/book-biography                           # Start interactive session
/book-biography [book_id]                 # Research specific book
/book-biography "Title or Author"         # Research by name
/book-biography import [book_id]          # Research and import related editions

curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/books/BOOK_ID" | jq '{
  title, author, year, place, publisher,
  original_language, pages: .pages_count,
  image_source
}'

# For Gallica
curl -s "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/ARK_ID"

# For Internet Archive
curl -s "https://archive.org/metadata/IA_ID" | jq '.metadata'

# For MDZ
curl -s "https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/BSB_ID/manifest"

# Search by author
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search?q=AUTHOR&limit=20" | jq '.results[] | {id, title, author}'

# Search by title/text
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search?q=TEXT_NAME&limit=20" | jq '.results[] | {id, title, author}'

# Search by theme
curl -s "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search?q=THEME&limit=20" | jq '.results[] | {id, title, author}'

curl -s "https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator:(AUTHOR)+OR+title:(TITLE)&fl[]=identifier&fl[]=title&fl[]=date&fl[]=creator&sort[]=date+asc&rows=30&output=json" | jq '.response.docs'

# Internet Archive
curl -X POST "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/import/ia" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ia_identifier": "IDENTIFIER",
    "title": "Title (Editor/Translator Year)",
    "author": "Author; Editor (ed.)",
    "year": YYYY,
    "original_language": "Language"
  }'

# Gallica
curl -X POST "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/import/gallica" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ark": "ARK_ID",
    "title": "Title",
    "author": "Author",
    "year": YYYY,
    "original_language": "Language"
  }'

# MDZ
curl -X POST "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/import/mdz" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "bsb_id": "BSB_ID",
    "title": "Title",
    "author": "Author",
    "year": YYYY,
    "original_language": "Language"
  }'

# Book Biography: [Shelfmark]

## Physical Description

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **Shelfmark** | [Institution, Collection, Number] |
| **Date** | [YYYY or range] |
| **Origin** | [Place] |
| **Format** | [Folio/Quarto/Octavo/MS] |
| **Dimensions** | [H × W mm] |
| **Foliation** | [Structure] |
| **Binding** | [Description] |
| **Scribe/Printer** | [Name] |
| **Patron/Owner** | [Name] |

---

## Contents

| No. | Text | Author | Folios |
|-----|------|--------|--------|
| 1 | [Title] | [Author] | ff. X-Y |
| 2 | [Title] | [Author] | ff. Y-Z |

---

## Production Context

### The Maker
[Biography and significance of scribe/printer]

### The Patron
[Who commissioned/owned, why]

### Historical Context
[What was happening when this was made]

---

## Textual Transmission

### The Text(s)
- **Original composition**: [Date, place, circumstances]
- **Author**: [Real name, dates, attribution issues]
- **Genre**: [Type of text]

### Stemma

### Key Witnesses
| Siglum | Manuscript | Date | Notes |
|--------|-----------|------|-------|
| A | [Shelfmark] | [Date] | [Significance] |
| B | [Shelfmark] | [Date] | [Significance] |

### This Witness
- **Exemplar**: [What it was copied from]
- **Descendants**: [What was copied from it]
- **Unique features**: [Variants, errors, additions]

---

## Related Works in Source Library

| ID | Title | Relationship |
|----|-------|--------------|
| `[id]` | [Title] | [How related] |

---

## Editions Available

### Manuscripts
| Location | Shelfmark | Date | Notes |
|----------|-----------|------|-------|
| [City] | [Shelfmark] | [Date] | [Significance] |

### Printed Editions (Chronological)
| Year | Place | Editor/Translator | Significance |
|------|-------|-------------------|--------------|
| YYYY | [City] | [Name] | [First edition/Critical/etc.] |

### On Archive.org
| ID | Title | Year | Pages |
|----|-------|------|-------|
| `[ia_id]` | [Title] | YYYY | N |

---

## Research Questions

1. [Open question about this witness]
2. [Open question about transmission]
3. [Open question about reception]

---

## Bibliography

- [Scholarly works on this text/manuscript]
- [Critical editions]
- [Catalog entries]

ANTIQUITY                BYZANTIUM              RENAISSANCE            PRINT

[Original]  ──────────►  [MS Family A]  ────►  [Humanist copy]  ────►  [Editio princeps]
                              │                       │                      │
                         [MS Family B]  ────►  [YOUR BOOK]  ◄────────────────┘
                              │                       │
                         [MS Family C]  ────►  [Later editions]

User: /book-biography 695230c6ab34727b1f044784

Agent: Researching BnF grec 2518...

## Physical Description
- **Shelfmark**: Paris, BnF, grec 2518
- **Date**: 1530-1539
- **Origin**: Venice
- **Scribe**: Ange Vergèce (royal scribe)
- **Patron**: Francis I of France

## Contents
1. Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica
2. Corpus Hermeticum
3. Ocellus Lucanus, De universi natura

## Key Finding
This manuscript predates all printed editions of its texts:
- Ocellus first printed: 1539
- Hero Pneumatica first printed: 1575
- Corpus Hermeticum (Greek): 1554

## Related Works in Source Library
[Lists 15+ related Hermetic and Ficino texts]

## Available Editions on Archive.org
[Lists 17 editions of Hero and Ocellus]

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