Duplicate Entries for መልክአ፡ ሚካኤል፡ - LIT1860Malkea & LIT2835RepCh119

[smaugustine]

This is a more hefty duplicate situation, 14 MSS vs 44 MSS. Shall I begin changing the refs over?

[eu-genia]

Yes, LIT1860Malkea should be deleted and merged into LIT2835RepCh119. Thank you @smaugustine for taking care of this too. (Some history: It was decided at one point to go after Chaîne. But when we (Massimo) created new IDs for all Chaîne items it often was not checked where the work records already existed (sometimes old records were deleted and replaced, but often not). As a result, doublets emerged. And the titles assigned to the Chaîne items (Hymn to Michael, Hymn to Mary, Hymn to Jesus etc) are often less telling than Malke'a ... and so on, so the "old" records were kept being used instead of the "new" ones.) (It might be nice to always have Malke'a... as the main title of such entries, so that these are the first that pop up in the search)

[DenisNosnitsin1970]

Please transfer incipit /explicit into the record that will remain, and you can add one more stanza... I must say that IDs based on pure numbers + the number in Chaine create difficulties for some people. Being purely numerical is not wrong, but it is very difficult to work only with numbers, without the slightest reference to the content, and it is more difficult to find purely numerical IDs, esp. if there are no reasonable incipits.

[eu-genia]

While we are at it I wonder if LIT1858Malkea (used in 1 MS see https://betamasaheft.eu/iiif/EMIP/Codices/37/148.tif/full/full/0/default.jpg) is also one of the RepCh-doublets

[DenisNosnitsin1970]

LIT2891RepCh172_

[DenisNosnitsin1970]

?

[smaugustine]

I checked 14 of the 16 references to LIT1860Malkea. Almost all of them were, indeed, identical to RepCh119. Two were not:

• EMIP 611
  • This appears to be an alternate መልክአ፡ ሚካኤል፡ that merits some further analysis
• IVEf39, item 1
  • From the incipit and short length this is a generic set of salām verses that are commonly found in ድርሳነ፡ ሚካኤል፡ and elsewhere

In those cases I removed the LIT1860Malkea reference and used a generic title. There are two remaining which I am unable to check:

• Neukirchen006, addition 1
• EMIP 3236, addition 2

(The changes are on this branch)

[eu-genia]

sorry I have just seen that this branch was never pushed and the references probably never updated either, the records may be partially outdated, @thea-m can you check if there is more to be done? thank you

[eu-genia]

As far as I can see LIT1860Malkea has been deleted and replaced with LIT2835RepCh119 throughout (ignoring the branch created by Augustine), but

• IVef39 now points to LIT2835RepCh119, even if this from the above should be a different one (@DariaElagina can you confirm?)
• EMIP 611 now points to LIT2835RepCh119, even if this should be a different one
• CJN006 # a1 (@DariaElagina maybe you know?) and EMIP 3236 # a2 also point to LIT2835RepCh119 even if this has not been verified

I wonder if we should recreate LIT1860Malkea and use it as a general record for a Malke'a Mikael we cannot identify, and/or create a new ID for the version in EMIP00611

@thea-m @DenisNosnitsin1970