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

Charter text

Charter transcription to search.

Extract the feast-day dating anchor from a charter by substring heuristic against a documented table of common sanctorale feasts with their fixed liturgical dates (or movable status), returning the earliest match in the text. 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]

Anchor feast

Canonical name of the detected feast.

Fixed date

Fixed date MM-DD or 'movable'.

Month band

Calendar month band of the feast.

Matched alias

Alias actually matched in the text.

• 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.

• Ex-libris Inscription Extractor

  Extract structured fields from a bookplate or ownership inscription under the stated rules: recognise case-insensitive phrases 'ex libris', 'ex-libris', 'exlibris', 'from the library of' and 'from the books of', take everything after the earliest phrase as owner text with edge punctuation trimmed, and report the first 400-2100 integer found as the year (0 when none).

• Beneventan Zone Locator

  Locate a century on the documented Beneventan phase table (pre-Beneventan to 7th c., earliest witnesses 8th, classic floruit 9th-11th, decline 12th-13th, residual survival 14th-16th, extinct from the 17th) and flag whether the region is within the Beneventan zone (Montecassino, southern Italy or the Dalmatian coast).