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The Scriptome

Ethiopia 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 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c07 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c08 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c09 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c10 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c11 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c12 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c13 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c14 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
1 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c15 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
0 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c16 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
5 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c17 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
2 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
c18 Ethiopic
floor, not a production estimate
Census floor only; no canonical production estimate covers this cell.
12 surviving physical manuscripts counted
floor only; no production interval
census_only
target unit: physical_manuscript
Supporting ledger
Period Tradition Extant count (data) Buringh published series (evidence) Noetom prior (noetic) Grounded engine run (inference) Triangulated estimate (inference)
c06 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c07 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c08 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c09 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c10 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c11 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c12 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c13 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c14 Ethiopic 1.00 undated 5 - - - -
c15 Ethiopic 0.00 undated 5 - - - -
c16 Ethiopic 5.00 undated 5 - - - -
c17 Ethiopic 1.50 undated 5 - - - -
c18 Ethiopic 11.52 undated 5 - - - -

Method Ledger

Coverage metadata

Run key
scriptome-other-traditions-census-20260616
Dedup policy
One manuscript identity per dedup cluster; most complete non-provenance member selected. Provenance-entry-only clusters excluded from extant counts.
Date policy
Dated ranges allocate proportionally across c06-c18 overlaps for this tradition. Undated records remain in undated_count and are not distributed into period count.
Sources included in first row

Counterevidence and limits

The current page is limited by catalogue coverage, inherited survival calibration, and record dating precision.

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 (30 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: add. 1005, add. 1006, add. 1007
BnF Gallica oriental manuscript metadata (2 records)
source site
Gallica exposes catalogue records through documented SRU and per-item IIIF manifests. This Phase F lane imports only descriptive metadata, ARKs, manifest URLs, source attribution, and per-item rights for the Hébreu, Syr…
Sample shelfmarks: éthiopien 332, éthiopien 230
DigiVatLib Vatican manuscript IIIF metadata (1 records)
source site
DigiVatLib exposes digitized manuscript manifests through IIIF. Vatican site contents and images remain rights-reserved; Inferpedia stores only descriptive metadata, shelfmarks, manifest URLs, source attribution, and pe…
Sample shelfmarks: vat.et.1