Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.

Anglicana traits

Count of checklist traits pointing to Anglicana cursive.

Secretary traits

Count of checklist traits pointing to Secretary hand.

Compare the number of observed Anglicana traits against the number of observed Secretary traits on your checklist and return the majority script with the tally margin, declaring a tie indeterminate (transparent arithmetic comparator, no contested letterform weighting). The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Verdict

Majority script or indeterminate on a tie.

Trait margin

Absolute difference between the two trait tallies.

• Script and manuscript evidence varies by language, region, institution, period, scribe, material, restoration, and cataloguing convention. A heuristic flag or score is not an authoritative date, hand attribution, reading, provenance, or conservation diagnosis.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.

• Carbon / Iron-Gall Note Generator

  Generate a condition-note verdict for carbon versus iron-gall ink under the stated counting rule: three documented carbon traits (opaque black core, black in reflectography, water-smudge resistant) are counted against three documented iron-gall traits (brown edge tinge, halo bleeding, corrosion holes), and the majority side wins while a tie yields 'mixed indications'.

• Marginalia Era Classifier

  Place a marginal hand on the standard main-currency table (insular minuscule 7th-9th c., Caroline minuscule 9th-12th, Gothic textualis and Gothic cursive 12th-15th, humanist cursive 15th-16th, secretary 15th-17th) and optionally check it against an observed century.

• Insular Family Flag Checker

  Tally four documented Insular script features (insular g, insular delta-shaped d, long-descender insular s and the Tironian et) under the stated heuristic: no features means unlikely, exactly one is possible, two or more is probable Insular.