Early English Printed Sermons


Six excellent treatises of life and death collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English.

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage
Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Publisher: by H L for Mathew Lownes and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1607
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: B14844 ESTC ID: S94239 STC ID: 18155
Subject Headings: Death; Life;
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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 6.1% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 5.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.7% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 2.4% -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) 2.0% -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: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (ODRV) 7.004
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Tyndale) -1.688
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.972
Evenness: 0.997
Book Prominence
1 John (AKJV) 4.806
Tobit (Douay-Rheims) 2.632
1 John (Vulgate) 2.557
Wisdom (ODRV) 2.522
Leviticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.488
John (Vulgate) 2.483
Colossians (Tyndale) 2.449
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.387
Wisdom (AKJV) 2.387
Lamentations (AKJV) 2.384
Philippians (Geneva) 2.285
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 2.283
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 2.252
1 John (Geneva) 2.242
1 John (ODRV) 2.236
Genesis (ODRV) 2.156
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 2.025
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.995
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.96
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.948
Philippians (AKJV) 1.941
John (Geneva) 1.833
John (Tyndale) 1.825
2 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.808
Romans (Tyndale) 1.715
Job (AKJV) 1.709
John (ODRV) 1.647
Luke (AKJV) 1.505
Psalms (ODRV) 1.492
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
Matthew (ODRV) 1.289
Romans (Geneva) 1.243
Matthew (AKJV) 1.188
Psalms (Geneva) 0.888
Romans (AKJV) 0.86
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
John 17 (ODRV) 4.289
1 John 2 (AKJV) 4.236
Tobit 12 (Douay-Rheims) 2.168
Genesis 5 (ODRV) 2.166
Deuteronomy 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.165
Leviticus 21 (Douay-Rheims) 2.165
Wisdom 4 (ODRV) 2.165
Psalms 112 (ODRV) 2.163
John 11 (Vulgate) 2.163
Ecclesiasticus 27 (Douay-Rheims) 2.159
Job 2 (AKJV) 2.156
1 Thessalonians 2 (Geneva) 2.156
Psalms 111 (Geneva) 2.156
Wisdom 4 (AKJV) 2.155
2 Corinthians 12 (ODRV) 2.154
Psalms 50 (ODRV) 2.143
1 John 2 (Vulgate) 2.142
John 17 (Tyndale) 2.141
John 16 (Geneva) 2.134
John 16 (Tyndale) 2.131
Lamentations 5 (AKJV) 2.128
Job 1 (AKJV) 2.128
John 11 (Tyndale) 2.127
2 Corinthians 12 (AKJV) 2.118
Philippians 1 (Geneva) 2.118
Colossians 3 (Tyndale) 2.109
John 14 (ODRV) 2.104
1 John 2 (Geneva) 2.101
1 John 2 (ODRV) 2.096
Matthew 10 (ODRV) 2.091
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 2.088
Matthew 25 (AKJV) 2.074
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 2.073
Hebrews 11 (Geneva) 2.071
Romans 1 (Geneva) 2.071
1 John 3 (ODRV) 2.068
Luke 2 (AKJV) 2.064
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.064
Romans 6 (ODRV) 2.063
Romans 1 (AKJV) 2.062
Romans 8 (Tyndale) 2.04
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 2.023
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 2.019
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.974
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.996
Verse Prominence
John 17.24 (ODRV) 3.994
1 John 2.15 (AKJV) 3.971
John 16.20 (Geneva) 1.999
John 16.22 (Geneva) 1.999
Psalms 111.2 (Geneva) 1.999
Tobit 12.15 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
Deuteronomy 13.3 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
Ecclesiasticus 27.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
Genesis 5.24 (ODRV) 1.999
Job 2.3 (AKJV) 1.998
John 17.15 (Tyndale) 1.998
1 Thessalonians 2.12 (Geneva) 1.998
John 14.28 (ODRV) 1.998
2 Corinthians 12.9 (ODRV) 1.998
John 11.25 (Vulgate) 1.998
John 11.26 (Tyndale) 1.998
Wisdom 4.11 (ODRV) 1.998
Wisdom 4.14 (AKJV) 1.998
2 Corinthians 12.8 (AKJV) 1.997
Leviticus 21.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.997
Genesis 5.22 (ODRV) 1.996
Psalms 112.2 (ODRV) 1.996
Colossians 3.1 (Tyndale) 1.996
1 John 2.16 (Geneva) 1.996
Hebrews 11.5 (Geneva) 1.995
1 John 2.17 (ODRV) 1.995
Matthew 10.7 (ODRV) 1.994
John 16.20 (Tyndale) 1.994
Lamentations 5.15 (AKJV) 1.993
1 John 3.12 (ODRV) 1.993
2 Corinthians 5.6 (ODRV) 1.993
Romans 8.24 (Tyndale) 1.992
Psalms 50.19 (ODRV) 1.99
Romans 1.17 (AKJV) 1.99
Romans 6.8 (ODRV) 1.99
Philippians 3.20 (AKJV) 1.99
1 John 2.16 (Vulgate) 1.99
Luke 2.30 (AKJV) 1.988
Philippians 1.21 (Geneva) 1.988
2 Corinthians 12.7 (AKJV) 1.987
Romans 1.17 (Geneva) 1.984
Matthew 25.46 (AKJV) 1.982
Job 1.21 (AKJV) 1.982
1 Thessalonians 4.13 (Geneva) 1.981
1 Timothy 6.18 (AKJV) 1.98
1 Thessalonians 4.14 (AKJV) 1.979
Luke 2.29 (AKJV) 1.972
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 1.947
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: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.911
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Philippians 13.637
Tobit 7.641
Wisdom 7.47
Habakkuk 7.216
1 Thessalonians 6.615
1 John 6.258
Deuteronomy 5.562
2 Corinthians 5.39
Genesis 5.067
John 4.486
Romans 3.738
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.93
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
Philippians 3 12.127
Tobit 2 6.246
Wisdom 4 6.241
Genesis 5 6.189
Deuteronomy 8 6.184
Psalms 84 6.166
Habakkuk 2 6.153
2 Corinthians 12 6.087
John 11 6.061
John 16 6.048
Psalms 51 6.045
1 John 2 6.04
1 Thessalonians 4 6.035
John 14 5.972
Romans 1 5.808
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 8.13 99.981
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase