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Dictio probatoria as fingerprint: Computer discovery of manuscript provenances

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  1. Daniel Williman read an earlier version of this article to the FourthManuscripta Conference, St. Louis University, October 1977; Margarita Dziedzic is designer and manager of the computer program.

  2. By Dorothy Coveney, “Cataloguing of Literary Manuscripts”,Journal of Documentation 6 (1950), 125–139, precisely p. 138. The German term isKennwort; the French,mot repère.

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  4. Richard Rouse, “The Early Library of the Sorbonne”,Scriptorium 21 (1967), 42–71 and 227–251.

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  5. Daniel Williman,The Books of the Avignonese Popes and Clergy (Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1973); a new version is in preparation for publication.

  6. In his modelCatalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford (Oxford, 1963).

  7. Franz Ehrle,Historia bibliothecae romanorum pontificum ... (Rome, 1890); Anneliese Maier,Codices burghesiani bibliothecae vaticanae (Studi e Testi 170; Vatican City, 1952); Léopold Delisle,Le cabinet des manuscrits ... (3 vols.; Paris, 1868–1881).

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  9. “A Fifteenth-Century List of the Books of Edmund Norton,” with L.E. Boyle,Speculum 50 (1975), 284–285.

  10. Daniel Williman, “A Liber Sextus from the Bonifacian Library,”Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 7 (1977), in press.

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Williman, D., Dziedzic, M. Dictio probatoria as fingerprint: Computer discovery of manuscript provenances. Comput Hum 12, 89–92 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392920

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