Human-verified witness comparison
Tetrastichon on Saint Anne
A four-line pilot collated directly from three digitized editions of De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae. The display separates what the witnesses print from normalization and from OCR behavior.
The witnesses
Read each column independently. The restrained ribbons simply keep corresponding verse lines in view; they carry no claim about descent or dependence.
M1494 Mainz, 1494
1r (scan 0001)
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna
- Excellens meritis. et pietate potens.
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.
- Fers cunctis placidā quippe salutis opem.
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna
- Excellens meritis et pietate potens.
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.
- Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem.
Open facsimile at 1r (scan 0001) · IIIF manifest
Bibliographic record
Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Mainz, 1494), BSB 4 Inc.c.a. 1121.
L1497 Leipzig, ca. 1497
19r (scan 0045)
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna
- Excellens meritis . et pietate potens
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur
- Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna
- Excellens meritis et pietate potens.
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.
- Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem.
Open facsimile at 19r (scan 0045) · IIIF manifest
Bibliographic record
Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, ca. 1497), BSB 4 Inc.c.a. 1775.
L1501 Leipzig, 1501
18r (scan 0036)
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis anna
- Excellens meritis.et pietate potens
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur
- Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem
- Virginis almifice mater venerabilis Anna
- Excellens meritis et pietate potens.
- Nemo tristis abit qui te colit et veneratur.
- Fers cunctis placidam quippe salutis opem.
Open facsimile at 18r (scan 0036) · IIIF manifest
Bibliographic record
Johannes Trithemius, De laudibus sanctissimae matris Annae (Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 1501), BSB 4 Asc. 246.
Collation and classification
| Line / class | Lemma | M1494 | L1497 | L1501 | Editorial note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 · punctuation | meritis et | meritis. et | meritis . et | meritis.et | All witnesses print a point after meritis; only spacing differs. The normalized layer removes the medial point. |
| 4 · orthographic | placidam | placidā | placidam | placidam | M1494 abbreviates final -m with a macron; the Leipzig witnesses spell the ending out. |
| 2 · punctuation | potens. | potens. | potens | potens | M1494 closes the line with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses. |
| 3 · punctuation | veneratur. | veneratur. | veneratur | veneratur | M1494 closes the line with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses. |
| 4 · punctuation | opem. | opem. | opem | opem | M1494 closes the tetrastich with a point; no terminal point is visible in the Leipzig witnesses. |
OCR audit trail
These disagreements were checked against the scans and excluded from the apparatus. They describe machine recognition, not the transmitted text.
- L1497: OCR
anns→ verified anna. The scan clearly prints anna. - L1497: OCR
Memo→ verified Nemo. The scan clearly prints Nemo. - L1501: OCR
auna→ verified anna. The scan clearly prints anna. - L1501: OCR
Memo→ verified Nemo. The scan clearly prints Nemo.
Editorial record and downloads
human-verified-from-facsimile, 2026-07-26. All four lines in all three witnesses were read directly from the linked BSB scans.
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.