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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

L0 Rough source

L1 Lead

L2 Candidate

L3 Evidence packet

L4 Draft article

L5 Published article

Realm

Chart count

Total

Union catalogues

Kill-instrument: manuscript union catalogues and microfilm/digitization censuses (vHMML, EMML, NGMPP/Nepal, NCC, Kanjur databases, national catalogues).

169

Drill link	Chart count	L1
A commentary is a bodyguard, and the body count shows it	1	1
Africa's two clocks run on two skins	1	1
A Greek library built for translators	1	1
Ajami was born between the lines	1	1
Anonymity is a wound on the first leaf	1	1
Anthologies are funerals	1	1
A saint ripens in a century	1	1
Ask the date, learn the sect	1	1
Auditing the Guru's Chain	1	1
Babylonia survives as scrap	1	1
Bestsellers of the Sahel	1	1
Bilinguals mark the midpoint	1	1
Bornu's frozen pen	1	1
Burn the preface, keep the Bible	1	1
Carvers start commercial, finish imperial	1	1
Celibacy invents the neume	1	1
Cheap hands make many books	1	1
Citation is a mark-recapture net for drowned books	1	1
Classification arrives with scale	1	1
Colophons don't heap	1	1
Colophons follow endowments	1	1
Commentary arrives faster every century	1	1
Constellations remember the globe	1	1
Copper holds the deeds so the leaves don't have to	1	1
Counting the uncounted: a mark-recapture census of the Sahel library	1	1
Cribs become classics	1	1
Dead emperors haunt the recut	1	1
Djenné's household canon	1	1
Dots pick a side of the frontier	1	1
Duplicates mark the classroom	1	1
Emperors arrive in profile	1	1
Every medium has a half-life	1	1
Explanation is exported: distance breeds ṭīkās	1	1
Fantasy replaces the land registry	1	1
Fiction depreciates first	1	1
Finished on Friday	1	1
Fragments tell you how a genre was handled	1	1
Garshuni is a lock	1	1
Ghost spellings	1	1
Glass runs on book time	1	1
Gold ground or gold letters	1	1
Hafs is an Ottoman fact	1	1
Her books live longer	1	1
Humility is spelled by rank	1	1
Iconoclasm is an event	1	1
India copies what Istanbul forgot	1	1
Interlace slips map the work	1	1
Libraries shed their covers first	1	1
Liturgy is the last to switch scripts	1	1
Loose leaves for many hands	1	1
Mail-order manuscripts from the Fayyum	1	1
Margins fill where the stakes are bodily	1	1
Memoryless monasteries	1	1
Meter as error-correction	1	1
Micrography trades truth for beauty	1	1
Mismatched parts mark the factory	1	1
Monopoly shows in the script	1	1
Most of Sanskrit literature is two copies from extinction	1	1
Names in stone, names in chains	1	1
Nepal is everyone's offsite backup	1	1
Oil-and-water scriptoria	1	1
Old paper at the desert's edge	1	1
One caravan carries the canon	1	1
One hand cuts and copies	1	1
Palimpsests keep to the monasteries	1	1
Paper climbs the prestige ladder from the bottom	1	1
Parchment futures	1	1
Piety sits by the door	1	1
Pitch waits for the vowel	1	1
Plague churns the flyleaf	1	1
Plague saints stamp the date	1	1
Quires confess the exemplar	1	1
Rhyme locks the doorway	1	1
Sanaa's slow shelf	1	1
Scriptoria flip, regions don't	1	1
Song hides in the grammar book	1	1
Stolen waqf books go quiet	1	1
Survival has a sweet spot in the middle of the ruler	1	1
Survival is a library property	1	1
Survival is a luxury good	1	1
Teaching Sanskrit Manuscripts to Tell Time	1	1
Ten hands wrote half the library	1	1
Texts cross borders as sound, not as objects	1	1
The adversary's library	1	1
The alias stops at the border	1	1
The almanac lane of the treadmill runs hottest	1	1
The altar copies, the shelf keeps	1	1
The anthology is a core sample of a drowned literature	1	1
The archipelago archive effect	1	1
The armarium writes the argument	1	1
The ascetic exception	1	1
The autocommentary is an author's life insurance	1	1
The beta of the scriptoria	1	1
The bookseller's ghosts	1	1
The bundle is a syllabus you can weigh	1	1
The canon rounds to auspicious numbers	1	1
The catalogue prefers the scholar	1	1
The colophon converges like a legal form	1	1
The colophon dies first	1	1
The colophon is an advertisement	1	1
The commentary tower has a fixed ceiling	1	1
The countercyclical cloister	1	1
The court poet works in stone and leaf at once	1	1
The curse guards the liquid book	1	1
The cutting-stock codex	1	1
The dearest thing is the exemplar	1	1
The dedication is a leash	1	1
The deed swells with the supply of poets	1	1
The desert keeps what the river kills	1	1
The digest is a predator and the smṛti is prey	1	1
The donor grows only in the West	1	1
The dry-season scriptorium	1	1
The dying hand writes Syriac first	1	1
The East shelved Europe's bedtime stories	1	1
The fire is a rounding error	1	1
The flock sets the folio	1	1
The fossil colophon is a stopwatch on the treadmill	1	1
The grammar shelf flips in one lifetime	1	1
The grumble marks the seam	1	1
The hired pen pads the page	1	1
The kernel survives inside the shell	1	1
The land grant is a census of the oral archive	1	1
The late-medieval boom is the decay curve read backwards	1	1
The leaf gets crowded as the reader replaces the reciter	1	1
The ledger taught the poem to code-switch	1	1
The liturgy defects first	1	1
The margin cools after the initial	1	1
The masora is a checksum that worked	1	1
The masora knows where you will slip	1	1
The master is the scriptorium	1	1
The millions shrink when the titles are counted twice	1	1
The missal lags the chantry	1	1
The model book is colour-blind	1	1
The mouth keeps a toolshed of books	1	1
The murrain that never reached the library	1	1
The Muwatta flips once	1	1
The new hand comes home from abroad	1	1
Theology on chancery paper	1	1
The opening benediction is a barcode	1	1
The Organon travels as a block	1	1
The palimpsest barometer	1	1
The pañcāṅga is eaten, the siddhānta is kept	1	1
The paper ladder	1	1
The pocket keeps the Bible, cuts the saint	1	1
The proverb pays the freight	1	1
The quinion follows the ream	1	1
The recopying wall	1	1
The revision sweeps in a lifetime	1	1
The Sankore lag	1	1
The scribe's backache has its own stemma	1	1
The second column is a coronation	1	1
The second leaf splits the twins	1	1
The staff follows the plummet	1	1
The stitch that never updates	1	1
The string-hole outlives the string	1	1
The temple ledger is a library catalogue in stone	1	1
The twin page slumps	1	1
The vanished first library of the coast	1	1
The vault and the broadcast	1	1
The wall is a bestseller list	1	1
The watermark front	1	1
The White Monastery sets the list	1	1
Timur's fingerprint	1	1
Translation is a life raft	1	1
Two Arabics never meet	1	1
Two oceans of paper	1	1
Unseen beasts drift faster	1	1
When the monastery stops, the age pyramid freezes	1	1
Women commission where merit is counted	1	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.