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 scan.

Scan a charter transcription for signum manus cross marks - plus signs and cross glyphs (+, dagger, double dagger, Latin and Jerusalem crosses) - counting them and locating the first. 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]

Cross count

Number of cross marks found.

Has signa

Whether any cross mark is present.

First index

Character index of the first cross mark (-1 if none).

• 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.

• Diplomatic Protocol Checker

  Check a charter text for four classic diplomatic protocol elements by keyword heuristic - invocation (in nomine / signum sanctae crucis), intitulation (ego/nos), corroboration (signum manus, robo-, confirmo-, subscribo- forms) and datation (actum/datum/data/anno) - and score completeness out of four.

• Long-s Ratio Calculator

  Count long s (ſ) and round s characters in a transcription and report the exact long-s share of all s glyphs plus its frequency per thousand characters.

• Secretary E-Horn Counter

  Count horned e glyphs (ę, the usual transliteration of the secretary-hand e with its entry horn) against plain e in a transcription and report the exact horned share plus its frequency per thousand characters.