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Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths.
An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature.

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

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

Ref.: paths.works

ID

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

Work identifiers

CLAVIS COPTICA

  • The Clavis Coptica as provided by CMCL
  • DB id: paths__works.cmcl

CONVENTIONAL TITLE

  • The conventional title or titles (separated by semicolon) of the work
  • DB id: paths__works.title

CPG

  • The corresponding Clavis Patrum Graecorum identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.cpg

CANT

  • The corresponding Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.cant

CAVT

  • The corresponding Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.cavt

BHO

  • The corresponding Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.bho

BHG

  • The corresponding Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.bhg

BHL

  • The corresponding Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.bhl

CAe

  • The corresponding Clavis Aethiopica identifier
  • DB id: paths__works.cae

Description

NOTES

  • General descriptive notes on the work
  • DB id: paths__works.notes

LITPERIOD

  • A provisional periodisation system, object of further amendments and changes. The updated list is available at https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/works
  • DB id: paths__works.litperiod

Editorial information

EDITORS

  • Initials of the person(s) responsible for the record.
  • DB id: paths__works.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__works.status

LAST MODIFIED

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

Authorship

AUTHOR TYPE

  • The type of the author; can be stated, i.e. an author to which a work is attributed in the Coptic manuscript tradition; creator, i.e. Work’s Creator: actual and original author of the work in its original language, either Greek or Coptic
  • DB id: paths__m_wkauthors.type

AUTHOR NAME

  • Reference to the autor id, as stored in authors
  • DB id: paths__m_wkauthors.author

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

  • The source of information for the attribution of the author. Can be: Tradition / other works, title, colophon, or contents
  • DB id: paths__m_wkauthors.source

NOTES ON AUTHORSHIP

  • Possible notes describing or explaining the author attribution
  • DB id: paths__m_wkauthors.notes

Bibliography

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

These fields are not part of the places 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