Early English Printed Sermons


The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royall authority in a sermon preached before His Majesty in the Isle of Wight, upon the anniversary of his birth-day / by James, L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

Ussher, James, 1581-1656
Publisher: Printed for R Lowdes
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1648
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A64681 ESTC ID: R24650 STC ID: U221
Subject Headings: Primogeniture; 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 13.2% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 9.2% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 77.0% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 19.1% -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) 5.9% -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: 0.876
Evenness: 0.977
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 9.63
Old Testament (AKJV) 6.136
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.96
Evenness: 0.99
Book Prominence
1 Paralipomenon (Douay-Rheims) 6.547
Genesis (AKJV) 5.768
Isaiah (AKJV) 5.384
Canticles (Geneva) 3.168
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 3.088
Jude (AKJV) 3.071
1 Kings (AKJV) 3.052
Exodus (ODRV) 3.0
2 Chronicles (AKJV) 2.983
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.939
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.914
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.899
Titus (AKJV) 2.88
Job (Douay-Rheims) 2.756
1 Peter (Geneva) 2.751
1 John (AKJV) 2.734
Acts (ODRV) 2.645
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 2.585
John (Geneva) 2.463
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.461
John (ODRV) 2.278
Matthew (Geneva) 2.172
John (AKJV) 2.149
Romans (Geneva) 1.873
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.765
Psalms (Geneva) 1.518
Psalms (AKJV) 0.552
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
1 Paralipomenon 5 (Douay-Rheims) 5.713
Isaiah 3 (AKJV) 5.675
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 5.65
2 Chronicles 21 (AKJV) 2.856
Acts 25 (ODRV) 2.85
Exodus 4 (ODRV) 2.848
Canticles 3 (Geneva) 2.847
Isaiah 13 (AKJV) 2.841
Job 3 (Douay-Rheims) 2.838
Psalms 15 (Geneva) 2.838
1 Kings 10 (AKJV) 2.835
Genesis 25 (AKJV) 2.828
1 Corinthians 15 (Vulgate) 2.813
2 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.806
John 18 (ODRV) 2.8
John 18 (AKJV) 2.795
Ecclesiastes 10 (AKJV) 2.793
Matthew 11 (Geneva) 2.775
Psalms 89 (AKJV) 2.773
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 2.773
John 1 (Geneva) 2.77
Ecclesiastes 8 (AKJV) 2.766
Psalms 34 (AKJV) 2.763
Matthew 6 (Geneva) 2.758
Titus 3 (AKJV) 2.747
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 2.736
1 Corinthians 15 (Tyndale) 2.725
1 Peter 2 (Geneva) 2.719
1 John 3 (AKJV) 2.688
Jude 1 (AKJV) 2.675
1 Corinthians 15 (AKJV) 2.655
Romans 13 (Geneva) 2.532
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Paralipomenon 5.1 (Douay-Rheims) 5.404
Isaiah 3.4 (AKJV) 5.4
Genesis 49.3 (AKJV) 5.397
Acts 25.23 (ODRV) 2.702
2 Chronicles 21.3 (AKJV) 2.702
Exodus 4.22 (ODRV) 2.702
Canticles 3.7 (Geneva) 2.702
2 Peter 2.11 (AKJV) 2.701
Matthew 11.8 (Geneva) 2.701
Job 3.9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.701
Psalms 15.4 (Geneva) 2.701
2 Peter 2.17 (Geneva) 2.7
1 Kings 10.5 (AKJV) 2.7
Isaiah 13.10 (AKJV) 2.7
1 Corinthians 15.41 (Vulgate) 2.699
John 1.10 (Geneva) 2.697
Psalms 89.51 (AKJV) 2.697
Genesis 25.8 (AKJV) 2.696
1 John 3.1 (AKJV) 2.696
Matthew 6.29 (Geneva) 2.695
Ecclesiastes 10.16 (AKJV) 2.695
1 Peter 2.15 (Geneva) 2.693
Psalms 34.7 (AKJV) 2.693
1 Corinthians 15.41 (AKJV) 2.689
1 Peter 2.14 (Geneva) 2.689
1 Corinthians 15.41 (Tyndale) 2.682
Ecclesiastes 8.4 (AKJV) 2.682
1 Peter 2.13 (ODRV) 2.677
Ecclesiastes 10.17 (AKJV) 2.676
John 18.36 (AKJV) 2.675
Jude 1.8 (AKJV) 2.674
John 18.36 (ODRV) 2.67
Titus 3.1 (AKJV) 2.661
Romans 13.1 (Geneva) 2.551
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 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.933
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Esther 6.211
1 Chronicles 6.058
2 Chronicles 5.431
2 Kings 5.349
1 John 5.232
1 Kings 5.19
Ecclesiastes 4.71
1 Peter 4.635
Exodus 4.551
Genesis 4.042
Hebrews 3.881
Acts 3.463
1 Corinthians 3.376
Isaiah 3.285
Psalms 1.495
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
1 Chronicles 5 5.254
2 Chronicles 21 5.249
Esther 1 5.242
2 Kings 3 5.234
Acts 25 5.217
1 Kings 10 5.201
Exodus 4 5.19
Psalms 15 5.181
Psalms 45 5.157
Isaiah 3 5.126
Genesis 49 5.107
Psalms 16 5.077
Ecclesiastes 8 5.075
Ecclesiastes 10 5.073
1 John 3 4.937
Hebrews 12 4.86
1 Corinthians 15 4.829
Hebrews 11 4.817
1 Peter 2 4.768
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Hebrews 11.20 9.089
1 Chronicles 5.2 9.089
1 Chronicles 5.1 9.088
2 Kings 3.27 9.088
Exodus 4.22 9.085
Acts 25.23 9.084
Isaiah 3.4 9.081
Psalms 15.4 9.075
Ecclesiastes 8.4 9.067
Genesis 49.3 9.06
1 Peter 2.13 8.942
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase