Early English Printed Sermons


Nicolson, William, 1655-1727

Number of relevant publications in EEBO-TCP: 1
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 7.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 15.0% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 7.2% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 8.347
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 4.355
Old Testament (Geneva) 3.297
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.97
New Testament (ODRV) 2.027
New Testament (Geneva) 1.967
Old Testament (AKJV) 1.658
New Testament (AKJV) 0.915
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
2 Peter (ODRV) 3.592
Daniel (AKJV) 3.587
Daniel (Geneva) 3.535
2 Peter (Geneva) 3.452
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 3.414
1 John (Geneva) 3.388
1 Peter (ODRV) 3.387
Jeremiah (Geneva) 3.387
Jeremiah (Douay-Rheims) 3.369
1 John (Tyndale) 3.363
1 John (AKJV) 3.269
1 Peter (Geneva) 3.259
Jeremiah (AKJV) 3.246
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.186
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 3.152
1 Peter (AKJV) 3.081
Romans (Tyndale) 2.927
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.788
Luke (AKJV) 2.765
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.744
Proverbs (AKJV) 2.684
Matthew (ODRV) 2.563
Romans (Geneva) 2.456
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.401
Romans (AKJV) 2.228
Psalms (AKJV) 1.683
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 27 (AKJV) 3.569
Jeremiah 27 (Douay-Rheims) 3.568
Ecclesiasticus 40 (Douay-Rheims) 3.561
Daniel 2 (Geneva) 3.553
Jeremiah 13 (Geneva) 3.551
Jeremiah 13 (AKJV) 3.55
Daniel 2 (AKJV) 3.535
Deuteronomy 5 (Douay-Rheims) 3.529
2 Peter 2 (ODRV) 3.527
Isaiah 59 (AKJV) 3.523
2 Peter 2 (Geneva) 3.515
Luke 23 (AKJV) 3.513
Proverbs 24 (AKJV) 3.506
1 John 4 (Geneva) 3.501
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 3.494
1 John 4 (AKJV) 3.465
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 3.449
Matthew 26 (Tyndale) 3.446
Psalms 82 (AKJV) 3.444
1 John 4 (Tyndale) 3.441
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 3.433
Matthew 22 (ODRV) 3.424
1 Peter 2 (AKJV) 3.418
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 3.399
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 3.364
1 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 3.364
Romans 13 (Geneva) 3.247
Romans 13 (AKJV) 3.21
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 27.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.777
Matthew 26.53 (Tyndale) 2.776
Ecclesiasticus 40.26 (Douay-Rheims) 2.776
Jeremiah 27.5 (AKJV) 2.776
Jeremiah 27.6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.776
Luke 23.2 (AKJV) 2.776
Deuteronomy 5.30 (Douay-Rheims) 2.775
1 Peter 2.19 (AKJV) 2.775
Daniel 2.37 (AKJV) 2.773
Daniel 2.37 (Geneva) 2.772
1 John 4.20 (Geneva) 2.771
1 Corinthians 15.33 (AKJV) 2.771
1 John 4.21 (Tyndale) 2.77
2 Peter 2.22 (Geneva) 2.769
Jeremiah 13.23 (Geneva) 2.769
2 Peter 2.22 (ODRV) 2.768
1 Peter 2.20 (AKJV) 2.766
Jeremiah 13.23 (AKJV) 2.766
1 John 4.20 (AKJV) 2.764
Isaiah 59.1 (AKJV) 2.764
Romans 13.6 (Tyndale) 2.763
1 Peter 2.17 (Geneva) 2.762
Psalms 82.1 (AKJV) 2.757
1 Peter 2.14 (AKJV) 2.755
1 Timothy 1.17 (AKJV) 2.754
1 Corinthians 11.16 (AKJV) 2.753
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 2.752
Proverbs 24.21 (AKJV) 2.752
Matthew 22.21 (ODRV) 2.743
Romans 13.7 (AKJV) 2.741
1 Peter 2.13 (Geneva) 2.74
Romans 13.1 (Tyndale) 2.704
Psalms 82.6 (AKJV) 2.692
Romans 13.2 (AKJV) 2.674
Romans 13.1 (AKJV) 2.65
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.601
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
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The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 3.891
New Testament 3.534
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Daniel 11.062
1 Kings 10.966
2 Samuel 10.797
1 Peter 10.433
Jeremiah 10.393
Proverbs 9.809
Luke 9.627
Romans 8.83
Diversity: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Jeremiah 27 12.474
2 Samuel 20 12.452
1 Kings 1 12.44
Daniel 2 12.411
Proverbs 21 12.38
Luke 23 12.324
1 Peter 2 11.994
Romans 13 11.744
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Jeremiah 27.6 14.275
Luke 23.2 14.275
Jeremiah 27.5 14.273
Daniel 2.37 14.273
2 Samuel 20.1 14.27
Romans 13.2 14.172
Romans 13.1 13.976
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase