The Library

A roll is a composition (ruling WORK-1): Joshua, the Gospel of Thomas, the Difnar. Every version of it the repository holds — each L0 witness with its L1 and L2 — is inside the one roll, and the roll is drawn as its standard witness (the one a reader sees first, chosen by rule WORK-2: complete, share-safe, typed, Bohairic first for the Bible and the Liturgy, Yousef's own files above the others): its words, its dialect, its share class. A click opens the text; every witness is listed in the opened scroll's Witnesses tab, the standard one starred. An edition that holds several compositions (a Nag Hammadi codex, a Bible volume) has no roll of its own: it is named in the Witnesses tab of each composition it holds. Editions whose contents are not yet tabled, and the collections (papyri, magic, the hymn categories, histories, images), stay one roll per folder. The Bible stands in canonical order, one bay to a section: the Old Testament in the Septuagint's order, the New in the standard order. On the other walls compositions stand in their section's bay in title order, and volumes or copies of one collection stand together in volume order. Sizes count L0 witnesses only (ruling CNT-1): counting the generated L1 and L2 again would treble the corpus. On the Images shelf a roll is a volume of plates: its thickness is the number of plates (a hundred words' worth each), since a plate's only words are its caption, and its card counts plates.