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Rare verses are house marks
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Claim (verbatim)
Byzantine scribes copied stock verse epigrams into their books, but some epigram types survive in only a handful of manuscripts. The claim: sharing a rare epigram type is a house signature — two manuscripts carrying the same rare colophon verse come from the same institutional lineage, so rare-epigram co-occurrence maps scriptorium filiation better than script style does. The mechanism is that verses travel inside houses, memorized by pupils from masters and copied from house exemplars, rather than circulating on the open market the way texts do. If it holds, the epigram database is secretly a scriptorium pedigree registry, and anonymous manuscripts can be assigned to houses by their verses alone.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause (verdict follows it): for epigram types with two to five dated occurrences in DBBE, the geographic and institutional distance between occurrence pairs is significantly smaller than between randomly matched manuscript pairs of the same dates and genres (permutation test, p<0.01).
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
DBBE occurrence records with manuscript provenance metadata (in-house).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write from the inline prompt and existing-title list alone, with no file reads, web access, database queries, or any other tool call.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
DBBE's stated objective is to 'detect affinities between epigrams and manuscripts', and its type/occurrence architecture exists to trace epigram transmission across manuscripts — the filiation idea is anticipated; the specific permutation test on rare-type co-occurrence vs institutional distance is un-run.
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