Research register · the findings

Findings

Three hundred and twenty-six claims on the record, tier by tier

Every finding is a tier-labelled claim drawn from the live research substrate. A Confirmed finding may be stated as fact; a Supported finding is the substrate’s preferred reading with the test on the record; a Candidate finding is an open working hypothesis; Observed findings are noted patterns with no claim yet attached; Falsified findings are tested-and-broken and kept visible so the breaker is on the page. Tier is load-bearing: the language of the page is calibrated to the tier the substrate holds.

Total on record326
Confirmed50
Supported88
Candidate100
Observed48
Falsified36
Compiled2025-08-27–2026-05-24

How to read this register

The findings shown on this page are illustrative representatives drawn from each tier — not the full register. Every finding here, and the 300+ others on the substrate, is fully addressable in the live research database, with sources, axes touched, related findings and edit history.

Each tier-card opens directly to its substrate listing. Each individual finding opens to its own substrate record — with the sources cited, the related findings linked, and the falsifier test (where one exists) on the page. It is not a static publication of results. The register is the surface of an active database: findings move tier, get re-described, or get retired as evidence accumulates.

The substrate · read-only early access

The live research store behind the register

Behind this page sits the lab’s substrate database — SQLite with full-text search (FTS5), every finding, manuscript, figure and citation rowed and indexed, every relationship and axis-link traversable. The screenshot below is the substrate’s own homepage: status, counts, and the search bar that ranges across all 326 findings, 599 manuscripts, 210 figures and 6,652 citations. The substrate is a live store; counts grow as work continues.

Substrate database homepage — heading 'Substrate database, the live research store', healthy status, last updated 2026-05-24, 50.6 MB size, 326 findings, 599 manuscripts, 210 figures; full-text search bar across findings, figures, manuscripts (FTS5); Counts table showing Figures 210, Manuscripts 599, Findings 326, Relationships 7,079, Citations 6,652.
The substrate database · homepage view · compiled 2025-08-27 through 2026-05-23

What read-only early access carries

  • Every finding deep-linkable by code (F-NNN), with sources, axes touched, related findings, and the falsifier test where one exists.
  • Every comparator manuscript’s full record: codicology, language, attestation, image paths, citations.
  • Every named figure’s region, role, dates, and the manuscripts + findings they connect to.
  • Full-text search (FTS5) across all 326 findings, 599 manuscripts, 210 figures, 6,652 citations.
  • Read-only: no edit, no write, no admin. A research-reference surface.

Why it’s gated — and how to walk it

“The point was to get people past the graveyard.”
— Ed Honeycutt, on what this work is for.

The substrate is currently a localhost-only research workspace. Read-only early access is opening on an invite basis, not because it’s precious, but because the work is to get serious researchers past the decoder-theatre graveyard and into something they can actually use — primary sources, tier-disclosed claims, falsifiers on the page. The gate is purpose, not price.

If you have a real research question and the substrate can move it forward, we want you walking it. Write to hello@honeycuttailabs.com with what you’re working on — the question tells us which surface (search, finding-record deep-link, manuscript catalogue, corridor map) to walk you through first.

Confirmed 50 on record stated as fact · falsifier visible
F-18 BnF Latin 7418 (Florilegium italicum, Italy 1301–1325) is the construction-kit source-stratum witness for MS 408’s page-architecture.
F-21 A four-axis page-habit screen across 15 witnesses produces a clean gradient; VMS f1r / f49v / f88r land in the gen-1 Latin band, not the gen-2 vernacular band.
F-24 F-CORRIDOR-1 promoted Supported → Confirmed via Hartlieb’s Padua doctorate May 11 1439 + the 15-witness page-habit gradient.
F-CORE-1 An operator grammar exists in the VMS textual channel. 31 operator classes, 226 folios, 114,507 transitions, 92.9% Currier A/B accuracy, adversarial testing 0/6 at p<0.05 for transferable cipher mapping. The procedural-engine framing this rests on is introduced in the lab’s VMS Paduan Medical Reference deposit (10.5281/zenodo.18687530).
Supported 88 on record preferred reading · test on the record
F-REGIMEN-STACK-EXT The Regimen-stack reading extends from 4 → 9 axes across the substrate corpus.
F-LAUF-CORR-WIT Heinrich Laufenberg (d. 1460) as candidate VMS-tradition contemporary witness on the South-German axis.
F-WELLCOME-MS438 Wellcome MS.438 c. 1475 binds Laufenberg + Bartholomaeus Salernitanus — a corridor-witness book.
F-APOTHECARY-READ The Laufenberg + Salernitanus combo is housed in apothecary-readership context; publication-target audience is apothecaries.
Candidate 100 on record open working hypothesis
F-CASTEL-FRED-II Castel del Monte aerial-shape match + Frederick II Salerno corridor closure.
F-SEQ-LAUF-VMS Three-position section-ordering match between Laufenberg and VMS.
F-VMS-OOO-LAUF VMS in its current binding is a post-rebinding misordering; the original order followed the Laufenberg regimen-chapter sequence.
F-TADDEO-13C-ANCH Taddeo Alderotti as 13th-century source-anchor for the 4-season regimen tradition that feeds the corridor.
Observed 48 on record pattern noted · no claim attached
F-POINTER-FAM Three pointer-mechanism types triangulated across Laufenberg + VMS.
F-FRAME-LAYERS Two distinct framework layers: foods-have-qualities vs seasons-humors-ages mapping.
F-CURRIER-LANE Currier A vs B reframed as a content-lane signature (Albicus/Fusoris herbal+astronomical lane vs Montagnana/Albic) rather than dialect.
F-DAVIS-5HANDS Davis 2020/2025’s five distinct scribal hands reframed as plausibly five cycle-class registers (or five scribes — both readings open).
Falsified 36 on record tested and broken · kept on the page
F-RETIRED-DESPARS-1 BnF Lat 6920 as a Despars partial-witness — retired after evidence broke the witness chain.
F-RETIRED-DESPARS-2 Vatican Pal.lat.1085 as a Despars partial-witness — retired.
F-RETIRED-SINGLE-CIPHER The single-cipher-invention framing of VMS — retired; substrate evidence points to layered apparatus, not single-key cipher.
F-RETIRED-BREWER-LEWIS Brewer-Lewis 2024 women’s-secrets as VMS primary thesis — retired.