No entry without an excerpt

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)

This conjecture joins the twelfth-century schools to the thirteenth-century university through a bottleneck claim: Lombard's Sentences, Gratian's Decretum, and the Glossa ordinaria acted as the citation economy's admission gate, so a patristic authority not excerpted by them stayed effectively invisible to direct citation a century later, even when full texts sat in Paris-region libraries. The mechanism is retrieval, not doctrine: masters cited what the classroom scaffold surfaced, and a library's unindexed depth was dark matter no one dug into. The compilers of 1150 thereby fixed the retrievable past for the disputants of 1250. If this holds, availability was never the binding constraint on scholastic learning, indexing was, and the disappearance of the un-excerpted fathers becomes an information-retrieval event with a measurable signature rather than a story about taste or orthodoxy.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause (verdict follows it): patristic authorities attested in Paris-region library holdings but absent from the Lombard, Gratian, and Glossa excerpt canons show a mediated-or-zero citation profile in the Aquinas citation corpus in more than 90 percent of cases, a rate significantly above that of excerpted authorities with matched attested holdings. Categorical-but-decidable contrast with matched controls.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

The Aquinas citation corpus cross-referenced with excerpt inventories of Lombard's Sentences, Gratian's Decretum, and the Glossa ordinaria, plus attested Paris-region catalogues.

Nobody has run this test. The kill-data is named above. If you can run it — or you know the paper that already settles it — claim the kill or submit the prior. Kills and priors are credited here, by name, as they come in.

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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

That Lombard's Sentences, Gratian, and the Glossa ordinaria fixed which patristic material the university classroom could retrieve is established — thirteenth-century masters are described as products of these compilations, settling for what the Gloss and florilegia surfaced. The 90% categorical test against Paris-region holdings is un-run, but the gatekeeping direction is documented.

Predictions

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