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

Looped ascenders

Sampled ascenders drawn with Fraktur-style loops.

Straight ascenders

Sampled ascenders left unlooped and pointed (Schwabacher trait).

Generate a dated-note-style verdict for late Gothic textura under the stated heuristic on sampled ascender forms: more than 60 percent looped ascenders leans Fraktur, under 40 percent leans Schwabacher, and anything between is mixed. 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]

Fraktur affinity %

Looped ascenders as a percentage of all sampled ascenders.

Verdict

Stated-heuristic verdict from the ascender tally.

Note

Plain-language note recording the tally and its reading.

• 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'.

• Chirograph Wavy-Cut Checker

  Assess a cut-apart chirograph under the stated heuristic: halves whose surviving letter counts differ by no more than the tolerance count as matching when a wavy cut is visible, mismatched otherwise, and indeterminate whenever no wavy cut is visible.

• 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.