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CodeOriginal MMM Research QuestionRevised MMM questionQuestion functionLink to SPARQL Bibale results – public interface Bibale interface – commentsOxford results – public interfaceOxford interface – commentsSDBM results – public interfaceSDBM interface – commentsMMM results - user interfaceMMM interface - comments
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A1How many manuscripts from pre-1600 produced in European countries survive?How many manifestation singletons have a production event in Europe before 1601?data testingmanuscript count: http://yasgui.org/short/tp0EEwhus manuscript details: http://yasgui.org/short/Lfcj5pRe0Currently impossible.
One cannot search by date span, and one cannot search by place either (not by country, let alone by continent).		Can’t filter by “Europe” (only by a specific country). Each century has to be filtered separately – can’t aggregate “pre-1601”. Can show “how many MSS have a production event in England in the 14thcentury?”You would need to add up the numbers of MSS from each century manually to get a “pre-1601” total. You would also need to add up the numbers of MSS from each country manually to get a total for Europe. Or you could use the “Advanced Search” functionality, which enables you to select multiple places or multiple centuries (when I tried to select both, the interface crashed).In advanced search, limit Manuscript Date to terminating at 1601. Then limit these results with Place facet. This search returns 90,185 Entries. Then open “Manuscript” facet to see all ms records associated with place.It is possible to get to only MS records associated with place, but it is not easy to count the faceted list of results. We can only easily answer how many Entries, not MS Records.In "Manuscripts" perspective: (1) Filter by "Production Place = Europe" (produces 71,718); (2) Set "Production Date" timeslider to 1601. Result is 67,231. (Toby)In step (1), the figure shown next to "Europe" in the left-hand panel is 82,971 - this is the count of all Production Places, which is greater than the count of all Manuscripts
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A2[A2] How many manuscripts survive that contain Spanish texts written in gothic rotunda were produced in Castile for an abbey or convent? Then show me those which were owned during the nineteenth century by English private collectors; Then show me those which are now owned by an institution in North America.List all manifestation singletons containing an expression in X language and the associated works, refined by those produced in X place (ignore script query), commissioned by an Actor (which could be further refined by type of Actor, set of Actors, etc.); then limit this set by those owned by an Actor of X type (Person, Institution) associated with X place and having life events dated in X date range; limit by those with last known location in X places Question for Mikko: how do we construct a SPARQL query using last known location?This is an advanced SPARQL query that we could return to laterhttps://api.triplydb.com/s/TYwNXhTLX
https://api.triplydb.com/s/GPIA0tnI1→ manuscripts produced in Castile et al; manuscripts with a known commissioner (produced anywhere, not just Castile; count is 169 [2021: zero results...?]) ;
https://api.triplydb.com/s/Z3tiAWxgW → query to find all distinct places where Spanish manuscripts were created ;
https://api.triplydb.com/s/U9ja-Fi4b→ query to find manuscripts produced in Castile and limited # of cities associated with Castille in MMM; then find associated owners ; ??		Currently impossible. This is a complex question anyway.
Not possible. You can filter the list of manuscripts by language (Spanish) and then by place of origin (Spain - not region) - which results in 14 manuscripts. But you can then only examine the results individually to analyse their provenance and history.You cannot filter a list of manuscripts by their script.Can browse language facet for Spanish, which gives 2027 results. These results can be narrowed down by items in the Place facet linked to "Castile" (9) and "astilla et Leon (13). From there individual entries must be analyzed for data related to 19th century owners.SDBM does not record script typeIn the "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) filter by language = Spanish. (B) Then filter by production place = Castile. (C) Then, as a proxy for filtering by script, filter by date of production, e.g. 1100-1450. This produces 34 results. (D) Then look through the list of owners to identify medieval Spanish abbeys/convents (3), 19th-century private English owners (5), and 20th-century North American institutions (2). (E) Repeat this process for manuscripts produced in places in Castilla-Leon or Castilla-La Mancha (since these are separate from Castile in the TGN hierarchy). (Toby)(A) It is not possible to filter manuscripts by script. (B) It is not possible to filter manuscripts by type of owner (private / public / institutional / religious house etc.). (C) An alternative approach would be to start from the "Agents" view, and filter for "type of owner = group" + active in Castile. You can then see the manuscripts and works associated with these institutions as owners. You would then need to look at each of these manuscripts individually to see their subsequent owners.
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A3[A3] What French collectors purchased manuscripts since the end of the Wars of Religion (after 1598)? Where are their manuscripts now?List all manifestation singletons which have an associated provenance event located in a specific country or region X. Then limit the result set to those provenance events with a date later than Date A. Then list all the Last Known Locations of the manifestation singletons in the result set. similar to B5 question (which is partially answered); need advice on Last Known Location query; will be helpful for documentationCurrently impossible. One can currenly not run a query on transactions of a specific period (eg. after a specififc year).One general problem (in Bibale, in the UI and elsewhere) remains that it is difficult to define a "French collector", since it can involve birthplace, but also any other place of activity. We have discussed this at seevral occasions.You can filter the list of "People" by role (e.g., "Owner, signer, or donor". But you cannot further filter this list by country - whether this is place of birth, place of death, or place of residence.The interface does not display any information about individual people (dates or places or birth and death, etc.).This question can't easily be answered. You can search for SDBM Names that are linked to France and have life dates after 1598, but then you'd have to run separate queries to find people linked to places nested within France (there's currently no way to search for France and all of its children within the same query). Once you found all of these names, you could then view the entries linked to them and determine last known locations, but this would be very time consuming.SDBM could be improved by allowing for nested place searching (the data is in there, it just isn't possible in the UI)In the "Actors" perspective: (A) Limit the type of actor to E21: Person. Then (B) filter by Activity Location = France. This gives 1,698 results. Then (C) filter the "Birth" timeline to births after 1550. This gives 572 results. Then (D) look at the individual manuscripts associated with each person to see their subsequent history. (Toby)You need to sort the resulting list by "Role" to distinguish manuscript/collection owners from authors of works. At step (C) you could also filter the "Death" timeline for deaths after 1600. This produces 475 results. If you combine the births and deaths timeline limits, the result is 475 people. There is no obvious way of filtering the list of manuscripts associated with these people.
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B1[B1] How many manuscripts containing texts by Ramon Llul were sold in the 19th century? (Must consider all spelling variations of name: RESOLVED BY RECON)[B1] How many manuscripts containing texts by Ramon Llul were sold in the 19th century? (Must consider all spelling variations of name: RESOLVED BY RECON)SPARQL queryOne can run a query on "Lullus" and filter the word only in the field "Contenu indicatif (auteur, titre)". Then one can look (by simply opening the files) if one of these was sold in the 19th century. For the moment this is not so complicated, since there is only one manuscript with the word "Lull" in the field "Contenu indicatif (auteur, titre)". Then one can also run the query "lullus" and open the three Works in the result list to see if any of them appears in a manuscript. This, however, is not the case for the moment.You can browse or search to find all manuscripts with Ramon Llull as an author. But their provenance/history can only be analysed by looking at each manuscript individually.The preferred form of the name is Llull - but for pseudonymous works the form "Lull" is used!? The search is robust enough to find them all whichever variant spelling is used. But searching by "LLul" produces no results.Not easily answered. You can search for entries that list Llull as an author with provenance dates in the 19th century, but few entries list specific provenance dates (7 entries result from the above search). A better way would be to search for source dates in the 19th century, but in the current SDBM interface it isn't possible to combine an author facet with a range of source dates within the same search. SDBM could be improved by allowing for nested place searching (the data is in there, it just isn't possible in the UI)In the "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) search for Author "Llul" - this finds "Ramon Llull, with 343 results. (B) Filter for Transfer of Custody date = 1800-1900, with four results. (Toby)The "Transfer of Custody" results are understated, given that many provenance events are only categorized as "Activity". But you can't tackle this question from the "Events" view, since that only lists manuscripts, not authors or works.
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B3[B3] Who collects manuscripts with texts by Ramon Llul?List all manifestation singletons which contain a work with a specific Person X as author. Then show all Actors associated with a provenance event related to these manifestations singletons. (Could also limit the result set by the dates of the provenance events?)build off query of previous question; include provenance peopleOne can run such a query in several steps (see B1), but for the moment there are no results in the data.You can browse or search to find all manuscripts with Ramon Llull as an author. But their provenance/history can only be analysed by looking at each manuscript individually.You can quickly find all entries with texts by Ramon Llull using a basic search. From those results, you can browse the Provenance facet to see a list of all associated provenance agents. However, this information isn't easily exported. In the "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) search for Author "Llul" - this finds "Ramon Llull, with 343 results. (B) Look through the list of Owners to see which owners have been associated with these manuscripts. (Toby)There isn't a way to filter on current or past owners, or to sort the owners by date. But you could sort the results lists on either the "Event" or "Transfer of Custody Date" column to get some indication of recent or current ownership.
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B4[B4] How many times do texts by Ramon Llul’s appear with texts by Albertus Magnus in the same manuscript?List / count all manifestation singletons which contain a work with a specific Person X as author. Then limit the result set to those manifestation singletons which also contain a work with a specific Person Y as author.continue building from previous queryOne can run such a query in several steps (see B1), but for the moment there are no results in the data.It is possible to do a keyword search of the Manuscript records for a combination of the two names, e.g. "Albertus AND Lull" or "Albertus OR Lull". Using "Llull" in this search produces no results, however, even though that is the preferred form in the Author record - because the search is on the text of the Manuscript entry and that uses "Lull", not on the Authors file which uses "Llull".You cannot combine two authors from the Authors list in order to identify manuscripts in which both authors occur.There are 16 entries that contain texts by both Llull and Albertus Magnus in the SDBM.In the "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) search for Author = "Llul" - this finds "Ramon Llull", with 343 results. (B) Look through the list of manuscripts to see which of them also contain Albertus as an author. (Toby)If you select two or more authors in the "Author" filter, the results are combined as an OR operation (not as AND). It is not possible to search the Llull result set to find those containing "Albertus". Sorting the Llull result set by Author is of limited help, since a manuscript may contain authors other than Llull or Albertus, and only the first author is displayed in the summary list of results.
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B5What was the most popular text by a medieval author in France in the 17th CenturyProduce a list of mss owned in France in the 17th century, sorted by "work"original SPARQL Friday question; "popularity" can't be determined with our datahttps://api.triplydb.com/s/uCrsnH_-V
(Doesn't work anymore, the mmms:person_place is deprecated)		Currently impossible. This is a complex question anyway.
One cannot search by date span or by place.		Not possible. You can't even sort the list of "works" by the number of times they occur in Oxford manuscripts.Difficult to answer since source date is not searchable in a date rangeThe closest approximation is probably as follows. (1) In the "Manuscripts" perspective, limit the "Transfer of Custody date" to 17th century. This produces 373 results. (2) Then limit the "Transfer of Custody place" to France. This produces 30 results. (3) Then sort by Author or Work. Five medieval authors are represented, each with one Work. (Toby)(A) This does not cover the full range of ownership Events. (B) The "Events" view can be filtered by date range (17th century) and by place (France), but the result is a list of manuscripts, not of works or authors. COULD WE ADD WORKS/AUTHORS TO THE EVENTS VIEW? (C) The "Works" view cannot be filtered by Place or Event (only by language or production date).
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C2[C2] Did Sir Thomas Phillipps own a thirteenth-century bible with historiated initials? Show manuscripts owned by/associated with X Actor [cf F5]; then show me manifestations containing Work X; limit manifestations to X Date; further refine by finding those with historiated initialssparql; good for documenting limitations of MMM data (SDBM can answer this question, Bibale maybe not)A query for "Phillipps" and filter on Collections, shows us the file of Phillipps library. At the moment there are some 500 manuscripts described. In the list, however, we only see shelfmarks, so we will have to open them one by one to see if there is a 13th-century bible among them. Alternatively, we can do a general query on the word "bible" and filter only the field "Contenu indicatif (auteur, titre)" and only on the object "Livre (Exemplaire". This gives a list of about 140 manuscripts. In this list of shelfmarks we will have to open them one by one to see if there is a 13th-century bible among them.(1) You can easily identify all manuscripts formerly owned by Phillipps by selecting his name from the list of Persons. But the resulting list of manuscripts cannot be filtered or analysed in any way - except by inspecting each entry individually. (2) An Advanced Search for "Phillipps" can be filtered for century of origin and presence or absence of decoration. But it cannot be refined by title/contents/works.Yes: there are 3 entries that describe 13th century bibles that contain historiated initials with Phillipps as a provenance agent.In "Manuscripts" perspective: (1) Filter for "Phillipps" in Owner - result is 8,752 manuscripts. Then (2) search in "Work" filter for "bible" - result is 130 manuscripts. Then (3) search in "Historiated Initials" filter for "minimum = 1". The combined result is 10 manuscripts. Sorting on the "Historiated Initials" column shows a range from 1 to 150 initials. (Toby)If you search in the "Work" filter for "biblia" instead, this produces 1 additional manuscript with historiated initials.
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F1[F1] Combien de manuscrits enluminés se trouvent dans une collection particulière ? (volumétrie)List / count the manifestation singletons which are associated with Collection A (or with Person X as owner). Limit the result set to those with a specific physical feature B.SPARQL query; interface testingThere is no simple way to search this. But any collection present in Bibale can be opened and will include a list of associated books. The files of these books should then be opened one by one to see if they are illuminated or not. I would like to remind that one of the problems of the Bibale data in the MMM UI is that the degrees of certainty are not visible. So if a certain collection in Bibale is associated to two manuscripts it contains, one it mMAY contain, and one it NOT contains, this collection will appear in the MMM UI as if (as far as the Bibale data are concerned) it contains four manuscripts...An Advanced Search for "Phillipps" can be filtered for presence or absence of decoration in the resulting list of manuscripts.The Oxford catalogue only covers manuscripts now in Oxford collections. It does not cover the whole of a former owner's collection, unless the whole of that collection was acquired by the Bodleian.You can easily limit results to entries owned by a particular person/institution, and then further limit by any number of physical characteristics.In the "Manuscripts" perspective: select a specific owner in the"Owner" filter. Then combine this with a selection of "minimum = 1" in one or all of the filters for "Miniatures", "Decorated Initials", or "Historiated initials". For Thomas Phillipps as owner, there are 555 manuscripts with at least one decorated initial, 198 with at least one historiated initial, and none with miniatures. There are 14 with both types of initials. (Toby)You can also filter on "Collection" instead of "Owner". For the Phillipps Catalogus, this produces results of 413 with decorated initials, 141 with historiated initials, and 10 with both types of initials.
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F3[F3] Qui sont les donateurs et les propriétaires d’une collection ?List the Actors who/which are associated with a specific Collection A, and also list their relationship to Collection A.first half of question: SPARQL query; interface testing. Listing relationships to other collections is difficult with our data. We can show connections to other collections, but not specific types of relationships in detail (?) Any collection present in Bibale can be opened and will include a list of associated books, as well as associations to donators, though one should also look in the file of the person to look for assoctiations with donators. The collection will also show links to one or several owners.The Oxford catalogue can be filtered to see a list of former owners and/or donors across the whole of the modern Oxford collection. But there is no way of filtering for former owner against specific sub-collections (e.g., colleges, named Bodleian collections). SDBM doesn't include donor relationships (though a general chain of ownership can be established within entries, showing a direct transfer of custody from one provenance agent to the next). Some entries may state explicitly that someone donated the manuscript to another collection, but this information isn't searchable. In most cases, the best you can do is show a generic association between two provenance agents.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, select one (or more) of the Collections in the "Collections" filter. Then look at the list of owners displayed in the "Owners" filter. This shows the number of MSS in that collection which were also associated with specific owners. This information can also be visualized using the "Chart" functionality. (Toby)
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F4[F4] Faire des recherches par sujet, par technique, par langue, par artiste voire par pigments (plus d’encre d'or, argent et pourpre) dans une collection.[Similar to F5?] List all manifestation singletons associated with a specific Collection A (or with a specific Actor X as owner). Then limit the result set by physical feature OR by language OR by associated Work. (Don't think the MMM dataset includes subject categories for Works.)SPARQL query; interface testingDirect searches on these fields cannot be operated for the moment, but any collection present in Bibale can be opened and will include a list of associated books. These books can then be opened one by one to see if there are data on language, technique, etc. Fields for language, technique, artist, pigments exist in Bibale, but very few data have been entered in them.(1) The Manuscripts list can be filtered by type of material, by language, and by the presence or absence of decoration. (2) The People list can be filtered by role = scribe, or role = artist, with associated lists of manuscripts against each person.SDBM doesn't have pigment, technique or subject searching, but you can search by language and artist easily.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, select one (or more) of the Collections in the "Collections" filter. You can then inspect the other filters to see various characteristics of the MSS in that collection: material, size, presence of initials and decoration, and language. You can browse the list of Works contained in these MSS, but not by subject. (Toby)
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F5Particularites d'une collection (sujet, technique, lieu de production etc.) ? Quelles en sont les lacunes ? Quelles en sont les dominantes ?Show manuscripts owned by/associated with X Actor, then show me distribution of places of production; then show me distribution of dates.sparql endpoint; data testing; possible documentation/SPARQL group question (to show how to combine 2 criteria)Browse to find a manuscript; in the record look at the list of associations with persons and with collections. These two lists can both be ordered by the dates and by the places that are mentioned in the respective columns on the right, but these are the dates and places of the association, not of the origin of the manuscript; one cannot filter by those.The dates and the places of the associations are not often present in the current Bibale data.Browse “Manuscripts”, then filter by “Collection”. Select one Collection, and then filter by “Origin” (to see a list of countries and regions, with numbers of MSS) or by “Century” (to see a list of centuries with numbers of MSS).The filters for the physical characteristics of a collection will only show “Decoration” (yes or no) and “Material” (by type).Limit search results to those Entries with X Name as Provenance Agent. From this search results page, browse the Place facet to see a list of all places of production associated with those Entries (Numerical Sort=number of entry appearances). Browse Manuscript Date facet similarly.It’s not easy to visualize the distribution of places of production.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, select an owner or a collection. Then use the "Production Places" map visualization to see the distribution of their MSS by place of production. For the distribution of production dates, you can sort the list of MSS by "Production date". (Toby)
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F7[F7] Vie d'une collection, vie d'un livre enluminé ?Visualization functionality (Sankey diagrams)? OR (Part 1:) List all manifestation singletons associated with a specific Collection A (or with a specific Actor X as owner). Then show all provenance and production events associated with them. (Part 2:) For a specific manifestation singleton, list all provenance and production events associated with it.SPARQL query; visualization inspirationAny collection present in Bibale can be opened and will include a list of associations (to books, to persons, to works, etc.). This will give the user information about the live of the collection. When one has an account with administrator rights, one can visualise this in a diagram (a feature that should become available to all in the future).There are no visualizations, though it might (remotely) be possible to export the raw TEI files from Github and process them into some visualization software.There's no way for a user to create visualizations within the database, but you can export any search results as a .csv, and then use different software to create a visualization with that file. You could search for all of the entries linked to a certain person/institution, or all of the entries describing the same manuscript, to create the visualization.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, select one of the collections listed in the "Collections" filter. You can then visualize the life of this collection through the "Production Places" map, the "Last Known Locations" map, and the "Migrations" map. You can get the same visualizations for a specific individual MS as well by searching on its "Label" details in the "Label" filter. The "landing-page" for a specific individual MS also provides a full history of the life of that MS in tabular, rather than graphical, form. (Toby)
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F8Quels manuscrits sont probablement perdus ?List all manifestation singletons which do NOT have an associated Last Observed Location (??) - Is there a way of limiting the result set by date (e.g., Last Observed Location has an associated date range earlier than (say) 1950)?data testing (how does Last Observed/Known Location work?)Any list of manuscripts in Bibale can be displayed in shelfmark order. Thus by hand one can see which names are indeed a shelfmark and which are another designation (sale so and so, inventory such and such, etc.). But those that do not have a current shelfmark are of course not necessarily lost. One canBut a general browse on the word “manuscript” leads us to about 6800 manuscripts, so sorting that list out by hand is a long story…The Oxford catalogue only covers MSS known to be in an Oxford library today.This is impossible to answer in the SDBM interface.We have no way to search via Last Observed Location.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, you can sort by "Last Known Location" to identify those MSS which have no "Last known location." (Toby)
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F9Quel manuscrit a été vendu et n’est pas identifié au sein d’une collection à l’heure actuelle ? (catalogue de vente)As for F8, but limited to manifestation singletons which are associated with at least one "sold" provenance event.data testingSee F8. In the result list all names starting with “Vente” (sale) have no current shelfmark and are only known by their last sale.The Oxford catalogue only covers MSS known to be in an Oxford library today.This is difficult to answer in the SDBM interface. The best we can do is search for Entries that represent recent sales, and then isolate individually those that have no known buyer or more recent observation.The best you can do is to browse through those MSS with no "Last known location" (see F8), and identify those with at least one "Provenance Event". (Toby)
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G1[G1] Quelles copies d'un texte sont enluminées ?List all manifestation singletons which contain a specific work X. Then limit the result set to those manifestation singletons with a specific physical feature Y.SPARQL queryNot easy to do at the moment in Bibale. Technically, a query for a text could show you the list of manuscripts whereafter you can open thses files one by one to see if there are data on the illumination, but there are few text files and few data on illumination.The list of Manuscripts can be filtered by the presence or absence of decoration; each manuscript record would then have to be inspected individually. The list of Works cannot be filtered in this way.There are links to Digital.Bodleian where relevant, enabling you to view the digital facsimile of a manuscript.SDBM entries record the count of miniatures and/or initials, but not simply whether a manuscript is illuminated or not. SDBM also doesn't have a work concept. The best you can do is search for a specific title, and then limit to those entries whose miniatures or initial fields aren't blank.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, search for a specific Work using the "Work" filter. The resulting list of MSS can then be filtered or browsed for the presence of miniatures, decorated initials, or historiated initials. (Toby)This cannot be done through the "Works" perspective, however.
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G2Quelle position occupe une copie dans l'histoire de la transmission d'un texte ? Y a-t-il des exemplaires uniques des oeuvres ?Show me all the works associated with only one associated manuscriptdata testingThis is not possible in Bibale (or can only be done by selecting each work separately to see how many MSS are linked to it, but even that is tricky because simply calling up a list of all the works is currently not possible)Can only be done by selecting each of the 10,987 Works separately to see how many MSS are linked to each specific Work.Can only filter the list of Works by language and subject.When browsing the Title facet, sort Titles by Numerical Sort, then navigate to page 310 of the results, where Titles appearing in only one Entry begin to appear in the results. This will return results related to Entries, not MS Records.See above comments. You can browse the list of "Works" to see which works only have a single MS attached. This does mean going through more than 400,000 entries for Works, however. You can also sort the list of Works by manuscript, but this still involves inspecting all the entries for Works. (Toby)The most effective way of doing this is through a SPARQL query.
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G4[G4] Quelles sont les versions existantes d'une oeuvre ? Qui a fait une traduction française d’un texte ancien ? Quand ?(Part 1:) What is meant by version? This might just be the equivalent of Recon for Works. (Part 2:) List all Persons with life-dates earlier than a specific date or date range (e.g. 500AD), then list all Works associated with each Person. Then limit the Works to those which have a specific language A, and list all the Persons associated with the resulting Works, together with the life-dates of these Persons.SPARQL (complicated)A query of a name of an author or a title of a work with a subsequent filter on the object "Work" can easily lead you to any work, after which the file of the work will show if there are associations to other works signifying the one being a translation or a reworked version of the other.The list of Works can be browsed to see versions of the same Work in different languages - but only inasmuch as they are contained in Oxford manuscripts. The names of the translators and the dates of the translations are not normally specified.e.g. Augustine: De civitate Dei [Latin], De civitate Dei [Italian] - but not: Augustine, City of God.SDBM doesn't have works. You can search by various title names to gather different versions of the same text, including versions in different languages. Depending on the entry data, this would allow you to determine the date of the first appearance of a text in a certain language.In the "Works" perspective, search for a specific work using the "Title" filter (together with the "Author" filter if necessary). The resulting list can be filtered by language to see different translations of that Work, and the MSS in which they appear. The translator's name, if recorded, will appear in the "Possible author" column of the results list. (Toby)
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G5[5] Quelles sont les differentes publications existantes [manuscript copies] d'un texte ? (date, lieu de production, personne(s) responsable(s) etc.)Show me all manifestation singletons containing Work X; then show me where and when produceddata testingBrowse to find the specific work you are looking for; then in the record of this work one will find in the list of “associations” the list of all the manuscripts it is linked to.Cannot filter the list of MSS containing a specific Work (e.g., by places or dates of production). You would have to examine each MS record individually to find this information.Browse by “Works”, select a specific Work, and see a list of all Oxford MSS containing that Work.Cannot filter the list of MSS containing a specific Work (e.g., by places or dates of production). You would have to examine each MS record individually to find this information.Browse via the Title facet, or search on the Title field. Then limit results to entries produced in a certain location (using the Place facet or field). This will return results related to Entries, not MS Records.SDBM has no work concept. You can only search on titles, which are rarely standardized. Since SDBM MS Records don’t contain any data (all data is stored in Entry record only), you can’t search on the content of MS Records.Browse the "Works" perspective (or search for a specific work). Select a Work to view its "landing page". This lists all MSS of that Work, together with their dates and places of production. (Toby)
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How many manuscripts were produced in Northern Italy and/or Lombardy? sparql query is actually for Flemish mss.Show me manuscript singletons with a production event in X Placedata testing; SPARQL querymanuscript count: https://api.triplydb.com/s/rhEa41JQY
manuscript details: https://api.triplydb.com/s/r8KsjgwUa		One can do a general browse on the word “Lombardie” (for example) and then filter by the field “lieu” and by the object “livre”.The counting in the list of results has to be done by hand.
Since this is a browse and not a search, problems can rise with certain names.
It works only with the Geonames terms we have used (modern town, modern region, modern country), not for historic regions or other geographic entities.		Can filter places of production by some regions (Flanders, Dalmatia, etc.) but not by regions within most countries.You would need to go through each of the 1,763 MSS produced in Italy and calculate specific regions manually.Search on the Place field, or browse via Place facets. Searching on only “Northern Italy” or “Lombardy” returns 6,467 Entries. If you search on all of the regions of Northern Italy, 6,538 (due to SDBM nesting errors). One can open “Manuscript” facet to see all ms records associated with place.Results are dependent on the terms/facets a used for Northern Italy (and still will probably not be precise). We can only easily answer how many Entries, not MS Records. It is possible to get to MS records associated with place, but it is not easy to count the faceted list of results, and you do not get orphan records.In "Manuscripts" perspective: (1) Filter on "Production Place" by traversing the hierarchy to reach "Lombardy" - then tick box. Result is 702. (2) Clear the result from Step 1, then filter on "Production Place" by traversing the hierarchy to reach "Northern Italy. Result is 944. (The alternative is to use the "Bounding Box" option under Filter Options, and draw a rectangle around the geographical areas. This gives a result in the order of 6,186 manuscripts.) (Toby)(A) You cannot combine two different places in the "Production Place" filter. (B) In Step (1), the figure shown against "Lombardy" in the left-hand panel is 728 rather than 702. The figure for "Northern Italy" is 944. (C) The Bounding Box can only be rectangular, and cannot follow the contours of geographical regions. (D) "Northern Italy" is not a hierarchical region in the TGN vocabulary, so Step (2) will not pick up regions like the Veneto which are in Northern Italy but not in Lombardy.
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How many manuscripts were produced in Northern Italy or Lombardy?Show me manuscript singletons with a production event in X PlaceFor Low Countries: manuscript count: http://yasgui.org/short/j_N2hvM5t
manuscript details: http://yasgui.org/short/zkkgIJxnu. For Northern Italy and Lombardy: manuscript count: https://api.triplydb.com/s/2qnbDssCJ
manuscript details: https://api.triplydb.com/s/RfnidLZ2R 		One can obtain results by general browses on the modern countries “Netherlands”, “Belgium” and “Luxemburg” and then filter by the field “lieu” and by the object “livre”. Then one could add similar browse on the region “Nord-Pas-de-Calais” to obtain more accurately the historic region of the “Low Countries”.There is a complication, because In Bibale1 we used French country names (“Pays-Bas”) and in Bibale2 English ones (“Netherlands”, because of Geonames); so one should actually browse not three but six times !Can filter places of production by “Flanders”Filtering MSS by place of production is limited to countries and a few regions.Search on the Place field, or browse via Place facets. Searching on Low Countries returns 9,171 Entries. One can open “Manuscript” facet to see all ms records associated with place.Results are dependent on the terms/facets a used for Northern Italy (and still will probably not be precise). We can only easily answer how many Entries, not MS Records. It is possible to get to only MS records associated with place, but it is not easy to count the faceted list of results, and you do not get orphan records.In "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) Filter on "Production Place" by traversing the hierarchy to reach "Low Countries" - the result is 151. Then filter separately for Belgium (1,784), Flanders (2,413), Luxembourg (15), Netherlands (2,577), Southern Netherlands (307), Spanish Netherlands (1), Westhoek (19). Alternatively: (B) Use "Production Place" filter options and select "Bounding Box". Then draw a rectangle around the approximate area of the "Low Countries" - result will be something like 7,395. (Toby)(1) "Low Countries" is not a hierarchical region in the TGN vocabulary. You have to pick at least 8 different terms from the same level of the hierarchy under "Europe". (2) The Bounding Box can only be rectangular, and cannot follow the contours of geographical regions.
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How many manuscripts were produced in London in the 15th century?Show me manuscript singletons with a production event in X Place with a X date range.data testing; SPARQL query writtenmanuscript count: http://yasgui.org/short/j_N2hvM5t manuscript details: http://yasgui.org/short/zkkgIJxnuOne can obtain a list of results by general browses on modern places (e.g. London) and then filter by the field “lieu” and by the object “livre”. But currently one cannot search by date range.Can filter places of production by country and a few regions, but not by a specific city or town. Can add a century filter to countries of production.You would need to go through each of the 1,313 MSS produced in England in the 15th century and calculate manually how many of these were produced in London. Alternatively, you can do a keyword search for “London” and look through the results.Use Advanced Search to limit Manuscript Date to 1400-1501 and Production Place to London. 348 Entries. It is possible to get to only MS records associated with date, but it is not easy to count the faceted list of results.We can only easily answer how many Entries, not MS Records. It is possible to get to MS records associated with a date range, but it is not easy to count the faceted list of results, and you do not get orphan records.In "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) use the "Production Place" filter to find "Greater London" in the hierarchy under "England". This gives 483 manuscripts. Then (B) use the "Production Date" timeslider to limit the results to the 15th century. This gives 266 manuscripts. (Toby)(1) The "Production Place" timeslider is awkward to use with precision. The closest date range I could get was 1382 to 1495. (2) You might need to search the Production Places to find that "Greater London" is the correct term.
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How many manuscripts formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps are in British Libraries?List all manifestation singletons with former owner X. Then limit the set to those with Last Known Location equivalent to Place Y and owner equivalent to Institution (not Person). COMPARE TO: list all manifestation singletons with former owner X. Then limit the set to those associated with Institutions (not Persons) in Place Y.data testing; comparison good for documentationA general browse leads easily to Sir Thomas Phillipps and thus to his collection. In the record of his collection we find a list of manuscripts owned by him (currently just over 400, thanks to Synnøve’s work). This list is ordered by shelfmark and one can count by hand all British libraries.Browse by “People” and select Thomas Phillipps. His role can then be filtered for “owner”. The result is a list of Oxford university and college MSS formerly owned by Phillipps.The Oxford catalogue only covers MSS which are known to be in Oxford libraries today.This one is not really possible. The best you can do is limit search results to Entries with Phillipps as Provenance Agent. After that, you would have to go through every Entry/MS Record individually to determine which were last observed in British libraries.In "Manuscripts" perspective: filter on "Owner" for Thomas Phillipps. This produces 8,752 manuscripts. Then filter on "Transfer of Custody Date" for dates after 1872 (death of Phillipps). This produces 916 manuscripts. You can then browse the list of owners (in the Owner filter panel on the left) for those which are British libraries. (Alternatively, you can filter additionally on "Transfer of Custody Place" for places in Britain.) (Toby)This is pretty clunky! It might be easier once "Last Known Location" has been implemented. (An alternative approach might involve starting with "Events", selecting "E7 Activity", and limiting to "date > 1872" + collection = "Phillipps". This produces 1,579 events which can be sorted and browsed by manuscript label and/or date.)
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What is the average number of folios in a book of hours?List all manifestation singletons which contain a Work with the string "book of hours" in the title (but what about languages other than English)? Then list the number of folios associated with each manifestation singleton. Count the total number of folios and divide by the number of manifestation singletons.quantitative queryhttp://yasgui.org/short/2kgtc2cfSOne can do a general browse on “heures” or “d’heures”, and select the manuscripts in the result list. But there is currently no way of selecting or displaying their sizes without opening these records one by one.Few manuscripts in Bibale have data on their size.Can find MSS which contain “book of hours”, but each language has a separate Work entry. Cannot then count or average the folio numbers but can browse folio counts of search results.This is not feasible in the interface, but if you exported your search results to .csv you could arrive at an estimate. Limit results to those with Book of Hours (etc.) as Title, export results, then find the average folio count in .csv file.The answer will relate to the average folio # in Entries, not MS Records.In "Manuscripts" perspective: search under "Works" filter for "hours". This produces 4,319 manuscripts. The number of folios is displayed for each manuscript, where available. There is no way to find the average number of folios across the full list of manuscripts within the MMM interface itself. But if you export the results of the search and manipulate the resulting CSV file, you can find the average number of folios in that way. The answer is 159.86 folios (across a total of 3,899 manuscripts). (Toby)You would also need to screen out of the spreadsheet those manuscripts which are only fragments, not entire codices. You should also add "heures" and "horae" to the search.
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Which collectors bought manuscripts from WIlfrid Voynich? Where were they located? What do we know about the kind of manuscripts he sold, and their earlier histories?Added 21 January 2020 by Tobyhttps://api.triplydb.com/s/nkWL4Kn_tYou can search for Voynich as a person, which links you to his collection and two of the MSS which were part of that collection. But you can't follow Voynich's activities as a seller of MSS.Voynich does not appear in the Oxford catalogue, presumably because he neither sold nor owned any of the Oxford MSS.Browsing the list of "Sellers" for Voynich produces 47 records. From there you can see the list of "Buyers" for 33 of these items. You can also see a list of the 52 works contained in these MSS. Browsing the "Provenance" facet for these items displays 17 previous or subsequent owners.To find more details of the Buyers and other owners, you have to select each one separately.In the "Manuscripts" perspective, search for "Voynich" as an Owner. This produces a list of 213 MSS which can be browsed to see the other owners of each MS. To find more details of the other owners, you have to select each one separately.The list of MSS includes Voynich acting in the roles of "collection owner" and "manuscript owner" as well as "selling agent".
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Which prose works were written in Old French between 1200 and 1250 (or in manuscripts produced before 1325)?In the "Manuscripts" perspective: (A) Filter on "Language" for all languages containing "French" - 13 of them, with a total of 12,660 manuscripts. Then (B) filter for "manuscript production date" between 1200 and 1325. There are 2,430 results. Then (C) filter for "production place" = France. This gives 910 results. You can then sort by "Work". (Toby)There is no way to distinguish prose from poetry. Nor can you filter for works written between 1200 and 1250 - even if you use the "Works" view. For languages, the SDBM is the only source which actually distinguishes Old French from French.
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How long did manuscripts stay in the stock of a specific selling agent like Tregaskis? How many times was an individual MS advertised for sale, and over what period?This query requires SPARQL - the "Manuscripts" perspective can show MSS sold by Tregaskis with a list of transfer dates, but cannot perform any calculations on the data.
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