TIP of the day: Interactive: Manuscript Explorer (Logos Now only)
1. Logos comes with three Manuscript Explorer Interactives - Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and New Testament. They all are opened in the normal manners, have the usual history functions, information panels and resource panel menus. They all have faceted filtering, documentation available under "About", expandable entries that sometimes explain the codes, and very similar data.
2. Clicking on About brings up documentation that includes the scope of the Interactive, acknowledgements, data/facet definitions, references ...; the x in the upper right of the documentation dismisses About.
Because I am not an original languages scholar, information that is obvious to those in the field is mumbo-jumbo to me. Therefore, I created for myself a table assembled from the About documentation that includes everything I need to know or learn. I use it much as some would use flash cards, trying to be honest with myself as to whether the words have meaning to me or I just recognize them.
Manuscript Explorer Tools
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Hebrew Bible |
Septuagint |
New Testament |
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Scope |
Manuscript data presently includes information about the following manuscripts:
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This manuscript information at present only includes rudimentary manuscript information and contains comparatively few links to manuscript images. Manuscripts with images include:
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The vast majority of data that the New Testament Manuscript Explorer relies upon is accessed from the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR). The NTVMR is a place where scholars can come to find the most exhaustive list of New Testament manuscript resources, can contribute to marking attributes about these manuscripts, and can find state of the art tools for researching this rich dataset. |
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Manuscript Groups / Rahlfs Manuscript Groups |
Manuscript Groups: Unlike New Testament manuscripts which have a well defined order, and unlike Septuagint manuscripts which can utilize the ordering specified by Rahlfs, there is no overarching categorization of Hebrew Bible manuscripts by group. For this interactive, the following grouping is used:
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Rahlfs Manuscript Groups: The existing catalog of Septuagint manuscripts is based on work done by Alfred Rahlfs, which itself was based on manuscript listings in Holmes and Parsons' edition of the Septuagint. Today, Rahlfs' work places manuscripts in one of ten different categories. Unlike Greek New Testament groupings based loosely on handwriting and writing material, these groups are a bit more ad hoc.
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Type |
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Type: The types of manuscripts classed by textual critics are Papyrus, Majuscule (or Uncial), Minuscule, and Lectionary. |
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Contents |
Contents: There are five major groupings of content. Each are represented by a single lower-case letter. These groupings include:
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Contents: There are five major groupings of content. Each are represented by a single lower-case letter. These groupings include:
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Contents: There are four major groupings of content. Each are represented by a single lower-case letter, the origin of which hearkens to the Latin for the term. These groupings include:
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Date |
Date: The century or centuries in which the manuscript is likely to have been copied. |
Date: The century or centuries in which the manuscript is likely to have been copied. |
Date: The century or centuries in which the manuscript is likely to have been copied. |
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Textual Categories |
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Textual Categories: Five categories numbered I, II, III, IV, V. These are based on the work of Kurt and Barbara Aland in their book The Text of the New Testament, pp. 138–142; 159–162. While the Alands refer to their categories strictly by roman numeral in order to not perpetuate the vocabulary of text-types (e.g. “Alexandrian” or “Western”), there are affinities between the Alands' categorization and the traditional application of text-types. So for ease of applying these terms, though the groups are not exactly equivalent, the following labels are also used for each group:
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NTVMR Coverage |
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NTVMR Coverage: The NTVMR provides a minimum amount of information about every known New Testament manuscript in Greek. For several manuscripts, however, they also have access to images and transcriptions. This NTVMR Coverage facet is a simple measure to convey how much of a particular manuscript (transcriptions and/or images) the NTVMR may have information about. The scale ranges as follows:
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Language |
Language: The Language facet allows one to find manuscripts that contain Hebrew and another particular language. Supported languages include:
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Language: The Language facet allows one to find manuscripts that contain Greek and another particular language. Supported languages include:
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Language: The NTVMR primarily aggregates information about New Testament manuscripts in Greek. However, some of these manuscripts are diglots or triglots; they have the text in Greek and at least one other language. For example,Codex Bezae (D 05) is a well-known Greek-Latin diglot. And majuscule 078 is a Greek-Arabic diglot. The Language facet allows one to find manuscripts that contain Greek and another particular language. Supported languages include:
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Script |
Script: The Script facet allows one to facet based on the script used by a manuscript.
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Tags |
Tags: The Tags facet allows several different types of manuscript-level information to be included in a view. For the manuscript features (e.g. handwriting style or types of content) the tags are not to be considered comprehensive but only as pointers to examples of the feature. These different tags include:
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Tags: The Tags facet allows several different types of manuscript-level information to be included in a view. For the manuscript features (e.g. handwriting style or types of content) the tags are not to be considered comprehensive but only as pointers to examples of the feature. These different tags include:
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Tags: The Tags facet allows several different types of manuscript-level information to be included in a view. For the manuscript features (e.g. Purple Parchment, Illuminations, Pericope Markers) the tags are not to be considered comprehensive but only as pointers to examples of the feature. These different tags include:
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Holding Institutions |
Holding Institutions: A Holding Institution is an institution (typically a library or museum) that houses a manuscript. Several house more than one manuscript. This facet allows one to query the holdings of a particular institution or group of institutions. |
Holding Institutions: A “Holding Institution” is an institution (typically a library or museum) that houses a manuscript. Several house more than one manuscript. This facet allows one to query the holdings of a particular institution or group of institutions. |
Holding Institutions: A “Holding Institution” is an institution (typically a library or museum) that houses a manuscript. Several house more than one manuscript. This facet allows one to query the holdings of a particular institution or group of institutions. |
3. On the facets sidebar, one may choose either a sort by count or by alphabet. Here it is shown in count sequence.
4. Here it is in alphabetic sequence.
5. By default All entries are shown so the filter line defaults to All. Each manuscript line has a show detail arrow head. There are also live links within the information - here it is shown for detail information. Later a main manuscript entry live link will be shown.
6. An example of where the live link might take you ... there are several sites that you may reach.
7. Here a series of filters are shown. They are selected by clicking on a facet on the sidebar which is then added to the filter list, narrowing further the subset of manuscripts that are shown. About offers advice on the ordering of your facet selection. Note that one one value for a facet type may be selected.
8. Clicking on the x before a facet removes the facet but leaves the facets before and after it unchanged.
9. Clicking on the All will delete all facet filters.
10. Here is an example of a live link on a manuscript title.
10. A live link on the manuscript name will always open a resource within your Logos library that contains the manuscript - image or transcription.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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1. Logos comes with three Manuscript Explorer Interactives - Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and New Testament.
Are these part of Logos Now, or something else I don't have?
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I erroneously thought one was Logos 6 and two were Logos Now. I'll change the heading.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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