Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber--man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace. Being a sermon preacht the 27. of March, 1631. before Sir Lucius Cary, and the congregation at Burford Church in Oxfordshire; with speciall relation to the Coronation-day, and the plague and dearth then among the people. By Iohn Randol Bachelor in Divinitie, of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford.

Randal, John, b. 1594 or 5
Publisher: Printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett for Tho Lambert neare the Hospitall gate in Smithfield
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1633
Approximate Era: CharlesI
TCP ID: A10400 ESTC ID: S115627 STC ID: 20684
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 17th 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 1.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.8% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 95.2% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 2.5% -inf%
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) 0.6% -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: 0.84
Evenness: 0.971
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 12.201
New Testament (ODRV) 11.084
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.946
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
Acts (ODRV) 8.403
Luke (Tyndale) 8.315
Leviticus (Geneva) 4.372
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 4.132
Hebrews (Tyndale) 4.095
Ecclesiastes (Geneva) 4.051
Acts (Tyndale) 4.012
1 John (AKJV) 3.946
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.797
Philippians (ODRV) 3.796
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 3.737
Acts (AKJV) 3.711
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.615
Ephesians (AKJV) 3.594
Job (AKJV) 3.552
Matthew (Tyndale) 3.46
Luke (AKJV) 3.348
Romans (ODRV) 3.295
Romans (AKJV) 2.703
Psalms (AKJV) 1.764
Diversity: 0.946
Evenness: 0.99
Chapter Prominence
Acts 12 (ODRV) 9.065
Luke 10 (Tyndale) 9.038
Acts 12 (Tyndale) 4.536
Leviticus 26 (Geneva) 4.533
Acts 12 (AKJV) 4.529
Proverbs 25 (Geneva) 4.528
Ecclesiastes 4 (Geneva) 4.524
Proverbs 19 (Douay-Rheims) 4.518
2 Corinthians 8 (Geneva) 4.508
Matthew 15 (Tyndale) 4.507
Ecclesiastes 10 (Douay-Rheims) 4.502
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 4.502
Philippians 4 (ODRV) 4.471
Job 21 (AKJV) 4.46
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 4.439
Luke 2 (AKJV) 4.436
1 John 2 (AKJV) 4.433
Romans 13 (ODRV) 4.387
Ephesians 5 (AKJV) 4.359
Romans 12 (AKJV) 4.345
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.99
Verse Prominence
Acts 12.20 (ODRV) 8.694
Luke 10.13 (Tyndale) 8.686
Ecclesiastes 4.14 (Geneva) 4.347
Proverbs 25.15 (Geneva) 4.347
Leviticus 26.19 (Geneva) 4.347
Acts 12.20 (Tyndale) 4.346
Acts 12.20 (AKJV) 4.345
Hebrews 12.4 (Tyndale) 4.345
Proverbs 19.12 (Douay-Rheims) 4.345
Matthew 15.21 (Tyndale) 4.345
2 Corinthians 8.13 (Geneva) 4.345
Job 21.13 (AKJV) 4.342
1 John 2.1 (AKJV) 4.341
Ecclesiastes 10.7 (Douay-Rheims) 4.338
Romans 13.11 (ODRV) 4.336
Psalms 2.9 (AKJV) 4.334
Ephesians 5.18 (AKJV) 4.334
Luke 2.10 (AKJV) 4.326
1 John 2.2 (AKJV) 4.322
Romans 12.18 (AKJV) 4.314
Philippians 4.20 (ODRV) 4.304
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.934
Evenness: 0.992
Book Prominence
Deuteronomy 9.634
Joshua 5.007
Hosea 4.685
2 Chronicles 4.646
2 Timothy 4.44
1 Kings 4.406
2 Samuel 4.268
Ecclesiastes 3.926
Jeremiah 3.641
Genesis 3.257
Proverbs 2.835
Acts 2.679
Luke 2.664
Isaiah 2.501
Matthew 1.702
Psalms 0.711
Diversity: 0.957
Evenness: 0.995
Chapter Prominence
Deuteronomy 28 7.9
Joshua 19 3.993
2 Chronicles 2 3.989
Isaiah 23 3.981
1 Kings 15 3.976
Genesis 10 3.974
1 Kings 14 3.964
2 Chronicles 33 3.964
Hosea 5 3.945
Jeremiah 12 3.944
Ecclesiastes 4 3.937
1 Kings 1 3.929
2 Samuel 3 3.924
Luke 4 3.908
Proverbs 19 3.889
Proverbs 25 3.889
Acts 12 3.88
Luke 9 3.858
Matthew 15 3.839
2 Timothy 1 3.831
Psalms 73 3.818
Isaiah 5 3.799
Ecclesiastes 7 3.761
Matthew 5 3.444
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.993
Verse Prominence
Deuteronomy 28.23 11.106
2 Chronicles 2.3 5.555
Joshua 19.29 5.555
Ecclesiastes 4.14 5.554
Genesis 10.2 5.554
1 Kings 15.2 5.554
Luke 4.29 5.553
Proverbs 25.15 5.553
Hosea 5.10 5.552
1 Kings 1.23 5.551
Proverbs 19.12 5.55
2 Timothy 1.5 5.548
Ecclesiastes 7.10 5.548
2 Chronicles 33.12 5.548
Acts 12.20 5.547
1 Kings 14.13 5.546
Isaiah 5.3 5.546
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase