Wikidata:Property proposal/cagb manuscript ID

‎cagb manuscript ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: cagb manuscript ID (P12131) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a manuscript in the cagb digital database (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	manuscript (Q87167)
Allowed values	prefix 'cagb' plus 7-digit number
Example 1	Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle, Physica, bks. i-iii and start of iv. Themistius, Commentary on Aristotle, Physica, bk. iv. (Q62053512)cagb manuscript IDcagb9631391
Example 2	Aristotle, philosophical and scientific works, with glosses. Ptolemy, Quadripartitum. Hero, Geodaesia. Etc. (Q62051925)cagb manuscript IDcagb7100395
Example 3	Codex Ambrosianus 837 (Q5140181)cagb manuscript IDcagb5890343
Source	https://cagb-digital.de/handschriften/index.html
Number of IDs in source	935
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
Formatter URL	https://cagb-digital.de/id/$1

Motivation[edit]

As part of their efforts to edit Greek and Byzantine commentaries on the works of Aristotle (Q868), the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina (Q15803723) project hosts and maintains a set of databases, the most detailed and authoritative of which is their manuscript database. It describes, based on autopsy by expert scholars, over 900 manuscripts with an emphasis on production aspects such as quire formation and scribal hands. It is linked from the Pinakes (Q63953164) database and should be linked from Wikidata as well.

The database entries on manuscripts are classified by their status: 8 are listed as 'final', 523 as 'draft', and 392 as 'Intern' (internal). However, all entries are visible and contain at least basic information, and even those classified as 'drafts' are more substantial and detailed than many existing catalogues. I recommend that we treat them all equally as authoritative sources.