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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. A commentary is a bodyguard, and the body count shows it - Lead: 1 Africa's two clocks run on two skins - Lead: 1 A Greek library built for translators - Lead: 1 Ajami was born between the lines - Lead: 1 Anonymity is a wound on the first leaf - Lead: 1 Anthologies are funerals - Lead: 1 A saint ripens in a century - Lead: 1 Ask the date, learn the sect - Lead: 1 Auditing the Guru's Chain - Lead: 1 Babylonia survives as scrap - Lead: 1 Bestsellers of the Sahel - Lead: 1 Bilinguals mark the midpoint - Lead: 1 Bornu's frozen pen - Lead: 1 Burn the preface, keep the Bible - Lead: 1 Carvers start commercial, finish imperial - Lead: 1 Celibacy invents the neume - Lead: 1 Cheap hands make many books - Lead: 1 Citation is a mark-recapture net for drowned books - Lead: 1 Classification arrives with scale - Lead: 1 Colophons don't heap - Lead: 1 Colophons follow endowments - Lead: 1 Commentary arrives faster every century - Lead: 1 Constellations remember the globe - Lead: 1 Copper holds the deeds so the leaves don't have to - Lead: 1 Counting the uncounted: a mark-recapture census of the Sahel library - Lead: 1 Cribs become classics - Lead: 1 Dead emperors haunt the recut - Lead: 1 Djenné's household canon - Lead: 1 Dots pick a side of the frontier - Lead: 1 Duplicates mark the classroom - Lead: 1 Emperors arrive in profile - Lead: 1 Every medium has a half-life - Lead: 1 Explanation is exported: distance breeds ṭīkās - Lead: 1 Fantasy replaces the land registry - Lead: 1 Fiction depreciates first - Lead: 1 Finished on Friday - Lead: 1 Fragments tell you how a genre was handled - Lead: 1 Garshuni is a lock - Lead: 1 Ghost spellings - Lead: 1 Glass runs on book time - Lead: 1 Gold ground or gold letters - Lead: 1 Hafs is an Ottoman fact - Lead: 1 Her books live longer - Lead: 1 Humility is spelled by rank - Lead: 1 Iconoclasm is an event - Lead: 1 India copies what Istanbul forgot - Lead: 1 Interlace slips map the work - Lead: 1 Libraries shed their covers first - Lead: 1 Liturgy is the last to switch scripts - Lead: 1 Loose leaves for many hands - Lead: 1 Mail-order manuscripts from the Fayyum - Lead: 1 Margins fill where the stakes are bodily - Lead: 1 Memoryless monasteries - Lead: 1 Meter as error-correction - Lead: 1 Micrography trades truth for beauty - Lead: 1 Mismatched parts mark the factory - Lead: 1 Monopoly shows in the script - Lead: 1 Most of Sanskrit literature is two copies from extinction - Lead: 1 Names in stone, names in chains - Lead: 1 Nepal is everyone's offsite backup - Lead: 1 Oil-and-water scriptoria - Lead: 1 Old paper at the desert's edge - Lead: 1 One caravan carries the canon - Lead: 1 One hand cuts and copies - Lead: 1 Palimpsests keep to the monasteries - Lead: 1 Paper climbs the prestige ladder from the bottom - Lead: 1 Parchment futures - Lead: 1 Piety sits by the door - Lead: 1 Pitch waits for the vowel - Lead: 1 Plague churns the flyleaf - Lead: 1 Plague saints stamp the date - Lead: 1 Quires confess the exemplar - Lead: 1 Rhyme locks the doorway - Lead: 1 Sanaa's slow shelf - Lead: 1 Scriptoria flip, regions don't - Lead: 1 Song hides in the grammar book - Lead: 1 Stolen waqf books go quiet - Lead: 1 Survival has a sweet spot in the middle of the ruler - Lead: 1 Survival is a library property - Lead: 1 Survival is a luxury good - Lead: 1 Teaching Sanskrit Manuscripts to Tell Time - Lead: 1 Ten hands wrote half the library - Lead: 1 Texts cross borders as sound, not as objects - Lead: 1 The adversary's library - Lead: 1 The alias stops at the border - Lead: 1 The almanac lane of the treadmill runs hottest - Lead: 1 The altar copies, the shelf keeps - Lead: 1 The anthology is a core sample of a drowned literature - Lead: 1 The archipelago archive effect - Lead: 1 The armarium writes the argument - Lead: 1 The ascetic exception - Lead: 1 The autocommentary is an author's life insurance - Lead: 1 The beta of the scriptoria - Lead: 1 The bookseller's ghosts - Lead: 1 The bundle is a syllabus you can weigh - Lead: 1 The canon rounds to auspicious numbers - Lead: 1 The catalogue prefers the scholar - Lead: 1 The colophon converges like a legal form - Lead: 1 The colophon dies first - Lead: 1 The colophon is an advertisement - Lead: 1 The commentary tower has a fixed ceiling - Lead: 1 The countercyclical cloister - Lead: 1 The court poet works in stone and leaf at once - Lead: 1 The curse guards the liquid book - Lead: 1 The cutting-stock codex - Lead: 1 The dearest thing is the exemplar - Lead: 1 The dedication is a leash - Lead: 1 The deed swells with the supply of poets - Lead: 1 The desert keeps what the river kills - Lead: 1 The digest is a predator and the smṛti is prey - Lead: 1 The donor grows only in the West - Lead: 1 The dry-season scriptorium - Lead: 1 The dying hand writes Syriac first - Lead: 1 The East shelved Europe's bedtime stories - Lead: 1 The fire is a rounding error - Lead: 1 The flock sets the folio - Lead: 1 The fossil colophon is a stopwatch on the treadmill - Lead: 1 The grammar shelf flips in one lifetime - Lead: 1 The grumble marks the seam - Lead: 1 The hired pen pads the page - Lead: 1 The kernel survives inside the shell - Lead: 1 The land grant is a census of the oral archive - Lead: 1 The late-medieval boom is the decay curve read backwards - Lead: 1 The leaf gets crowded as the reader replaces the reciter - Lead: 1 The ledger taught the poem to code-switch - Lead: 1 The liturgy defects first - Lead: 1 The margin cools after the initial - Lead: 1 The masora is a checksum that worked - Lead: 1 The masora knows where you will slip - Lead: 1 The master is the scriptorium - Lead: 1 The millions shrink when the titles are counted twice - Lead: 1 The missal lags the chantry - Lead: 1 The model book is colour-blind - Lead: 1 The mouth keeps a toolshed of books - Lead: 1 The murrain that never reached the library - Lead: 1 The Muwatta flips once - Lead: 1 The new hand comes home from abroad - Lead: 1 Theology on chancery paper - Lead: 1 The opening benediction is a barcode - Lead: 1 The Organon travels as a block - Lead: 1 The palimpsest barometer - Lead: 1 The pañcāṅga is eaten, the siddhānta is kept - Lead: 1 The paper ladder - Lead: 1 The pocket keeps the Bible, cuts the saint - Lead: 1 The proverb pays the freight - Lead: 1 The quinion follows the ream - Lead: 1 The recopying wall - Lead: 1 The revision sweeps in a lifetime - Lead: 1 The Sankore lag - Lead: 1 The scribe's backache has its own stemma - Lead: 1 The second column is a coronation - Lead: 1 The second leaf splits the twins - Lead: 1 The staff follows the plummet - Lead: 1 The stitch that never updates - Lead: 1 The string-hole outlives the string - Lead: 1 The temple ledger is a library catalogue in stone - Lead: 1 The twin page slumps - Lead: 1 The vanished first library of the coast - Lead: 1 The vault and the broadcast - Lead: 1 The wall is a bestseller list - Lead: 1 The watermark front - Lead: 1 The White Monastery sets the list - Lead: 1 Timur's fingerprint - Lead: 1 Translation is a life raft - Lead: 1 Two Arabics never meet - Lead: 1 Two oceans of paper - Lead: 1 Unseen beasts drift faster - Lead: 1 When the monastery stops, the age pyramid freezes - Lead: 1 Women commission where merit is counted - Lead: 1 169 L1-L5
L0 Rough source
L1 Lead
L2 Candidate
L3 Evidence packet
L4 Draft article
L5 Published article
Realms drill-down table matching the chart links and maturity counts
Realm Chart count Total L0 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
A commentary is a bodyguard, and the body count shows it 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Africa's two clocks run on two skins 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
A Greek library built for translators 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ajami was born between the lines 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Anonymity is a wound on the first leaf 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Anthologies are funerals 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
A saint ripens in a century 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ask the date, learn the sect 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Auditing the Guru's Chain 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Babylonia survives as scrap 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Bestsellers of the Sahel 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Bilinguals mark the midpoint 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Bornu's frozen pen 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Burn the preface, keep the Bible 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Carvers start commercial, finish imperial 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Celibacy invents the neume 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Cheap hands make many books 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Citation is a mark-recapture net for drowned books 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Classification arrives with scale 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Colophons don't heap 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Colophons follow endowments 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Commentary arrives faster every century 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Constellations remember the globe 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Copper holds the deeds so the leaves don't have to 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Counting the uncounted: a mark-recapture census of the Sahel library 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Cribs become classics 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Dead emperors haunt the recut 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Djenné's household canon 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Dots pick a side of the frontier 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Duplicates mark the classroom 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Emperors arrive in profile 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Every medium has a half-life 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Explanation is exported: distance breeds ṭīkās 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Fantasy replaces the land registry 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Fiction depreciates first 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Finished on Friday 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Fragments tell you how a genre was handled 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Garshuni is a lock 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ghost spellings 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Glass runs on book time 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Gold ground or gold letters 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hafs is an Ottoman fact 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Her books live longer 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Humility is spelled by rank 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Iconoclasm is an event 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
India copies what Istanbul forgot 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Interlace slips map the work 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Libraries shed their covers first 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Liturgy is the last to switch scripts 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Loose leaves for many hands 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Mail-order manuscripts from the Fayyum 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Margins fill where the stakes are bodily 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Memoryless monasteries 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Meter as error-correction 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Micrography trades truth for beauty 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Mismatched parts mark the factory 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Monopoly shows in the script 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Most of Sanskrit literature is two copies from extinction 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Names in stone, names in chains 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Nepal is everyone's offsite backup 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Oil-and-water scriptoria 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Old paper at the desert's edge 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
One caravan carries the canon 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
One hand cuts and copies 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Palimpsests keep to the monasteries 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Paper climbs the prestige ladder from the bottom 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Parchment futures 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Piety sits by the door 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Pitch waits for the vowel 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Plague churns the flyleaf 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Plague saints stamp the date 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Quires confess the exemplar 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Rhyme locks the doorway 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Sanaa's slow shelf 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Scriptoria flip, regions don't 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Song hides in the grammar book 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Stolen waqf books go quiet 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Survival has a sweet spot in the middle of the ruler 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Survival is a library property 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Survival is a luxury good 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Teaching Sanskrit Manuscripts to Tell Time 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ten hands wrote half the library 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Texts cross borders as sound, not as objects 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The adversary's library 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The alias stops at the border 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The almanac lane of the treadmill runs hottest 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The altar copies, the shelf keeps 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The anthology is a core sample of a drowned literature 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The archipelago archive effect 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The armarium writes the argument 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The ascetic exception 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The autocommentary is an author's life insurance 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The beta of the scriptoria 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The bookseller's ghosts 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The bundle is a syllabus you can weigh 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The canon rounds to auspicious numbers 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The catalogue prefers the scholar 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The colophon converges like a legal form 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The colophon dies first 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The colophon is an advertisement 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The commentary tower has a fixed ceiling 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The countercyclical cloister 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The court poet works in stone and leaf at once 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The curse guards the liquid book 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The cutting-stock codex 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The dearest thing is the exemplar 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The dedication is a leash 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The deed swells with the supply of poets 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The desert keeps what the river kills 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The digest is a predator and the smṛti is prey 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The donor grows only in the West 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The dry-season scriptorium 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The dying hand writes Syriac first 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The East shelved Europe's bedtime stories 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The fire is a rounding error 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The flock sets the folio 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The fossil colophon is a stopwatch on the treadmill 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The grammar shelf flips in one lifetime 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The grumble marks the seam 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The hired pen pads the page 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The kernel survives inside the shell 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The land grant is a census of the oral archive 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The late-medieval boom is the decay curve read backwards 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The leaf gets crowded as the reader replaces the reciter 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The ledger taught the poem to code-switch 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The liturgy defects first 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The margin cools after the initial 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The masora is a checksum that worked 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The masora knows where you will slip 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The master is the scriptorium 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The millions shrink when the titles are counted twice 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The missal lags the chantry 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The model book is colour-blind 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The mouth keeps a toolshed of books 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The murrain that never reached the library 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Muwatta flips once 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The new hand comes home from abroad 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Theology on chancery paper 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The opening benediction is a barcode 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Organon travels as a block 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The palimpsest barometer 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The pañcāṅga is eaten, the siddhānta is kept 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The paper ladder 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The pocket keeps the Bible, cuts the saint 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The proverb pays the freight 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The quinion follows the ream 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The recopying wall 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The revision sweeps in a lifetime 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The Sankore lag 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The scribe's backache has its own stemma 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The second column is a coronation 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The second leaf splits the twins 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The staff follows the plummet 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The stitch that never updates 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The string-hole outlives the string 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The temple ledger is a library catalogue in stone 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The twin page slumps 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The vanished first library of the coast 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The vault and the broadcast 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The wall is a bestseller list 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The watermark front 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
The White Monastery sets the list 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Timur's fingerprint 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Translation is a life raft 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Two Arabics never meet 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Two oceans of paper 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Unseen beasts drift faster 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
When the monastery stops, the age pyramid freezes 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Women commission where merit is counted 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

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.