<i>The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665</i> . By G <scp>ermaine</scp> W <scp>arkentin</scp> , J <scp>oseph</scp> L. B <scp>lack</scp> and W <scp>illiam</scp> R. B <scp>owen</scp> . <i>The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665</i> . By WarkentinGermaineBlackJoseph L.BowenWilliam R.. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2013. xiv, 406 pp. + ill. CAN $185.00. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 0 8020 4293 4.
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Abstract
The dust-jacket illustration forThe Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place depicts a view of Penshurst, the residence of the Sidney family for over 400 years, that has changed little over the centuries. This volume is the product of collaborative research spanning close to thirty years on the early-modern history of the Sidney family library. The project originated in 1967 when Germaine Warkentin was a graduate student, and she has seen the project through various technological and personnel changes. It is an informative work, admirably organized and structured. The research is exhaustive and scholarly without being pedantic, and it is a fascinating book to read. The book is mainly concerned with the early-modern Sidney family's library, starting from its origins in the 1540s and ending with its sale in 1743. The original manuscript library catalogue, part of archives deposited by William Sidney, Lord De L'Isle in 1984, forms the basis of the work. Unnoticed by scholars until the 1980s, the catalogue was created in 1652/3 by Gilbert Spencer, with entries added up to 1665. According to the catalogue, the library had approximately 4,927 volumes, although it omits some books, such as ‘receipt collections’ (p. 8) or other working volumes and some individual titles within multi-volume sets (e.g. entry 159r12, ‘Ramas de diverses pieces en 24 vol.’). It also omits most of the manuscripts, commonplace books, and personal papers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.426 | 0.220 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".