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  "$schema": "../schemas/witness-comparison.schema.json",
  "id": "anna-tetrastichon",
  "title": "Tetrastichon on Saint Anne",
  "author": "Johannes Trithemius",
  "work": "De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae",
  "language": "la",
  "verified": {
    "status": "human-verified-from-facsimile",
    "date": "2026-07-26",
    "scope": "All four lines in all three witnesses were read directly from the linked BSB scans.",
    "conventions": "Diplomatic text preserves printed spelling, abbreviation marks, capitalization, and sentence punctuation while representing long s as s. Normalized text expands abbreviation marks and supplies consistent punctuation; it does not modernize vocabulary."
  },
  "witnesses": [
    {
      "id": "M1494",
      "siglum": "M1494",
      "label": "Mainz, 1494",
      "bibliography": "Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Mainz, 1494), BSB 4 Inc.c.a. 1121.",
      "work_id": "prdl-24364_de-laudibus-sanctissimae-matris-annae",
      "locator": "1r (scan 0001)",
      "manifest": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00008347/manifest",
      "canvas": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00008347/canvas/1",
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      "image": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00008347_00001/full/1000,/0/default.jpg",
      "diplomatic": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna",
        "Excellens meritis. et pietate potens.",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.",
        "Fers cunctis placidā quippe salutis opem."
      ],
      "normalized": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna",
        "Excellens meritis et pietate potens.",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.",
        "Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "L1497",
      "siglum": "L1497",
      "label": "Leipzig, ca. 1497",
      "bibliography": "Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca. 1497), BSB 4 Inc.c.a. 1775.",
      "work_id": "prdl-24366_de-laudibus-sanctissimae-matris-annae-liptzk-1497",
      "locator": "19r (scan 0045)",
      "manifest": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00040384/manifest",
      "canvas": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00040384/canvas/45",
      "image_service": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00040384_00045",
      "image": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00040384_00045/full/1000,/0/default.jpg",
      "diplomatic": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna",
        "Excellens meritis . et pietate potens",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur",
        "Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem"
      ],
      "normalized": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna",
        "Excellens meritis et pietate potens.",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.",
        "Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "L1501",
      "siglum": "L1501",
      "label": "Leipzig, 1501",
      "bibliography": "Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 1501), BSB 4 Asc. 246.",
      "work_id": "prdl-24367_de-laudibus-sanctissimae-matris-annae-liptzk-1501",
      "locator": "18r (scan 0036)",
      "manifest": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00011308/manifest",
      "canvas": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00011308/canvas/36",
      "image_service": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00011308_00036",
      "image": "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00011308_00036/full/1000,/0/default.jpg",
      "diplomatic": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna",
        "Excellens meritis.et pietate potens",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur",
        "Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem"
      ],
      "normalized": [
        "Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna",
        "Excellens meritis et pietate potens.",
        "Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.",
        "Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "variation_units": [
    {
      "id": "v1",
      "line": 2,
      "type": "punctuation",
      "lemma": "meritis et",
      "readings": {
        "M1494": "meritis. et",
        "L1497": "meritis . et",
        "L1501": "meritis.et"
      },
      "note": "All witnesses print a point after meritis; only spacing differs. The normalized layer removes the medial point."
    },
    {
      "id": "v2",
      "line": 4,
      "type": "orthographic",
      "subtype": "abbreviation",
      "lemma": "placidam",
      "readings": {
        "M1494": "placidā",
        "L1497": "placidam",
        "L1501": "placidam"
      },
      "note": "M1494 abbreviates final -m with a macron; the Leipzig witnesses spell the ending out."
    },
    {
      "id": "v3",
      "line": 2,
      "type": "punctuation",
      "lemma": "potens.",
      "readings": {
        "M1494": "potens.",
        "L1497": "potens",
        "L1501": "potens"
      },
      "note": "M1494 closes the line with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses."
    },
    {
      "id": "v4",
      "line": 3,
      "type": "punctuation",
      "lemma": "veneratur.",
      "readings": {
        "M1494": "veneratur.",
        "L1497": "veneratur",
        "L1501": "veneratur"
      },
      "note": "M1494 closes the line with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses."
    },
    {
      "id": "v5",
      "line": 4,
      "type": "punctuation",
      "lemma": "opem.",
      "readings": {
        "M1494": "opem.",
        "L1497": "opem",
        "L1501": "opem"
      },
      "note": "M1494 closes the tetrastich with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses."
    }
  ],
  "ocr_observations": [
    {
      "witness": "L1497",
      "reported": "anns",
      "verified": "anna",
      "type": "ocr-error",
      "note": "The scan clearly prints anna."
    },
    {
      "witness": "L1497",
      "reported": "Memo",
      "verified": "Nemo",
      "type": "ocr-error",
      "note": "The scan clearly prints Nemo."
    },
    {
      "witness": "L1501",
      "reported": "auna",
      "verified": "anna",
      "type": "ocr-error",
      "note": "The scan clearly prints anna."
    },
    {
      "witness": "L1501",
      "reported": "Memo",
      "verified": "Nemo",
      "type": "ocr-error",
      "note": "The scan clearly prints Nemo."
    }
  ],
  "summary": {
    "substantive": 0,
    "orthographic": 1,
    "punctuation": 4,
    "ocr_error": 4,
    "unresolved": 0
  },
  "editorial_note": "This pilot finds no substantive verbal variation in the four lines. OCR output is retained only as a diagnostic record and is never promoted to the textual apparatus.",
  "computed": {
    "witness_ids": [
      "M1494",
      "L1497",
      "L1501"
    ],
    "line_count": 4,
    "counts": {
      "substantive": 0,
      "orthographic": 1,
      "punctuation": 4,
      "unresolved": 0,
      "ocr_error": 4
    }
  }
}
