Categories

General

Categories help users to navigate the Clavis Wiki and thus to find relevant information; they also make the information more machine-readable as information on the collections and manuscripts can be extracted from the categories the respective pages are found in.

This page documents the categories used, and explains how to use them. Of course everyone is free to come up with new categories, but it would be nice to document major changes here. A few general remarks first:

• You can easily place any Clavis Wiki article in any category if you use Edit source and insert [[Category:Xyz]] (conventionally, at the bottom of am article), where „Xyz“ is the category in question. Once you save your changes, the page is in the relevant category, and a side menu (depending on your device, this may be on either side of or below the main article) will display all categories the page is in. Follow these links to find other pages in the same categories.
• For a list of all categories, see [[Special:Categorie]
• For a shorter overview of some of the most useful categories, see [[Some_Useful_Categorie]

Manuscripts

If you write or improve articles on manuscripts, please consider placing them in the relevant categories:

• Hurray, it's a manuscript!: All articles on manuscripts should be in the category, so first of all, insert [[Category:Manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] in any manuscript description on this Wiki.
• Content: You can tag all manuscripts of a certain collection by placing them in the appropriate category. Use [[Category:Manuscript of XY]] where 'XY' is the Clavis key for the collection in question. See [[List_of_collections_(keys_and_titles_only)|here for the list of key]. For collections not having a key (yet), you can use the full name as found in the page URL (so including "Collectio ..." in many cases).
• Date of origin: Use [[Category:Manuscript saec XII]] to tag manuscripts written in the twelfth century, and so on. More precise dates can and should be given in the description, the categories help to get an overview. If you cannot give a date, use [[Category Manuscript of which the date is unknown or missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] instead.
• Place of origin: Every manuscript should be placed in precisely one category from [[Categories for manuscripts by region|this list of all categories for manuscript by regio] (e.g. [[Category:Manuscript from Southern Ital[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]). You can also tag manuscripts by placing them in other categories [[Category:Manuscript from ...]] to add more specific information on the place of origin. If you cannot provide any region of origin, use [[Category:Manuscript of which the place of origin is unknown or missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] instead.
• Holding institution: There are separate pages for all libraries and archives relevant to our project, and matching categories [[Category:Manuscript in ...]] which make it easy to group manuscript by holding institution, almost always public libraries and archives. Manuscripts in (smaller) private collections are lumped together in the [[Category:Manuscript in private collectio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]. If the current whereabouts are completely unknown, use [[Category:Manuscript of which the current owner is unknow[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]. For details, use the article itself.
• Is the manuscript digitized? If so, tag it by inserting [[Category:Digitized Manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] in the description, or [[Category:Manuscript partly digitized]] if applicable. If you are sure a manuscript is not digitized, you can add [[Category:Manuscript not digitized]]. Adding a date for this finding ("not online in June 2023") can be useful. If a manuscript is not digitized but in your opinion really should be, add [[Category:Wishlist MSS Digitizatio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]! The article will then appear in the relevant wishlist [[:Category:Wishlist MSS Digitizatio].
• Codicology and preservation status: Use [[Category:Fragmen[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], [[Category:Composite Manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], [[Category:Codex discissu[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], [[Category:Multi-Volume Manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] to document basic codicological information, and mark destroyed manuscripts by [[Category:Lost Manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]].
• New? Manuscript descriptions should contain a reference to standard works, in particular Kéry's 1999 catalogue (digitized [https://archive.org/details/kery-1999-collections/page/1/mode/1up her) and the 2005 Clavis handbook (digitized [https://data.mgh.de/ext/reader/spc/clavis/#page/3/mode/1up her). You can cite them like this: {{Author|Fowler-Magerl}} p. {{FM|12}} and {{Author|Kéry}}, Collections pp. {{Kéry|123}}-124. Manuscripts not mentioned in these books should be placed in the respective categories [[Category:Manuscript not in Clavis handbook and/or [[Category:Manuscript not in Ker[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]].

Collections

• Collection: Use [[Category:Canonical Collectio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] and/or [[Category:Letter Collectio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] in all articles on collections. As a result, the categories [[:Category:Canonical Collectio] and [[:Category:Letter Collectio] provide a quick and easy overview which collections already have an article in this Wiki.</nowiki> to tag collections compiled in the ninth century, and so on. If in doubt, be generous (i.e. refer to two centuries if it is uncertain in which the collection emerged).
• Place of origin: You can add collections to geographical categories by adding a tag beginning ([[Category:Collection from ...]]). Every collection should be in one and only one regional category like "Northern France"; see the [[categories for collections by region|list of all categories for collections by regio].
• For some collections, it is also possible to state the place of origin ("Paris"), and you can add the articles to the respective category too. It is not necessary to place articles in more general categories unless it is really impossible to state a region of origin.
• The database entries are based on modern editions (i.e. more or less critical editions 19th/20th c.), early printed books (including Migne's Patrologia), or manuscripts. Use [[Category:Clavis entries based on modern editio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], [[Category:Clavis entries based on early printed book[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], and [[Category:Clavis entries based on manuscrip[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]. If the collection is not (yet) in the database, use [[Category:Collection not in Clavis databas[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]].
• Depending on size, use one of the following tags:

[[Category:very small (less than 100 canons) collectio]</nowiki> [[Category:small (100 to 500 canons) collectio]</nowiki> [[Category:medium (500 to 1000 canons) collectio]</nowiki> [[Category:large (1000 to 2000 canons) collectio]</nowiki> [[Category:very large (more than 2000 canons) collectio]</nowiki>

• Collections added to the database since the 2005 Veersion are "new": [[Category:New Collectio[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]
• See the next section how to flag articles lacking certain information.

Articles with issues

Some article may have issues you cannot fix at once. Use categories to make other users aware of the problem(s):

• Some descriptions refer to more than one collection in the database. Tagging these pages helps to improve the wiki: [[Category:Description that need to be spli[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]].
• Information missing: [[Category:Collection taq is unknown/missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] [[Category:Collection tpq is unknown/missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]] [[Category:Collection of which the date is unknown or missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]], [[Category:Collection of which the place of origin is unknown or missin[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]. The same categories exist for manuscripts.
• All or most categories are missing: [[Category:Lacks categorie[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]. This works for articles on collections and manuscripts.
• Something else is wrong (please say what in the discussion): [[Category:Article with known issue[[Category:Manuscript]] [[Category:Latin Manuscript]]]</nowiki> for articles which are very short, or only a first draft. Remove this category tag once an article has been revised.

All these categories are in the category [[:Category:Article with known issue]; so if you are looking for articles that ned fixing, have a look there. In some cases, the articles can be improved without much effort.

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