Why do older books survive (sometimes)? Modelling the time distribution of manuscripts with a birth-death approach

Repository associated to the paper "Why do older books survive (sometimes)? Modelling the time distribution of manuscripts with a birth-death approach", to be presented
at _Computational Humanities Research 2025_.
Authors: Jean-Baptise Camps, Kelly Christensen, Ulysse Godreau, Théo Moins

## Content

The repository contains

+ `/analysis.ipynb`: notebook gathering all computations and results
+ `/data_mss.csv`: contains datation data of medieval manuscripts obtained from the [Jonas database](https://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/) (IHRT-CNRS, Section Romane, _Jonas: Répertoire des textes et livres français et occitans (850-1150)_, 2025, online: [https://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/](https://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/)), with links to the source.
+ `/data_works.csv`: contains datation data of corresponding works from the same source

## Installation

The code necessitates `python <3.13,>=3.11` and the dependencies can be installed
 in a virtual environment of you choice, by doing:

```bash
# Optional: using virtual env
python3.12 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
# install
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

The notebooks can then be run with:

```bash
jupyter lab
```