Historiated Initial Tier Classifier
Classify an initial on the standard catalogue ladder: an identifiable narrative scene is historiated, a non-narrative human or animal figure is inhabited, and foliage or other ornament without figures is decorated.
Description
Classify an initial on the standard catalogue ladder: an identifiable narrative scene is historiated, a non-narrative human or animal figure is inhabited, and foliage or other ornament without figures is decorated.
Historiated Initial Tier Classifier: Classify an initial on the standard catalogue ladder: an identifiable narrative scene is historiated, a non-narrative human or animal figure is inhabited, and foliage or other ornament without figures is decorated.
When to use Historiated Initial Tier Classifier
Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.
- Human figures
- Human figures visible inside the initial.
- Animal figures
- Non-narrative animal figures inside the initial; do not count foliage.
- Narrative scene
- True when the initial depicts a recognisable narrative scene.
How Historiated Initial Tier Classifier works
Classify an initial on the standard catalogue ladder: an identifiable narrative scene is historiated, a non-narrative human or animal figure is inhabited, and foliage or other ornament without figures is decorated. 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
- Tier
- Catalogue tier of the initial.
- Figure total
- Total figures of all kinds inside the initial.
Limitations and assumptions
- 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.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.
References
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Illuminated manuscript — Wikipedia contributors
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