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Exemplary research questions
1) List of all titles for an author. This should include variant versions for a title.
2) List of all witnesses for a title (the list should distinguish which witnesses go with a particular title version)
3) List of all commentaries and super-commentaries on a given title
4) List of all authors who wrote in connection with a particular title (commentaries, super-commentaries)
5) List of all people who had other “roles” associated with a title (e.g. copyists , owners, patrons, teachers, students, etc.)
6) Bring up people associated with a particular title (not just one huge list of people, but be able to distinguish author, student, teacher)
7) Bring up people associated with a particular witness (not just one huge list of people, but be able to distinguish owner, say, from commentator)
8) Bring up all the works dedicated to a particular “patron” (e.g., Ulugh Beg)
9) Bring up all owners of a particular codex
10) Bring up all codices owned by a single person
11) Create a Table of contents for a particular codex
12) Bring up all works studied in a madrasa (institution event)
13) Search for specific words in incipits, explicits and colophons
14) Find copying dates in a certain range