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The Scriptome

Central Asia Scriptome

Counts are not production; catalogues are not completeness; estimates are inferences. Survivorship is the subject of this page, not a footnote.
Period Tradition Public reading Interval or floor Source Ledger
c06 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
8 physical manuscripts
interval 5-14
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-25835cbc98e5ff58d14e406f2426cf5e1d737aaa54f42362
c07 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
11 physical manuscripts
interval 7-19
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-1ab9172bc5594075d3249ae4300377a2734f2fa24648681e
c08 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
19 physical manuscripts
interval 12-32
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-87ac355cf5064b5e0b9ade212710a2ea7e2999776eef35dd
c09 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
64 physical manuscripts
interval 18-223
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-8fac14ddb61c61f8bc6bec6a1ebe94146c66ce49550a2c94
c10 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
45 physical manuscripts
interval 13-158
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-2c8bad1437058b79297ffeb160102a0d7130eb1786db8f80
c11 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
107 physical manuscripts
interval 31-373
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-321cfbb3ef91b595ab7fafecae778f216b8cec155d4357be
c12 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
89 physical manuscripts
interval 26-311
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-31d216ca89e7a7244a5df6b81b658b64d8c415bd4a499935
c13 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
15 physical manuscripts
interval 11-20
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-a5f63f19170f0e1227c95d621ae95c2810b3d36d2652b390
c14 Islamic world
group-inherited estimate — not cell-specific.
Group-inherited estimate; this is not cell-specific and the interval is widened for shrinkage.
Borrowed from group: support_regime=paper|climate_regime=arid|tradition=islamic|catalogue_coverage_tier=sparse
Shrinkage weight to group: 1.00
Group mean mu_g: 48; tau_g: 0.00
48 physical manuscripts
interval 20-115
pooled_group_prior
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-aa006238e1034acd896ab9eedee7d4c40afdf0b06cd69599
c15 Islamic world
group-inherited estimate — not cell-specific.
Group-inherited estimate; this is not cell-specific and the interval is widened for shrinkage.
Borrowed from group: support_regime=paper|climate_regime=arid|tradition=islamic|catalogue_coverage_tier=sparse
Shrinkage weight to group: 1.00
Group mean mu_g: 48; tau_g: 0.00
48 physical manuscripts
interval 20-115
pooled_group_prior
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-3bcd228a277fcd065b908d3c5c0a36479a15e2189939fb5b
c16 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
121 physical manuscripts
interval 85-171
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-0d8116a0b945c82a681091a1a02884fd032bb0ff06f6a27a
c17 Islamic world
group-inherited estimate — not cell-specific.
Group-inherited estimate; this is not cell-specific and the interval is widened for shrinkage.
Borrowed from group: support_regime=paper|climate_regime=arid|tradition=islamic|catalogue_coverage_tier=sparse
Shrinkage weight to group: 1.00
Group mean mu_g: 48; tau_g: 0.00
48 physical manuscripts
interval 20-115
pooled_group_prior
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-4d7bd59103ea5cda0941061f27867a35fdfb6a2be25278da
c18 Islamic world
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
1372 physical manuscripts
interval 393-4781
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-37ceafbd649722bf97d3dfb122fc86f1a6dc419b115371b3
c19 Islamic world
group-inherited estimate — not cell-specific.
Group-inherited estimate; this is not cell-specific and the interval is widened for shrinkage.
Borrowed from group: support_regime=paper|climate_regime=arid|tradition=islamic|catalogue_coverage_tier=sparse
Shrinkage weight to group: 1.00
Group mean mu_g: 48; tau_g: 0.00
48 physical manuscripts
interval 20-115
pooled_group_prior
target unit: physical_manuscript
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-027544c0810d346690022f52c156fa195baaa8dc20d6e6eb
Supporting ledger
Period Tradition Language-attributed extant count (inference) Buringh published series (evidence) Noetom prior (noetic) Grounded engine run (inference) Triangulated estimate (inference)
c06 Islamic world 0.10 undated 0 - - 8
envelope 4-12
4
0-12
c07 Islamic world 0.20 undated 0 - - 12
envelope 6-18
6
0-18
c08 Islamic world 0.50 undated 0 - - 23
envelope 11-34
11
0-34
c09 Islamic world 0.99 undated 0 - - 33
envelope 3-63
17
0-63
c10 Islamic world 0.81 undated 0 - - 21
envelope 2-39
10
0-39
c11 Islamic world 3.59 undated 0 - - 68
envelope 7-130
34
0-130
c12 Islamic world 3.71 undated 0 - - 53
envelope 5-101
26
0-101
c13 Islamic world 7.19 undated 0 - - 96
envelope 10-183
18
10-18
c14 Islamic world 7.23 undated 0 - - 108
envelope 11-206
113
8-289
c15 Islamic world 24.73 undated 0 - - 410
envelope 41-780
149
8-780
c16 Islamic world 57.64 undated 0 - - 957
envelope 96-1818
160
96-160
c17 Islamic world 101.75 undated 0 - - 1689
envelope 169-3209
575
8-3209
c18 Islamic world 142.61 undated 0 - - 2367
envelope 237-4498
1184
0-4498
c19 Islamic world 147.47 undated 0 - - 2448
envelope 245-4651
834
8-4651
A large share of the Islamic tradition's dated census is not fine-grained: 71.4% of its dated records (105,226 of 147,288) carry the exact same generic vHMML placeholder date range, 1700-1950, not a real per-item date -- driven almost entirely by HMML's West African/Mali-Timbuktu digitization program (119,322 records, most of the Islamic tradition by count). A century-level reading of the Islamic rows on this page is, for most of that mass, not actually informative about century. See the HMML/vHMML row on the sources page →

Method Ledger

Region inferred from language, not recorded origin.

Run
80
Spec
grounded_islamic.v1
Input snapshot
8c69de59f7a5d2d18965c6f4a11aa71aedeb622a0196c0b16f654885db43484f

Parameter provenance

  • extant: ExtantCount rows, one identity per dedup cluster.
  • correction_factor: Borrowed unchanged from Buringh Latin West benchmark spec; tradition-specific correction recalibration is future judged work. For periods beyond the Latin West benchmark, correction_factor carries forward the borrowed c15 placeholder value until judged tradition-specific recalibration lands.
  • scaling_factor: Borrowed unchanged from Buringh Latin West benchmark spec; tradition-specific scaling recalibration is future judged work. For periods beyond the Latin West benchmark, scaling_factor carries forward the borrowed c15 placeholder value until judged tradition-specific recalibration lands.
  • survival: Borrowed Latin West base survival with authored tradition loss events; pending tradition-specific recalibration. For periods beyond the Latin West benchmark, survival carries forward the borrowed c15 placeholder value until judged tradition-specific recalibration lands.

Methods

These are supporting ledgers. The public reading above uses the public source label first.

c06 / Islamic world
4 range 0-12
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 8 (4-12), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin.
c07 / Islamic world
6 range 0-18
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 12 (6-18), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin.
c08 / Islamic world
11 range 0-34
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 23 (11-34), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin.
c09 / Islamic world
17 range 0-63
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 33 (3-63), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c10 / Islamic world
10 range 0-39
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 21 (2-39), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c11 / Islamic world
34 range 0-130
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 68 (7-130), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c12 / Islamic world
26 range 0-101
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 53 (5-101), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c13 / Islamic world
18 range 10-18
agreement from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 13 (10-18), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 96 (10-183), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c14 / Islamic world
113 range 8-289
!= divergent from 3 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 210 (158-289), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 108 (11-206), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
  • Dated-colophon rate: 20 (8-50), run 91
c15 / Islamic world
149 range 8-780
!= divergent from 3 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 17 (12-23), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 410 (41-780), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
  • Dated-colophon rate: 20 (8-50), run 91
c16 / Islamic world
160 range 96-160
agreement from 3 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 116 (87-160), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 957 (96-1818), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
  • Dated-colophon rate: 80 (33-200), run 91
c17 / Islamic world
575 range 8-3209
!= divergent from 3 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 17 (12-23), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 1689 (169-3209), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
  • Dated-colophon rate: 20 (8-50), run 91
c18 / Islamic world
1184 range 0-4498
!= divergent from 2 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 0 (0-0), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 2367 (237-4498), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c19 / Islamic world
834 range 8-4651
!= divergent from 3 methods
  • Extant-survival engine: 33 (25-46), run 70
  • Language-attributed extant survival: 2448 (245-4651), run 80 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
  • Dated-colophon rate: 20 (8-50), run 91

Coverage metadata

Run key
scriptome-other-traditions-census-20260616
Dedup policy
Date policy
Dated ranges allocate proportionally across c06-c19 overlaps for this tradition. Undated and out-of-scope records are excluded from language-attributed period counts.
Sources included in first row
fihrist-tei

Counterevidence and limits

Grounded catalogue run for scriptome-lang-20260614. Language-attributed extant counts: region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Survival/correction/scaling parameters are inherited from the Buringh Latin West benchmark until region-specific recalibration is judged separately.

What would change these numbers

  • Better catalogue coverage.
  • Region-specific survival calibration.
  • Dating refinements.

Records behind these numbers

Every physical-manuscript record mapped to this region, grouped by the source catalogue it came from, with that source's own licence and a few sample shelfmarks.

FIHRIST TEI manuscript descriptions (28 records)
source site
Operator-authorized reuse 2026-06-13 (Inferpedia project owner); upstream TEI public at github.com/fihristorg/fihrist-mss with no explicit upstream license
Sample shelfmarks: king's pote 179, or 13189, or 13449