Manual for the correct use and reading of the Titles section of PAThs database

A detailed technical description of database schema is published at schema/titles.

Ref.: paths.titles

ID

• The unique stable identifier of each title. The identifier is a sequential integer provided by the database engine. This field id not available to public.
• DB id: paths__titles.id

CREATOR

• Reference to the user who created the record This field id not available to public.
• DB id: paths__titles.creator

CLAVIS COPTICA ATTRIBUTED TO THE TITLE

• Each title is identified by a specific Clavis Coptica, composed of a 4-digit number preceded by a T (to distinguish it from a Clavis Coptica attributed to Works) and followed by a suffix, clearly marking it as a final title or subscriptio (-S), an initial title or inscriptio (-I), a section heading (-SH), a running title (-R), a general title (-G), a general final title (-GS) or a general initial title (-GI).
• DB id: paths__titles.cc

CLAVIS COPTICA ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORK

• The Clavic Coptica of the work accompanied bu the Title
• DB id: paths__titles.workcc

CLM

• The Coptic Literaty Manuscript id where the Title is found
• DB id: paths__titles.msid

TYPE

• Type of the Title, can be initial, final, section heading, running, initial general, final general or general
• DB id: paths__titles.type

DESCRIPTION

• A verbous description of the Title
• DB id: paths__titles.description

MODULAR TYPOLOGY

• In unimodular writing, the letters all fit in the same shape, usually a square. In bimodular writing, there is an opposition between wide letters and narrower ones (usually ⲉ, ⲑ, ⲟ, ⲥ).
• DB id: paths__titles.modulartypology

AXIS

• Axis of the writing (upright/right-sloping).
• DB id: paths__titles.writingaxis

THICK-AND-THIN STYLE

• Noted if present.
• DB id: paths__titles.thickandthin

TEXT

• Transcription of the text in Coptic
• DB id: paths__titles.text

TRANSLATION

• English translation of the Coptic text
• DB id: paths__titles.translation

EDITORS

• Initials of the person(s) responsible for the record.
• DB id: paths__titles.editors

STATUS

• If the record has been fully compiled the status is set to complete; if it is under study the status is set to in-progress. If the status is blank it means that the provided information are incomplete, not reliable and liable to change in the future.
• DB id: paths__titles.status

LAST MODIFIED

• Date of last edit
• DB id: paths__titles.lastmodified

Bibliography

For each Title multiple instances of the following group of fields can be filed, each one describing a bibliographic reference.

These fields are not part of the titles table but of the m_biblio table.

SHORT REFERENCE

• Short reference of the bibliographic item as stored in biblio table
• DB id: paths__m_biblio.short

SPECIFIC DETAILS

• Pages of the publication if not precised in the reference
• DB id: paths__m_biblio.details

DETAILS ABOUT IMAGES

• Pages or figures containing reproductions of (part[s] of) the manuscript
• DB id: paths__m_biblio.images