Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon made: by the famous doctor Erasmus of Roterodame

Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
Publisher: Imprynted by me Robert wyer dwellynge at the sygne of saynt Iohn euangelyste in saynt Martyns parysshe besyde Charynge crosse in the bysshop of Norwytche rentes
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1533
Approximate Era: pre-Elizabeth
TCP ID: A00392 ESTC ID: S101706 STC ID: 10508
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 16th century;
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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 3.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.8% 100.0%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -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) 2.5% -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: 0.918
Evenness: 0.99
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 5.522
Old Testament (Vulgate) 5.46
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 3.739
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.585
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.334
Old Testament (ODRV) 0.774
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -1.409
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.792
New Testament (Geneva) -3.916
New Testament (ODRV) -3.995
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.903
New Testament (AKJV) -5.285
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.996
Book Prominence
Matthew (Tyndale) 5.366
2 Maccabees (AKJV) 3.166
Luke (Wycliffe) 3.126
Luke (Vulgate) 3.097
Psalms (Vulgate) 3.06
John (Wycliffe) 3.05
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.98
Colossians (Tyndale) 2.972
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.782
Genesis (ODRV) 2.679
Genesis (Geneva) 2.614
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.585
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.548
Philippians (ODRV) 2.476
Luke (Tyndale) 2.45
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.418
John (Geneva) 2.356
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.353
John (Tyndale) 2.348
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.331
Ephesians (AKJV) 2.275
Luke (ODRV) 2.234
John (ODRV) 2.17
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.036
Psalms (ODRV) 2.015
Matthew (ODRV) 1.813
Matthew (AKJV) 1.711
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.658
Romans (AKJV) 1.383
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.997
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 7 (Tyndale) 5.65
John 2 (Wycliffe) 2.857
Luke 2 (Wycliffe) 2.855
Genesis 44 (Geneva) 2.851
Luke 1 (Vulgate) 2.849
Genesis 30 (ODRV) 2.849
Psalms 106 (Vulgate) 2.849
Psalms 149 (ODRV) 2.848
Matthew 1 (Tyndale) 2.847
Ecclesiasticus 26 (AKJV) 2.847
Proverbs 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.843
Ecclesiasticus 27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.842
2 Corinthians 11 (Tyndale) 2.842
2 Maccabees 7 (AKJV) 2.842
John 2 (Geneva) 2.839
John 2 (ODRV) 2.835
John 2 (Tyndale) 2.833
1 Corinthians 12 (Vulgate) 2.828
Luke 1 (Tyndale) 2.826
Luke 23 (Tyndale) 2.819
2 Corinthians 11 (AKJV) 2.805
Luke 22 (ODRV) 2.803
Matthew 15 (ODRV) 2.802
Psalms 147 (AKJV) 2.8
1 Corinthians 7 (Tyndale) 2.797
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 2.792
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 2.782
Luke 1 (ODRV) 2.78
Matthew 7 (AKJV) 2.724
Romans 2 (AKJV) 2.687
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 2.671
Philippians 2 (ODRV) 2.641
1 Corinthians 10 (AKJV) 2.555
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.541
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.994
Verse Prominence
Matthew 7.21 (Tyndale) 4.254
John 2.9 (Tyndale) 4.254
John 2.10 (Tyndale) 4.254
John 2.5 (ODRV) 2.127
Psalms 149.9 (ODRV) 2.127
John 2.3 (Tyndale) 2.127
John 2.6 (Tyndale) 2.127
John 2.7 (Tyndale) 2.127
John 2.8 (Geneva) 2.127
John 2.9 (Geneva) 2.127
Ecclesiasticus 27.11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.127
Luke 22.57 (ODRV) 2.127
Luke 1.43 (Tyndale) 2.127
Luke 1.49 (ODRV) 2.127
Matthew 1.16 (Tyndale) 2.127
Genesis 30.24 (ODRV) 2.127
Proverbs 7.11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.127
Luke 2.19 (Wycliffe) 2.127
John 2.5 (Wycliffe) 2.127
2 Corinthians 11.2 (Tyndale) 2.127
Colossians 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.127
1 Corinthians 15.46 (ODRV) 2.126
John 2.4 (Tyndale) 2.126
Luke 1.32 (Tyndale) 2.126
Genesis 44.22 (Geneva) 2.126
Psalms 147.7 (AKJV) 2.125
Ecclesiasticus 26.24 (AKJV) 2.125
Luke 23.27 (Tyndale) 2.125
2 Corinthians 11.3 (AKJV) 2.125
1 Corinthians 7.14 (Tyndale) 2.125
John 2.1 (Tyndale) 2.124
Luke 1.33 (Vulgate) 2.124
1 Corinthians 7.22 (Tyndale) 2.124
Luke 1.27 (ODRV) 2.123
Ephesians 5.29 (AKJV) 2.123
Psalms 106.10 (Vulgate) 2.122
Matthew 15.8 (ODRV) 2.121
1 Corinthians 12.27 (Vulgate) 2.121
2 Maccabees 7.32 (AKJV) 2.117
Romans 2.14 (AKJV) 2.11
Matthew 7.21 (AKJV) 2.105
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 2.083
1 Corinthians 10.31 (AKJV) 2.082
Philippians 2.8 (ODRV) 2.017
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
i
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: 0.375
Evenness: 0.811
Part Prominence
New Testament 26.805
Old Testament -22.334
Diversity: 0.847
Evenness: 0.952
Book Prominence
Luke 21.782
1 Peter 14.635
Ephesians 14.504
Colossians 6.948
Ezekiel 6.729
Job 6.091
1 Corinthians 5.043
Matthew 4.153
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 0.961
Chapter Prominence
Luke 1 19.775
1 Peter 3 13.109
Ephesians 5 13.029
Ezekiel 44 6.648
Job 17 6.626
Job 15 6.606
Job 2 6.58
1 Corinthians 12 6.465
1 Corinthians 2 6.425
Colossians 3 6.35
Matthew 25 6.297
Diversity:
Evenness:
Verse Prominence
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase