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Atlas / Realms

African manuscript and source ecologies

Subjects in this realm

Object count by maturity
Headline size counts L1-L5 research objects; L0 rough rows remain in the table only.

Count by Maturity

Realms drill-down chart Donut chart using L1 through L5 object counts; L0 rough-source counts are excluded from slice size. Manuscript and scribal production - Lead: 393 Manuscript and scribal production - Candidate: 3 Manuscript and scribal production - Evidence packet: 12 Manuscript and scribal production - Published article: 14 422 L1-L5
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Realms drill-down table matching the chart links and maturity counts
Realm Chart count Total L0 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
Manuscript and scribal production
Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.
 422 422 0 393 3 12 0 14
Drill link Chart count L0 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
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Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Probable Kiev illuminated protograph behind the Ostromir and Mstislav Gospel miniatures 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Probable Kiev illuminated protograph behind the Ostromir and Mstislav Gospel miniatures 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The vanished source corpus inside the Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Saadia Siddur Oxford/Sassoon fragment split 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lost textual witness around Midrash HaGadol 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Codex Millenarius Bavarian-Austrian Vulgate inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Possible source layer behind Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Probable Kiev illuminated protograph behind the Ostromir and Mstislav Gospel miniatures 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ranworth Antiphoner production-team inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Siddur of Saadia Gaon manuscript-witness ledger 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Sinai Armenian inscription pilgrim and dedicator person-traces 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Yemenite Midrash HaGadol manuscript witness route 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Kiev illuminated protograph specialist controls 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
possible scribal hands behind early Sinai Armenian graffiti 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Draft source-reading route: Probable Kiev illuminated protograph 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Judaism source reading: Masoretic Text witness-family ledger 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Judaism source reading: Siddur of Saadia Gaon manuscript-witness ledger 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Judaism wave article gate: Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 brief-L5 review: Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 brief-L5 review: Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Codex Millenarius Bavarian-Austrian Vulgate inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Ranworth Antiphoner production-team inferon 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 promotion filter: Sinai Armenian inscription pilgrim and dedicator person-traces 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 split source route: Named Armenian pilgrims in Sinai graffiti near Jebel Musa and St Catherine's 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
L3 split source route: Possible scribal hands behind early Sinai Armenian graffiti 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Noetic sibling lead: Yongle-only witness dossiers for lost pre-Ming source texts 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Probable Kiev illuminated protograph behind the Ostromir and Mstislav Gospel miniatures 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Sibling campaign from The vanished source corpus inside the Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Sibling campaign route: Yongle-only witness dossiers for lost pre-Ming source texts 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and scribal layers 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Codex Sangallensis 878 manuscript locus 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Mstislav Gospel codicological transmission shadow 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Obscure high-priest and manuscript objects with single-page attestation surfaces 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Papyrus 13 witness, provenance, and textual-variant context 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Ranworth Antiphoner 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Title-prior route: Sinai Armenian inscriptions: unattested scribes, donors, and pilgrimage traces 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Codex Millenarius Bavarian-Austrian Vulgate inferon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Masoretic Text witness-family ledger 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Named Armenian pilgrims in Sinai graffiti near Jebel Musa and St Catherine's 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Possible scribal hands behind early Sinai Armenian graffiti 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Possible source layer behind Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ranworth Antiphoner production-team inferon 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sinai Armenian inscription pilgrim and dedicator person-traces 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Yemenite Midrash HaGadol manuscript witness route 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Yongle-only witness dossiers for lost pre-Ming source texts 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Codex Faenza anonymous repertory and layer inferon 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Codex Millenarius Bavarian-Austrian Vulgate inferon 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Codex Sangallensis 878 alphabet and runic teaching locus 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Masoretic Text witness-family ledger 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Possible source layer behind Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Probable Kiev illuminated protograph behind the Ostromir and Mstislav Gospel miniatures 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Ranworth Antiphoner production-team inferon 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Siddur of Saadia Gaon manuscript-witness ledger 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Siddur of Saadia Gaon manuscript-witness ledger 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Sinai Armenian inscription pilgrim and dedicator person-traces 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Yemenite Midrash HaGadol manuscript witness route 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
A Jewish response dossier behind the Tortosa disputation 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lost Midrash Esfah behind later excerpt traditions 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lost preceding work in the Papyrus 13 Hebrews roll 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ranworth Antiphoner production team 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
The vanished source corpus inside the Yongle Encyclopedia 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

Deferred Metrics

Quotient epistemic mass
Size by aggregate epistemic_quotient to show where the strongest inferred knowledge is.
Published-only
Size by L5 published articles only: the solid-ground view.
Negative-space
Size or shade by lost-vs-attested structure: the map of the gaps.