Wikidata:WikiProject Medieval manuscript codicology

Background

The goal of this project is to build off of the base description for manuscript books to best represent codicological and paleographical features of medieval manuscripts. Pilot project will use cataloguing records from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University.

Ouputs

• Create enhanced data model for medieval codices to represent codicological and paleographical features, proposing new properties as required
• Create items for approximately 30 medieval manuscripts
• Share documentation
• Create queries based on new properties

Data model

Property	Value	Example	Usage note
Label	manuscript name, based on common usage and/or cataloguing history	Book of the Head
Description	"manuscript in the collection of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University"		generic description
instance of (P31)	manuscript (Q87167)		manuscript (Q87167), illuminated manuscript (Q48498), codex (Q213924), manuscript codex (Q2217259), palimpsest (Q274076), manuscript fragment (Q30103158)

Items created

Main items (manuscript items)

• Medical recipes and health regimens (Q111317800)

Secondary items (actors, written works, etc).

• Kitāb al-aġḏiya (Q111317448)
• Universal and Particular Diets (Q111317530)

Properties

• ...

Queries

• (forthcoming)

Sources consulted

• Wikidata:WikiProject Books
• Peniarth Manuscripts
• WikiProject University of Toronto Libraries/Bound Manuscripts
• WikiProject Medieval Manuscripts National Library of the Netherlands/Liber Pantegni
• WikiProject Art of Reading in the Middle Ages

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