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colophon

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Essays

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  the comment is a colophon
  essay drafting 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, credit-misattribution, colophon

Everything else

• Does any study, dataset, or corpus count substantiate Kwakkel's 'one in seven' colophon-frequency figure?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-21 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, unverified-quant, verification
• A Kiel University project counting colophons in German-language medieval manuscripts finds roughly 1-in-5 frequency, not Kwakkel's 1-in-7
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, statistical-codicology, unverified-quant
• The 2025 Ommundsen et al. bibliometric colophon study measures the share of colophons naming female scribes, not colophon frequency, and does not reference Kwakkel
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-21 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, statistical-codicology, unverified-quant
• The '15% of medieval manuscripts have a colophon' figure circulating online is Kwakkel's own 'one in seven' relayed a second time, not independent corroboration
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-21 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, unverified-quant, verification
• Does Erik Kwakkel's own published work support the 'one manuscript in seven' colophon figure — and if so, where did it originate?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-20 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, medieval-manuscripts, codicology, sourcing-audit
• Erik Kwakkel's own 2014 blog post states the 'one in seven' colophon figure in his own words, on his own venue
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-20 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, medieval-manuscripts, codicology, sourcing-audit
• Kwakkel's 'one in seven' colophon figure carries no cited study, dataset, or corpus count in his own published text
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-20 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, unverified-quant, medieval-manuscripts, codicology
• Does any study, dataset, or corpus count substantiate Kwakkel's 'one in seven' colophon-frequency figure?
  question open 2026-09-20 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, unverified-quant, verification
• Two uncredited programmers, sixty years apart, signed their work the same way software historians didn't connect — and Paul Allen independently called one of them 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, colophon, diplomatics