Manuscripts of individual collections

Often, one needs to know how many copies are there of any given manuscripts, and scholars working on a specific collection may want a list of these MSS. To provide this information, some of us have thought about integrating Lotte Kéry's superbly useful manual into the Clavis wiki. Before we do this (and perhaps even if we don't), we should think carefully how to insert this kind of information. It may be tempting simply to add a section "Manuscripts" into the description of the collections. Maintaining such lists may, however, be difficult, and with collections extant in many MSS, even cerating such a list is not easy (not even if one starts with Lotte's book). Instead, and that is what I would prefer, one could use categories. As already mentioned on the Categories pages, we could use [[Category:Manuscript of XY]] (where 'XY' is the Clavis key for the collection in question) to place all MS in the relevant category , or categories in some cases. The advantage would be that the relevant list would simply be the category [[Category:Manuscript of XY]], and update automatically if the MS description is updated; there is no danger of a mismatch between descriptions of the collections on the one hand, and those of the MSS on the other. --Christof Rolker (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2022 (CEST)

I've been adding this to some mss pages. -- Christof Rolker (talk) 11:00, 31 May 2023 (CEST)