The Scriptome
North Africa 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.
|
10 physical manuscripts
interval 5-24
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-c1645acce92f70b7cdc13185e81c9fcc322da99ac8133f2b
|
| c07 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
10 physical manuscripts
interval 4-22
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-4cc708593cc6b4df34ce5c7f4591a45026da07e703007853
|
| c08 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
14 physical manuscripts
interval 6-32
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-1c26c3406ed5e2f0c39ecb99ae7222ecf1dfe38ed61f837e
|
| c09 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
15 physical manuscripts
interval 7-35
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-316fe39f545572598c55242c11d92b1325794913b108a4b4
|
| c10 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
13 physical manuscripts
interval 6-30
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-33a8394fc5c810936c787fe966cd11c88f65ade5c2e4df82
|
| c11 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
25 physical manuscripts
interval 11-57
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-66a18d33ffdf050cce17b2d392fb95319f7a99279438c4c8
|
| c12 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
104 physical manuscripts
interval 30-361
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-81787f29d2f20316461f9730096a3f30525d7b4351a0a5d1
|
| c13 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
210 physical manuscripts
interval 60-733
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-2d94828b824369fdb6e09b3d33eed235cd921f55eca48952
|
| c14 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
270 physical manuscripts
interval 78-942
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-2d9eefdafe4a5bc751f624471f527060aff310842344d69a
|
| c15 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
330 physical manuscripts
interval 95-1149
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-1ae186885a9282568acab47c9446b162c5948609109d9d93
|
| c16 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
452 physical manuscripts
interval 130-1574
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-590b34659fff9a24965839c4241332eefd573c676b50872d
|
| c17 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
603 physical manuscripts
interval 173-2102
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-3ff06a462738ab1f7cc100dd7d4e0a6bfd053d82a2e169e9
|
| c18 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
614 physical manuscripts
interval 176-2139
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-3019bbd159f38dc14048253ea2e3c418ff5051d9ead619b4
|
| c19 | Islamic world |
cell-specific estimate
Integrated posterior passed every public-promotion gate for this physical-manuscript cell.
|
498 physical manuscripts
interval 143-1736
|
integrated_promoted
target unit: physical_manuscript
|
Inferon evidence path
scriptome-path-5b01192bef4c9c557ec23e0d9b9596b9ddfa9e7a28905725
|
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 | 0.05 undated 0 | - | - |
4
envelope 0-8
|
4
0-8
|
| c07 | Islamic world | 0.05 undated 0 | - | - |
3
envelope 0-6
|
3
0-6
|
| c08 | Islamic world | 0.20 undated 0 | - | - |
9
envelope 1-17
|
9
1-17
|
| c09 | Islamic world | 0.38 undated 0 | - | - |
13
envelope 1-24
|
13
1-24
|
| c10 | Islamic world | 0.30 undated 0 | - | - |
8
envelope 1-14
|
8
1-14
|
| c11 | Islamic world | 2.91 undated 0 | - | - |
55
envelope 6-105
|
55
6-105
|
| c12 | Islamic world | 4.57 undated 0 | - | - |
65
envelope 7-124
|
65
7-124
|
| c13 | Islamic world | 13.04 undated 0 | - | - |
175
envelope 17-332
|
175
17-332
|
| c14 | Islamic world | 16.51 undated 0 | - | - |
248
envelope 25-471
|
248
25-471
|
| c15 | Islamic world | 19.65 undated 0 | - | - |
326
envelope 33-620
|
326
33-620
|
| c16 | Islamic world | 30.44 undated 0 | - | - |
505
envelope 51-960
|
505
51-960
|
| c17 | Islamic world | 45.51 undated 0 | - | - |
755
envelope 76-1435
|
755
76-1435
|
| c18 | Islamic world | 46.62 undated 0 | - | - |
774
envelope 77-1470
|
774
77-1470
|
| c19 | Islamic world | 34.88 undated 0 | - | - |
579
envelope 58-1100
|
579
58-1100
|
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
- 87
- Spec
- grounded_islamic.v1
- Input snapshot
- 550131b9bec6f639f82865aed4e591810d44f1d4190aaa4b577aefec372cdb30
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 0-8
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 4 (0-8), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c07 / Islamic world
3 range 0-6
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 3 (0-6), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c08 / Islamic world
9 range 1-17
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 9 (1-17), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c09 / Islamic world
13 range 1-24
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 13 (1-24), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c10 / Islamic world
8 range 1-14
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 8 (1-14), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c11 / Islamic world
55 range 6-105
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 55 (6-105), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c12 / Islamic world
65 range 7-124
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 65 (7-124), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c13 / Islamic world
175 range 17-332
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 175 (17-332), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c14 / Islamic world
248 range 25-471
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 248 (25-471), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c15 / Islamic world
326 range 33-620
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 326 (33-620), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c16 / Islamic world
505 range 51-960
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 505 (51-960), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c17 / Islamic world
755 range 76-1435
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 755 (76-1435), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c18 / Islamic world
774 range 77-1470
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 774 (77-1470), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
c19 / Islamic world
579 range 58-1100
single_method
from 1 method
- Language-attributed extant survival: 579 (58-1100), run 87 Region inferred from language, not recorded origin. Arabic low-discrimination / widest envelope
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.
papyri.info (IDP: DDbDP / HGV / APIS / DCLP) (175 records)
source site
This data is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), with copyright and attribution to the respective projects. Quoted verbatim from https://raw.gi…
Sample shelfmarks: jra suppl. 28, jra suppl. 28, jra suppl. 28