Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached at Owburne in Buckinghamshire at the funerall of the right worshipfull, and truly religious gentlewoman, Mris Margaret Elmes On the twenty-seaventh of Iuly. 1641. By George Burches batchlour of divinity.

Burches, George, d. 1658
Publisher: printed by Leon Lichfield
Place of Publication: Oxford
Publication Year: 1641
Approximate Era: CharlesI
TCP ID: A30217 ESTC ID: R215067 STC ID: B5615
Subject Headings: Elmes, Margaret, d. 1641; Funeral sermons -- 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 3.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 87.8% 95.2%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 7.1% -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) 2.4% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -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: 0.903
Evenness: 0.988
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Vulgate) 6.651
New Testament (Tyndale) 6.645
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.93
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.219
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.998
Book Prominence
2 Timothy (Tyndale) 4.44
Proverbs (Vulgate) 2.272
Amos (Douay-Rheims) 2.201
2 Thessalonians (Geneva) 2.16
2 Timothy (ODRV) 2.065
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 2.049
1 Kings (AKJV) 2.045
Wisdom (AKJV) 2.01
2 Timothy (Geneva) 1.983
2 Peter (Geneva) 1.931
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 1.875
Galatians (Geneva) 1.842
Revelation (Geneva) 1.813
1 Timothy (Geneva) 1.804
1 Timothy (ODRV) 1.802
2 Timothy (AKJV) 1.794
Job (Douay-Rheims) 1.749
1 Peter (Geneva) 1.743
Galatians (ODRV) 1.741
Genesis (Geneva) 1.714
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.674
Galatians (AKJV) 1.654
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.648
Acts (ODRV) 1.638
Job (Geneva) 1.626
Hebrews (ODRV) 1.614
Hebrews (Geneva) 1.583
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.571
Luke (Tyndale) 1.55
1 Peter (AKJV) 1.538
Proverbs (Geneva) 1.395
Job (AKJV) 1.332
John (AKJV) 1.141
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.136
Luke (AKJV) 1.128
Psalms (ODRV) 1.115
Proverbs (AKJV) 0.922
Matthew (ODRV) 0.912
Romans (Geneva) 0.865
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 0.758
Romans (AKJV) 0.483
Psalms (AKJV) -0.456
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.998
Chapter Prominence
2 Timothy 4 (Tyndale) 4.135
Proverbs 14 (Vulgate) 2.082
1 Kings 18 (Douay-Rheims) 2.071
Ecclesiasticus 38 (Douay-Rheims) 2.069
1 Kings 22 (AKJV) 2.069
Psalms 115 (ODRV) 2.069
Job 40 (AKJV) 2.068
Job 41 (Geneva) 2.068
Amos 6 (Douay-Rheims) 2.067
Genesis 41 (Geneva) 2.067
Job 7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.064
Revelation 2 (Geneva) 2.056
2 Corinthians 8 (ODRV) 2.056
2 Timothy 4 (ODRV) 2.05
Wisdom 5 (AKJV) 2.05
Acts 9 (ODRV) 2.05
1 Corinthians 16 (AKJV) 2.049
1 Thessalonians 2 (AKJV) 2.048
2 Thessalonians 2 (Geneva) 2.039
1 Timothy 5 (Geneva) 2.036
Hebrews 9 (Geneva) 2.035
Psalms 112 (AKJV) 2.035
Luke 10 (Tyndale) 2.03
Psalms 116 (AKJV) 2.027
Proverbs 31 (Geneva) 2.026
Ephesians 6 (ODRV) 2.025
Romans 7 (Geneva) 2.024
Luke 11 (AKJV) 2.023
Hebrews 9 (ODRV) 2.021
John 18 (AKJV) 2.021
1 Peter 5 (Geneva) 2.003
2 Timothy 4 (AKJV) 2.001
1 Timothy 6 (Geneva) 1.999
Proverbs 11 (AKJV) 1.998
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 1.99
1 Timothy 6 (ODRV) 1.989
1 Corinthians 2 (ODRV) 1.981
Matthew 6 (ODRV) 1.979
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.975
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.955
2 Peter 1 (Geneva) 1.947
Galatians 6 (AKJV) 1.942
1 Peter 5 (AKJV) 1.922
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.916
Romans 6 (Geneva) 1.896
Romans 8 (Geneva) 1.896
Romans 8 (AKJV) 1.752
Diversity: 0.978
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
2 Timothy 4.7 (Geneva) 5.746
2 Timothy 4.7 (Tyndale) 3.838
1 Kings 18.23 (Douay-Rheims) 1.923
Job 41.19 (Geneva) 1.923
Job 40.18 (AKJV) 1.922
Ecclesiasticus 38.21 (Douay-Rheims) 1.922
Revelation 2.17 (Geneva) 1.922
Genesis 41.25 (Geneva) 1.922
2 Thessalonians 2.6 (Geneva) 1.922
1 Timothy 5.10 (Geneva) 1.922
Proverbs 14.13 (Vulgate) 1.922
1 Thessalonians 2.8 (AKJV) 1.921
Proverbs 11.18 (AKJV) 1.921
2 Timothy 4.6 (Tyndale) 1.921
2 Timothy 4.7 (ODRV) 1.92
Wisdom 5.13 (AKJV) 1.92
1 Kings 22.31 (AKJV) 1.92
Luke 11.21 (AKJV) 1.919
Amos 6.4 (Douay-Rheims) 1.918
Psalms 116.15 (AKJV) 1.918
Luke 10.41 (Tyndale) 1.917
Psalms 112.6 (AKJV) 1.916
2 Corinthians 8.7 (ODRV) 1.916
Acts 9.36 (ODRV) 1.916
Psalms 115.6 (ODRV) 1.915
Job 7.1 (Douay-Rheims) 1.914
1 Peter 5.8 (Geneva) 1.914
1 Corinthians 16.13 (AKJV) 1.914
Romans 8.38 (Geneva) 1.912
2 Peter 1.5 (Geneva) 1.911
Proverbs 31.29 (Geneva) 1.91
Hebrews 9.27 (ODRV) 1.909
Ephesians 6.17 (ODRV) 1.908
1 Timothy 6.12 (ODRV) 1.908
1 Timothy 6.12 (Geneva) 1.907
Romans 8.39 (AKJV) 1.907
Hebrews 9.27 (Geneva) 1.904
2 Timothy 4.7 (AKJV) 1.903
2 Timothy 4.8 (Geneva) 1.903
1 Corinthians 2.9 (ODRV) 1.902
Romans 7.24 (Geneva) 1.901
Matthew 6.20 (ODRV) 1.901
Galatians 6.9 (AKJV) 1.901
John 18.36 (AKJV) 1.895
Galatians 5.17 (ODRV) 1.893
Romans 6.9 (Geneva) 1.889
Galatians 5.17 (AKJV) 1.887
Galatians 5.17 (Geneva) 1.885
1 Peter 5.11 (AKJV) 1.839
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: 0.911
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
Ephesians 13.222
2 Timothy 6.25
1 Kings 6.216
1 Samuel 5.91
Galatians 5.873
1 Peter 5.661
Proverbs 4.645
Luke 4.474
1 Corinthians 4.402
Isaiah 4.311
Romans 3.738
Psalms 2.521
Diversity: 0.938
Evenness: 0.993
Chapter Prominence
Ephesians 6 10.867
1 Samuel 18 5.511
1 Corinthians 16 5.471
1 Kings 22 5.467
Luke 4 5.464
Isaiah 28 5.452
Proverbs 31 5.43
Proverbs 11 5.419
Psalms 16 5.369
1 Peter 5 5.362
Psalms 51 5.351
2 Timothy 4 5.348
Luke 10 5.337
1 Corinthians 13 5.325
Galatians 5 5.271
Luke 12 5.184
Romans 8 4.953
Diversity: 0.918
Evenness: 0.99
Verse Prominence
Ephesians 6.10 14.263
1 Samuel 18.23 7.14
Proverbs 31.2 7.14
Luke 4.13 7.138
Proverbs 11.18 7.136
1 Corinthians 13.6 7.133
Psalms 51.2 7.132
1 Corinthians 16.13 7.123
Galatians 5.17 7.117
Romans 8.38 7.112
Romans 8.39 7.108
1 Peter 5.8 7.105
2 Timothy 4.7 7.097
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase