Bibliographic record
Abstract
A hitherto unreported wordbook of the original production of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728) is housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections library at McGill University as part of a seventy-five volume collection of English plays largely assembled by the antiquary Adam de Cardonnel-Lawson (1746/7–1820) (some plays have his signature on the title page). The plays begin with one from 1654 and then beginning in 1711 run through 1823 for some 480 plays in all. Most volumes have contemporary clippings and manuscript comments added; many of the later clippings concern performances in Bath where Cardonnel-Lawson lived in the years before his death. The volumes have the armorial bookplate of Sir John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1868). McGill University Library acquired the collection in May 1921 from the Bath bookseller George Gregory. Two editions of The Beggar’s Opera, both with the overture and music for the songs, are present in this collection. A copy of the fifth edition (1742) appears as the second item in volume 23. The manuscript text reproduced here is from a copy of the second edition (1728) (shelf mark PR1269 H63 v.39 #4) and it appears on a single sheet of laid paper bound before the printed text:
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.290 | 0.161 |
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".