CUL Dd.1.17 in Spacetime

This week’s code post is going to be short and sweet, unlike this week’s manuscript!

Encoded this week is Cambridge University Library Dd.1.17, one of my favorite manuscripts, and the second largest compilation manuscript in the Piers corpus.  It is, however, a far cry from the Vernon, with only twenty-some-odd items as opposed to close to four hundred.

What I find so amazingly interesting about this manuscript is its tight concentration on a very particular type of text. In particular, its concentration on history and travel literature.  Now, I am by no means an expert in all these contents, so if you happen to work on one of the texts named here, I’d welcome any input you have in the comments below!

What I can see, however, is a very distinct trend towards cosmic history and Orientalia. If we take the larger network graph, and make it its own graph, with full articulation, it would look like this:

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