Index of Manuscripts

Mistake index as a surrogate of quality in scientific manuscripts.

Siler et al. (1) argue that “editors and peer reviewers generally—but not always—make good decisions regarding the identification and promotion of quality in scientific manuscripts.” Here, we provide a new perspective on the ongoing discussion regarding the quality of peer review and editing processes and discuss how the effectiveness of editors and peer reviewers can be measured. As well, we u...

The index of Middle English prose, handlist XI: manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge

Regimen sanitatis is not-as was assumed-a text derived from Konrad's Regimen, but one using an identical source. A complete index of names and an extensive index of words follow the edited text, only words such as et and qui which are frequently used and do not carry meaning are not referenced completely. The index is followed by the edition of two Regimina, written in German, which Christa Hag...

Of abstracts and manuscripts.

Genealogy of Illustrated Manuscripts

1. Introduction. Illustrated manuscripts may be analysed in terms of both their texts and their illustrations. While statistical techniques have long been applied to the textual analysis of manuscripts, e.g., Lebart and Salem (1994), no corresponding pictorial analysis can be found in the art history literature. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the field can benefit from statistical...

Automatic Analysis of Historical Manuscripts

In this paper a document analysis tool for historical manuscripts is proposed. The goal is to automatically segment layout components of the page, that is text, pictures and decorations. We specifically focused on the pictures, proposing a set of visual features able to identify significant pictures and separating them from all the floral and abstract decorations. The analysis is performed by b...