The exemplar answers the disputation

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

The Paris stationers' taxatio of 1275 and 1304 fixed the rental price of exemplar peciae, so market demand could not show in price; it could only show in how many exemplars of a work the trade stocked. The surprising connection is between that regulated rental inventory and the disputation hall: exemplar multiplicity tracked what was live ammunition in quaestiones and quodlibets, not what the lecture statutes required, because students paid to rent what they needed to argue with, while statutory texts were heard read aloud and could be left unrented. Stationers, holding capital in loose quires, replicated exactly the titles that disputational citation made urgent that season. If this holds, it explains why the taxatio lists are cluttered with disputed questions, tabulae, and reference tools that no curriculum statute mentions, and it turns the price list into a demand-side record of the argument culture rather than the teaching syllabus.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause (the verdict follows it): ranking works on the 1304 Paris taxatio by exemplar availability, their citation frequency in disputational works (quodlibets and disputed questions) in the Aquinas citation corpus and contemporaneous scholastic corpora predicts that ranking significantly better than their presence in statutory lecture lists does. Secondary clause: statutory lecture texts lacking disputational citation currency sit disproportionately at single-exemplar level. Test as a rank regression with both predictors entered jointly.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

The Paris taxatio lists of 1275 and 1304 as printed in the Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, cross-referenced with the Aquinas citation corpus (1,424 judged contacts) for disputational citation frequencies.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write with no file reads, web access, or database queries; all context was supplied inline in the launching prompt.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

The demand-side reading of the 1275/1304 taxatio is established: Ray's thesis and Rouse & Rouse document that stationers stocked what the university market wanted (disputed questions, tabulae, preaching aids beyond the statutes). The specific regression of exemplar multiplicity on disputational citation frequency vs statutory lists is un-run, but the direction is anticipated.

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