A New Source for the History of the Prophetic Books in the Redaction by Francisk Skorina and in the Ostrog Bible
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Abstract
The Kazan manuscript is an overlooked source for the history of the Prophetic Books in the redaction by Francisk Skorina and of the 1580—1581 publication of the Ostrog Bible. The manuscript was produced in Ukraine, presumably in the 1560s. By and large, it contains the same revised and amended text of the three Major Prophets — Isaiah being absent — as the Vilnius manuscript from the third quarter of the 16th century. There are, however, some discrepancies between the two manuscripts. These facts suggest that the Kazan and the Vilnius manuscripts descend from the common protograph of the Ostrog redaction of the Prophetic Books independently from one another. The compilers of the Ostrog redaction used some foreign language sources (the Czech Bible and some others), editions printed by Francisk Skorina, and probably Skorina’s draft manuscripts, now lost. The Ostrog redaction of the Prophetic Books was carried out in several stages. The Kazan manuscript presents an earlier stage than the Vilnius copy. The comparison of the two manuscripts allows for the identification of traces of Skorina’s Bible and of some lost books. This approach helps reveal the character of the Ostrog redaction.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".