus is a natural fit for testing how citation and commentary actually behaved as a system. The jurists' PageRank applies a citation-ranking algorithm to jurists the way search engines rank web pages, and The pecia is a packet treats the pecia rental system as a packet-based distribution mechanism, closer to how shipped goods move than how a modern book is printed. Objections come from florilegia and Enemies get quoted, allies get paraphrased both ask whether debate opponents get quoted directly or only paraphrased, and whether that choice is itself a measurable rhetorical strategy.
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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…
Medieval Latin institutions and prosopography
Western and Latin institutional, office-holder, episcopal, monastic, parliamentary, and charter-implied gaps.
Theology as a science (sacred doctrine)
Aquinas's account, opening the Summa Theologiae, of sacred doctrine (theology) as a genuine science: a body of knowledge that proceeds from principle…
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
Published editions
critical and documentary print editions used as countable data (Meersseman, Glorieux, MGH, Kaeppeli, Schwartz's Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, and o…
Islamic and Persianate source transmission
Arabic, Persianate, Ottoman, Islamic, and adjacent manuscript/source routes before print dominance.
Channel dissociation
Two transmission channels for the same content predicted to carry opposite statistical signatures, including error-spectrum forensics (diagnosing the…
Digitized texts
digitized full-text corpora used as countable data -- OpenITI/KITAB, ROMTEXT, and similar digitized-text projects. New A2 family.
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 jurists' PageRank Anticipated in print · untested
- The pecia is a packet Anticipated in print · untested
- Moerbeke's dividend Anticipated in print · untested
- Objections come from florilegia Anticipated in print · untested
- Hard sayings are a small stock Anticipated in print · untested
- The supergloss forgets the matn 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.