Documents of the Doges of Venice in the Collection of Academician Nikolay P. Likhachev, 14 — mid-16 Centuries: Structure of the Collection, History and Prospects of Study
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Abstract
The collection of the Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, contains more than 1.7 thousand acts on the history of the Venetian Republic from the 12th — 18th centuries, once part of the Museum of Palaeography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, created on the basis of the manuscript collection of Academician Nikolay P. Likhachev (1862—1936). The documents were acquired by the scholar between 1892 and 1914 through purchases at European auctions and from private collectors. Of these, just circa a hundred acts of the 12th to 15th centuries relating to Venetian possessions were published. These are the publications of L. Lanfranchi and B. Strina, E. Č. Skržinska, A. M. Kononenko and V. I. Mazhuga in the 1960s—1980s, S. P. Karpov, L. G. Klimanov and S. V. Bliznyuk in the 1990s. Some other pieces were attributed and briefly described in the 1990s — 2000s by L. G. Klimanov in catalogues and thematic reviews. A scientific description of illumination on 15th — 17th century documents was undertaken in the 2010s — 2020s by E. Y. Zolotova. The present article represents an intermediate stage in the preparation of a full-text edition of documents from the 14th to the first half of the 16th century issued by the Doges of Venice (18 ducali maggiori, 60 littere ducali, and one commissione ducale), which were of particular interest to N. P. Likhachev himself: a quarter of the documents were noted in his 1923 paper on the Venetian sphragistics and diplomatics; some pieces were presented at the exhibition in the Museum of Palaeography in 1927—1930.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.005 |
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".