The Dominican Miscellany McGill 0073: A Catalyst for Research on Liturgical Fragments
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The liturgical miscellany Montreal, McLennan and Redpath Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Ms. Medieval 0073 [McGill 0073] is a composite manuscript consisting of layers produced in Italian Dominican environments at different periods. After a comprehensive description of the content and codicological features of the manuscript, the essay concentrates on some quires whose distinctive decorative elements and formularies (especially a rare office for the Eleven Thousand Virgins), point to a connection with Genoa and, more specifically, with the community of secluded Dominican nuns at the convent of Santi Giacomo e Filippo. Additional evidence, such as the presence of similar mending patches in a manuscript for use at that convent and now preserved in Genoa at Santa Maria di Castello, suggests that other, more recent quires of McGill 0073 with the formularies for Thomas Aquinas and the Corpus Christi were in Genoa at the time they were repaired. Relying on all these sets of arguments, the essay concludes that the oldest layers of McGill 0073 were produced in Genoa between the end of the thirteenth century and the first half of the fourteenth century.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.001 |
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".