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PRIMARY-EVIDENCE DESK

COVERAGE LEDGER ↗

THE WRITTEN RECORD

NO OBJECT / NO CLAIM

WITNESS
THE WORD.

A date is not a manuscript. A quotation is not a facsimile. Every historical occurrence must disclose what was actually seen, where it lives, and how precisely it can be found again.

538ALL RECORDS

Every attestation claim in the reviewed graph.

46INSPECTED OBJECTS

A primary image was checked and precisely located.

46INSPECTION RECORDS

Repeatable logs of what the image itself proves.

492SOURCE REPORTS

A secondary source reports the date or form.

214WORD DOSSIERS

Reviewed word histories represented here.

INSPECTION RATE9%

46 records currently meet the directly inspected primary-object standard, each with a structured inspection log.

STATUSallinspectedreported
TYPEallManuscript 24Printed book 22Source-reported corpus record 322Lexicographic first-use report 152Source-reported corpus record 18
01

PERMANENT EVIDENCE RECORDS

24 WITNESSES IN THIS VIEW

001PRIMARY OBJECT
fijanearly 6th centuryestablished

fijan

Codex Argenteus, John 7:7

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 33r; facsimile 57; John 7:7; line containing “ni mag so manaseþs fijan izwis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s transcription. The object verifies the exact written infinitive fijan in context; it does not establish first use, spoken frequency, or Proto-Germanic ancestry.

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002PRIMARY OBJECT
fijanearly 6th centuryestablished

fijan

Codex Argenteus, John 12:25

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 76v; facsimile 96; John 12:25; line containing “saei fiaiþ saiwala seina”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s transcription. The object verifies the j-less written form fiaiþ in context; it does not by pixels alone reconstruct the sound change or settle every fian normalization.

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003PRIMARY OBJECT
fijanearly 6th centuryproposed

fijan

Codex Argenteus, Luke 1:71

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 123r; facsimile 145; Luke 1:71; line containing “us fijandam unsaraim”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile verifies written fijandam in the enemies clause. It cannot settle Project Wulfila’s explicit lexical ambiguity between the fijan participle and the lexicalized noun fijands.

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004PRIMARY OBJECT
fijanearly 6th centuryproposed

fijan

Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 143v; facsimile 186; Luke 6:27; line containing “þaim fijandam izwis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile verifies written fijandam in the those-hating clause. It does not by pixels alone choose the verbal participle over the identically inflected enemy noun.

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005PRIMARY OBJECT
fijandsearly 6th centuryestablished

fijands

Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:43

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 3v; facsimile 6; Matthew 5:43; line containing “jah fiais fiand þeinana”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile was directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse and token analysis. It verifies fiand as the accusative-singular enemy noun immediately after the separate verb fiais; it does not establish first use or spoken frequency.

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006PRIMARY OBJECT
fijandsearly 6th centuryestablished

fijands

Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:44

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 3v; facsimile 6; Matthew 5:44; line containing “frijoþ fijands izwarans”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile was directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse and token analysis. It verifies accusative-plural fijands in the love-your-enemies clause; it does not make every identical surface form unambiguously nominal.

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007PRIMARY OBJECT
fijandsearly 6th centuryestablished

fijands

Codex Argenteus, Matthew 10:36

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 27r; facsimile 31; Matthew 10:36; line containing “jah fijands mans innakundai is”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile was directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s transcription. It verifies nominative-plural fijands in the household-enemies clause; it does not date lexicalization or the first Gothic use.

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008PRIMARY OBJECT
fijandsearly 6th centuryestablished

fijands

Codex Argenteus, Luke 1:74

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 123r; facsimile 145; Luke 1:74; line containing “us handau fijande unsaraize”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile was directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s transcription. It verifies genitive-plural fijande in the enemies clause; it is separate from the ambiguous fijandam three verses earlier on the same folio.

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009PRIMARY OBJECT
fijandsearly 6th centuryestablished

fijands

Codex Argenteus, Luke 10:19

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 164v; facsimile 228; Luke 10:19; line containing “ana allai mahtai fijandis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile was directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s transcription. It verifies genitive-singular fijandis in the power-of-the-enemy clause; it does not resolve the category of other fijand- tokens.

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010PRIMARY OBJECT
hatanearly 6th centuryestablished

hatan

Codex Argenteus, Luke 1:71

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 123r; facsimile 145; Luke 1:71; line containing “þize hatandane unsis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse transcription. The object verifies written hatandane in context; it does not show the infinitive hatan, establish a first Gothic use, prove spoken frequency, or by pixels alone choose between the formally possible masculine and neuter genitive-plural analyses.

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011PRIMARY OBJECT
hatanearly 6th centuryestablished

hatan

Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 143v; facsimile 186; Luke 6:27; line containing “þans hatandans izwis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse transcription. The object verifies written hatandans in context; it does not show the infinitive hatan, establish a first Gothic use, prove spoken frequency, or by pixels alone choose between the formally possible masculine nominative- and accusative-plural analyses.

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012PRIMARY OBJECT
hatisearly 6th centuryestablished

hatis

Codex Argenteus, Luke 3:7

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 129r; facsimile 157; Luke 3:7; line 10 ending “anawairþin hatiza”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse transcription and the historical line locator. The object verifies written hatiza in the wrath-to-come clause; it does not by itself settle the case analysis, establish a first Gothic use, or prove that hatis was the only Gothic wrath noun.

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013PRIMARY OBJECT
hatizōnearly 6th centuryestablished

hatizōn

Codex Argenteus, John 7:23

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 94v; facsimile 60; John 7:23; line containing “iþ mis hatizoþ”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse transcription and token locator. The object verifies the glyph sequence transcribed hatizoþ in the anger question; it does not itself write the infinitive hatizōn, mark long ō, establish the morphological parse without grammatical analysis, prove a first Gothic use, measure spoken frequency, or recover prehistoric ancestry.

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014PRIMARY OBJECT
hatjanearly 6th centuryestablished

hatjan

Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:44

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
DG 1, fol. 3v; facsimile 6; Matthew 5:44; line containing “þaim hatjandam izwis”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila’s verse-level transcription and morphological analysis. The object verifies inflected hatjandam, not a written infinitive hatjan; 510 is a representative point within the official early-sixth-century manuscript dating, not the translation date or first spoken use.

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015PRIMARY OBJECT
liufsearly 6th centuryprobable

liufs

Codex Argenteus, Mark 1:11

LANGUAGE
Gothic
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Codex Argenteus DG 1, fol. 57v, facsimile 276, Mark 1:11, line containing “sa liuba”
FACSIMILE
Linked

The facsimile pixels were directly inspected against Project Wulfila's verse-level transcription. The object verifies inflected liuba in Mark 1:11, not a written nominative liufs; 510 remains a representative point within the official early-sixth-century manuscript dating.

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016PRIMARY OBJECT
hatōnHeliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth centuryestablished

hatan

Heliand manuscript M, enemy command

LANGUAGE
Old Saxon
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cgm 25, scan 45, folio 22r; Heliand 1451; line containing fiund hatan
FACSIMILE
Linked

The full-resolution facsimile was directly inspected against Köbler and the LWL transcription. It verifies the written infinitive hatan after fiund, not the macronized lemma hatōn, a first use, or a uniquely emotional interpretation. The numeric year is a representative point inside the cataloged second half of the ninth century.

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017PRIMARY OBJECT
hatōnHeliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth centuryestablished

hatan

Heliand manuscript M, arrest scene

LANGUAGE
Old Saxon
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cgm 25, scan 142; Heliand 4915; line containing hatandiero hop
FACSIMILE
Linked

The full-resolution facsimile directly verifies hatandiero hop in the arrest scene when aligned with the transcription. It does not by pixels alone decide productive present participle against lexicalized enemy noun; Köbler indexes the same locus under both hatōn and hėttiand. The numeric year is a representative manuscript date.

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018PRIMARY OBJECT
hetiHeliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth centuryestablished

heti

Heliand manuscript M, Beatitudes persecution clause

LANGUAGE
Old Saxon
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cgm 25, scan 41, folio 20r; Heliand 1322; line containing rikioro manno heti
FACSIMILE
Linked

The full-resolution facsimile was directly inspected against Köbler and the LWL transcription. It verifies written heti inside the persecution-and-hostile-speech clause, not the dotted-e normalized headword, a nominative citation form, first use, exact pronunciation, or deeper ancestry. The numeric year is a representative point inside the cataloged second half of the ninth century.

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019PRIMARY OBJECT
hōtiHeliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth centuryestablished

hōti

Heliand manuscript M, Pilate question

LANGUAGE
Old Saxon
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cgm 25, scan 150; Heliand 5183; line containing hugea hotie
FACSIMILE
Linked

The full-resolution facsimile was directly inspected against Köbler and the LWL transcription. It verifies nominative plural hotie in the phrase about the hearers' hostile minds, not the normalized headword hōti, a first use, exact pronunciation, or either deeper ancestry lane. The year is representative within the cataloged second half of the ninth century.

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020PRIMARY OBJECT
hōtiHeliand composition circa 830–840; Munich manuscript second half of the ninth centuryestablished

hōti

Heliand manuscript M, accusation before Pilate

LANGUAGE
Old Saxon
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cgm 25, scan 152; Heliand 5246; line containing hotean hugi
FACSIMILE
Linked

The full-resolution facsimile directly verifies accusative singular hotean in the hostile-intent phrase when aligned with Köbler and the LWL transcription. It does not establish the normalized headword, first use, pronunciation, or a unique root route.

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021PRIMARY OBJECT
frēondlate 10th or early 11th centuryestablished

frēond

Beowulf manuscript, Heorot filled with friends

LANGUAGE
Old English
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, fol. 152r; Electronic Beowulf alignment at verse 1018
FACSIMILE
Linked

The Electronic Beowulf line control aligned verse 1018 to folio 152r, and the folio image was directly inspected. The pixels visibly preserve freondum between wæs and afylled. This establishes an inflected written form and local hall-company context; it does not establish the poem’s composition date, first use, every participant’s social relationship, or reconstructed ancestry.

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022PRIMARY OBJECT
fēondlate 10th or early 11th centuryestablished

fēond

Beowulf manuscript, foe’s footprint

LANGUAGE
Old English
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, fol. 180v, manuscript line 15; Beowulf 2289
FACSIMILE
Linked

The Electronic Beowulf folio image was directly inspected after using its line control to align Beowulf 2289 with folio 180v. The pixels visibly preserve feondes before fotlast. This establishes an inflected written form and local foe context; it does not establish the poem’s composition date, first use, complete Old English semantics, or deeper ancestry.

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023PRIMARY OBJECT
hatrc.1150-1200established

hatr

Bókin dýra, Elucidarius

LANGUAGE
Old Norse
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
AM 674 a 4°, fol. 33v; line corresponding to Eluc674(1989) 158.10
FACSIMILE
Linked

The manuscript pixels were directly inspected against ONP’s transcription. The initial Hatr is visibly legible; the remainder of the phrase was not independently re-edited from the pixels. The object verifies a token in this dated codex, not the noun’s first use, complete semantics, gender by itself, or deeper ancestry.

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024PRIMARY OBJECT
hatac1200established

hata

Holm perg 15 4° folio 89v

LANGUAGE
Old Norse
WITNESS TYPE
Manuscript
LOCATOR
folio 89v, line 20; scan 1722110
FACSIMILE
Linked

The scan pixels were directly inspected against ONP's diplomatic transcription and citation c265666. They verify written hata in the command to love chastity and hate no person; they do not establish the headword's first use, complete paradigm, exact pronunciation, or prehistoric ancestry.

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THE PROMOTION RULE

FROM REPORT TO OBJECT

01SOURCE REPORT

A dictionary, corpus, or study reports a form or first-use date. Useful—but not the underlying object.

02PRIMARY OBJECT

A manuscript, inscription, printed book, periodical, newspaper, or playbill preserves the occurrence.

03EXACT LOCATOR

Repository, shelfmark, page or folio, quoted form, and stable facsimile link make the inspection repeatable.

04DIRECT INSPECTION

An editor checks the image itself and records only what that object proves—never more.