The state of the archive
What is here, how much of it has been read, who is quoted for it, and what has never been checked against the object itself. Every figure below is counted while the site is built, so none of it is a claim anybody had to remember to update.
What is here
- 163
- works
- 21
- motifs they are filed under
- 32
- entries writtenone for every motif, and eleven besides
- 6
- centuries1445 to 1928
How much has been read
- 138
- decodedthe marks measured and at least half of them carrying a named source
- 139
- read wholethe picture described in one piece, above the key
- 2
- keyed but not decodedmarks measured, but the sources do not reach them
- 23
- tagged onlyfiled by motif and nobody has read them here yet
Who says so
- 680
- passages quotedeach with the person, the book, the year and the place in it
- 17
- named peoplethe archive quotes nobody anonymously
- 393
- marks measured on the pictures362 carry a reading by a named author; 31 are the archive's own observation, and say so
What has not been checked
- 24
- records never checked against the objectread from a photograph of the page, not from the artefact in the hand
Where the pictures come from
- 127
- Internet Archive
- 22
- Wellcome Collection
- 12
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1
- Heidelberg University Library
The numbers that are not finished are printed here on purpose. An archive that prints only what it has done is asking to be taken on trust, and this one is not asking for that: the works filed by motif and not yet read are listed on the wall with the rest, and every reading names the book it came from so that it can be checked and, where it is wrong, corrected.