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    The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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    1. chrisaldrich 08 Feb 2024
      Helwich was the fifth-highest contributor
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    2. chrisaldrich 08 Feb 2024
      The most prolific Reader in Europe – we might call him a ‘super-contributor’ – was Hartwig Helwich, a professor at the University of Viennawho wrote out the entire Cursor Mundi onto 46,599 slips. His efforts madethe medieval poem the second-most-frequently cited work in the Dictionaryafter the Bible (though in the current OED, it has dropped to eleventh in thetop sources).

      This practice of writing out everything onto slips sounds like that used later (double check the timing) by the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in creating their slip corpus for later work.

      Oxford English Dictionary zettelkasten Oxford English Dictionary statistics Hartwig Helwich Cursor Mundi Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

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