Understanding Medieval Manuscripts: St. Gall's Virtual Library
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In 2005, the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen began digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts. The creation of such virtual libraries available via the Internet is gaining in popularity with libraries, a trend that will radically ease the logistical constraints of studying medieval texts in their original context. While critical editions will continue to be an important tool for certain types of research, virtual libraries enable a wider community of scholars to engage with texts that are not amenable to critical editions or to ask questions that critical editions obscure. This article reviews the range of research that has centered around the study of manuscripts held at St. Gall, including school books, liturgical books, and patristic authors, and outlines the kinds of questions and insights that manuscript studies can provide for medieval history.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it