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…
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…
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…
Union catalogues
manuscript union catalogues and microfilm/digitization censuses (vHMML, EMML, NGMPP/Nepal, NCC, Kanjur databases, national catalogues).
Medieval Latin institutions and prosopography
Western and Latin institutional, office-holder, episcopal, monastic, parliamentary, and charter-implied gaps.
Technical, recipe, and scientific texts
Recipe strata, agronomic source chains, astronomical catalogues, herbals, and practical technical corpora.
Critical apparatus
genuine variant/apparatus data at scale -- Homeric papyri, Gandhari scrolls, epic recensions, Parry-Lord recordings. V2 narrows this family to true v…
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.
- Buried at Thebes, copied at Byzantium Already answered
- Music survived by burial, not by copying Anticipated in print · untested
- The sign froze and the songs kept moving Anticipated in print · untested
- A chronicle with no first copy Anticipated in print · untested
- Three tablets copied through the mouth Anticipated in print · untested
- Fluent chant, dead reading 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.