Trithemius 4B Editions

Provisional machine-produced English reading texts for 27 works, produced from a corpus-trained Qwen3-VL-4B “Trithemius” LoRA OCR witness and GPT-5.5 dual-context translation. Automated model audits are retained as provenance and triage evidence; no text is presented as human-verified. The earlier machine translations remain available as independent comparison editions.

WorkEditorial stateHuman reviewAutomated QAChunks
A Book of Eight Questions to Emperor Maximilian (1515)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (41%)37
A Book of Eight Questions to Emperor Maximilian (1515)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (43%)42
A Book of Eight Questions to Emperor Maximilian (1534)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (40%)40
A Book of Eight Questions to Emperor Maximilian (1601)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (42%)43
An Abridgment of the Chapter Decrees of the Fathers of the Order of St Benedict for the Province of Mainz and the Diocese of Bamberg (1493)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (28%)85
An Eclogue in Praise of Bald Men, to Charles (Hucbald of Elnon; in Trithemius’s transcription) (1496)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)2
In Praise of Scribes (1494)Editorially reviewed reading viewReading view reviewed; translation not fully verifiedSampled machine audit (53%)19
Key to the Polygraphia (1518)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (19%)127
On Pastoral Care (1496)Editorially reviewed reading viewReading view reviewed; translation not fully verifiedFull machine audit (100%)8
On the Commonwealth of the Church and the Order of Monks (1493)Editorially reviewed reading viewReading view reviewed; translation not fully verifiedFull machine audit (100%)10
On the Commonwealth of the Church and the Order of Monks (1493)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)10
On the Institution of the Priestly Life (Mainz, 1499) (1494)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (53%)19
On the Institution of the Priestly Life (Mainz, 1504) (1494)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (52%)25
On the Origin, Progress, and Praises of the Order of Carmelite Brothers (1494)Editorially reviewed reading viewReading view reviewed; translation not fully verifiedSampled machine audit (41%)29
On the State and Ruin of the Monastic Order (1493)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (40%)30
On the Threefold Region of Cloister-dwellers and the Spiritual Exercise of Monks (1498)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (23%)93
On the Threefold Region of Cloister-dwellers and the Spiritual Exercise of Monks (1498)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (23%)93
On the True Conversion of the Mind to God (1500)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)13
On the Working of Divine Love (1497)Editorially reviewed reading viewReading view reviewed; translation not fully verifiedFull machine audit (100%)13
Seals and Magical Images of the Ancient Sages (pseudo-Trithemian astral-magic text) (1612)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)15
Seals and Magical Images of the Ancient Sages (pseudo-Trithemian; e-rara witness) (1612)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)15
Sermons and Exhortations to Monks (1516)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (16%)148
Six Books of Polygraphy (1518)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (22%)122
Six Books of Polygraphy (1518)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (22%)139
Steganography: The Art of Hidden Writing (1621)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (29%)82
Trithemius, Vindicator of Himself (1616)Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedSampled machine audit (46%)35
prdl-70283_de-laudibus-sancctissime-matris-anne-tractat ()Prepared reading textNo complete human review documentedFull machine audit (100%)10

The Trithemius 4B LoRA was fine-tuned on this corpus’s own page/transcription pairs. Its OCR is the witness for this edition’s Latin. See Methodology for the full OCR and translation record, including the works that were tried and did not ship from this lane.