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

Witnesses

Witness names in the order they attest in the charter.

Rank charter witnesses by list position and classify each by a stated keyword heuristic on Latin/English title tokens with precedence royal > ecclesiastical > noble > knightly > unspecified. 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]

Names

The witness names, in document order.

Ranks

One-based rank of each witness (position in the list).

Precedence classes

Keyword-derived precedence class per witness.

• 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.

• Eschatocol Completeness Checker

  Score the closing protocol (eschatocol) of a charter against its four standard elements (dating clause, witness list, roboratio, sealing clause) under the stated heuristic: all four is complete, two or three is partial, fewer than two is fragmentary.

• Invocatio Trinitarian Detector

  Classify a charter invocatio as trinitarian under the stated heuristic: word-boundary matches for an explicit Trinity term or all three Father, Son and Holy-Spirit keyword groups mark it trinitarian.

• Batarde Mix Proportion Calculator

  Compute the textualis-versus-cursiva proportions of a batardesque hand and classify the mix under the stated heuristic: shares within 20 percentage points of each other are balanced, otherwise the larger share dominates.