Articles
Published article links, ordered before lower-maturity research material.
Reconstructed contents of Hipparchus's lost star catalogue
A contested partial reconstruction from palimpsests, papyri, and later astronomical witnesses
Technical-recipe stratum behind Papyrus Holmiensis and Leiden X
A late-antique recipe source layer inferred from companion craft papyri.
Emergent lineage
Related pages, connected by this project's own research.
Related Pages
Other pages that share linked material with this one.
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…
Published editions
critical and documentary print editions used as countable data (Meersseman, Glorieux, MGH, Kaeppeli, Schwartz's Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, and o…
Astronomical tables
DISHAS, zij corpora, computus tables, horoscope recomputation, star catalogues, astrolabe/dial corpora.
Greek textual transmission
Greek lost works, fragment corpora, doxographic chains, technical texts, and ancient author dossiers.
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
Union catalogues
manuscript union catalogues and microfilm/digitization censuses (vHMML, EMML, NGMPP/Nepal, NCC, Kanjur databases, national catalogues).
Digitized texts
digitized full-text corpora used as countable data -- OpenITI/KITAB, ROMTEXT, and similar digitized-text projects. New A2 family.
Stemmatics: reconstructing transmission trees from shared error
Philology's stemmatic method — kin to cladistics in biology — reconstructs a family tree of copies from the errors they share, on the logic that a mi…
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.
- One codex crossed the dark centuries alone Already answered
- Every Greek road leads back to one salvage Already answered
- Four arts went in, two came out Already answered
- An encyclopaedia alphabetized into silence Anticipated in print · untested
- The corpus salutes masters it cannot produce Anticipated in print · untested
- Letters that were never answered 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.