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The cartulary keeps what still pays
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Claim (verbatim)
A cartulary — the bound book into which a monastery copied its loose charters — is usually treated as a photocopier; this conjecture treats it as an investment portfolio. Copying cost scribal labour, so the compiler triaged by future litigation value: perpetual rights were copied, while expired leases, discharged debts, and one-off settlements were left on the loose sheet to rot. The measurable consequence is a split record: charters surviving only as cartulary copies should skew heavily toward perpetuities, while single-sheet survivors — kept for the seal or by accident — preserve a larger share of legally ephemeral acts. If this holds, the cartulary filter has a computable magnitude, and every history of medieval lordship built mainly from cartularies carries a perpetuity bias that can now be subtracted.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause: in DEEDS transmission metadata (with the Electronic Sawyer in addition for the pre-Conquest set), the share of temporally limited transactions (term leases, life grants, one-off quitclaims) among charters surviving only as single sheets exceeds their share among charters surviving only as cartulary copies by at least 15 percentage points, controlling for century. Secondary clause: the gap widens with the interval between charter date and cartulary compilation date.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
DEEDS, with the Electronic Sawyer in addition for pre-Conquest transmission states (single sheet versus cartulary copy).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Composed blind by claude-fable-5 with zero tool use and no information ingress of any kind; the packet was emitted as a single JSON text message for the orchestrator to persist.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Cartulary scholarship documents that compilers selected for ongoing legal relevance and omitted ephemera, but the quantified single-sheet-versus-cartulary-copy comparison of temporally limited transaction shares in DEEDS/Sawyer is un-run.
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