Bound together, taught together

Claim (verbatim)

Bound together, taught together. This connects the composite volume (majmuʿa) with the curriculum's fossil record. A majmuʿa looks like a miscellany, but owners bound the treatises they studied together, in the order and company they studied them. Across thousands of independently assembled volumes, the same small treatises should therefore keep the same company far above chance: recurring playlists that are the physical shadow of reading sequences, with the co-occurrence network breaking into modules that map onto curricular stages, a grammar cluster, a logic cluster, a rhetoric cluster. The binder's thread is the syllabus written in another material.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

In itemized majmuʿa records, at least ten specific text-pairs each co-occur in twenty or more independent volumes, and the co-occurrence network of texts appearing in at least ten majmuʿas has modularity above 0.5 with modules dominated by single disciplines. Primary clause: the existence of at least ten pairs with at least twenty independent co-occurrences; the verdict follows it. Secondary: the modularity and discipline alignment.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Kill: the Süleymaniye Library catalogue and FIHRIST, both of which itemize the contents of composite volumes text by text.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

The 'one-volume libraries' literature explicitly reads majmuʿas as reflexes of study and teaching units (Endress; Friedrich & Schwarke), anticipating the mechanism, but the co-occurrence network test — recurring text-pairs and discipline-dominated modularity above 0.5 — is un-run.

• Endress, ''One-Volume Libraries' and the Traditions of Learning in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture', in Friedrich & Schwarke (eds.), One-Volume Libraries (2016)

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