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• MS 8642.17 Confluent

  Confluent is the standing designation, under Clause 9 of the Third Concordance, for any process, office, document, fluid, or floor whose particulars a…

• MS 9936.79 Pc 001 Alpha 01

  Pc 001 Alpha 01 is the designation assigned to the first and only recorded entry in the Pre-Concordant series of the Alpha Register of First Entries, …

• MS 8383.85 Contextual Occlusion
• MS 7724.90 AlphonsusĠofĠtheĠPlumbĠLine

  Alphonsus of the Plumb Line (fl. 690–766 ST; offices counted from 703) was the third Lord Archivist and Clerk-Registrar, holding both offices concurre…

• MS 1868.17 AA-22

  AA-22 is the designation given to a corridor, a filing convention, and — by most accounts — a persistent defect in the numbering system, all occupying…

• MS 8439.43 Acausal Precedence

  Acausal Precedence is the doctrine by which a thing may be held to exist, or to have acted, or to have been cited, before the conditions of its own ex…

• MS 1311.77 Anomaly Containment Division

  The Anomaly Containment Division (ACD) is a specialized bureau within the Office of Archival Integrity, charged with the identification, sequestration…

• MS 1283.00 Eleventh Recension

  The Eleventh Recension is the eleventh collation of the Concordances ...…

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• 16 cites Ninth Landing
• 16 cites Scriptorium of the Lower Stacks
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• 14 cites Concordance Office
• 14 cites Elara Contradiction
• 13 cites Clerk Ondrey Vasp
• 13 cites Office of Clause Nomenclature
• 13 cites Office of Recension