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Template:Infobox Historical Source/doc

Template page

A formatted infobox for primary historical texts relevant to cannabis documentation and taxonomy. Used on article pages for foundational works such as botanical treatises, colonial surveys, ethnobotanical studies and field reports.

Usage

{{Infobox Historical Source
|title_original    = Het Amboinsche Kruid-boek
|title_english     = The Amboinese Herbal
|title_latin       = Herbarium Amboinense
|image             = Herbarium_Amboinense_Vol5_Plate_LXXVII.jpg
|image_caption     = Tab. LXXVII: Cannabis indica, male (Fig. 1) and Ginji Papoua (Fig. 2)
|author            = Georg Eberhard Rumphius
|author_dates      = 1627–1702
|editor            = Johannes Burman
|language          = Latin, Dutch
|composed          = c. 1690
|published         = 1741–1750
|publisher         = Changuion, Uytwerf & Catuffe
|place             = Amsterdam
|volumes           = 6
|pages_total       = 
|cannabis_volume   = 5
|cannabis_pages    = 208–211
|cannabis_chapter  = XXXIV (De Indische Hennip)
|cannabis_plates   = Tab. LXXVII
|growing_regions   = Ambon, Java, Papua
|varieties         = Ginji Lacki Lacki, Ginji Papoua
|preparations      = Smoked with tobacco, Majub, leaf tea, juice with betel
|uses_documented   = Medicinal, recreational, aphrodisiac, military
|taxonomic_significance = First use of the name "Cannabis indica"
|digital_facsimile = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10355
|original_held_at  = Leiden University Libraries (MS BPL 314)
|translation       = Beekman, E.M. (2011). ''The Ambonese Herbal''
|period            = Pre-1800 sources
|regional_cat      = Indonesia
}}

Parameters

Parameter Required Description
title_original Yes Title in original language
title_english No English translation of title
title_latin No Latin title (for works with multiple language editions)
image No Filename of representative image (plate, title page, etc.)
image_caption No Caption for image
image_alt No Alternative text for the image, for readers who cannot see it. Describe what the image shows, rather than repeating the caption. Defaults to the caption, then to the title
author Yes Primary author
author_dates No Birth–death years
editor No Editor (especially for posthumous works)
language No Language(s) of text
composed No Date or range when composed
composed_date No Stored as the composition date in place of composed. Use it when composed is not a date or range the property can read, such as a century, and leave it empty to store nothing
published Yes Publication date
publisher No Publisher name
place No Place of publication
volumes No Number of volumes
pages_total No Total pages across all volumes
cannabis_volume No Volume containing cannabis content
cannabis_pages No Page range for cannabis content
cannabis_chapter No Chapter number/title for cannabis content
cannabis_plates No Plate numbers depicting cannabis
growing_regions No Growing regions documented (descriptive prose; not used for categorisation)
varieties No Varieties or landraces described
preparations No Cannabis preparations documented
uses_documented No Types of use documented
taxonomic_significance No Key taxonomic contributions
digital_facsimile No URL to digitised version. The link label is taken from the host: the Internet Archive, BHL, the National Library of Scotland, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Delpher, Gallica, JSTOR and Google Books are recognised, and anything else reads "View the digitised copy"
facsimile_label No Overrides that label. Use it for a host the template does not know, or when the link needs naming more exactly
original_held_at No Library/archive holding the original manuscript
translation No Modern translation reference
period Yes Time period category. One of: Pre-1800 sources, 19th century sources, 20th century sources, 21st century sources
regional_cat No Regional category. Country or region the source pertains to (eg Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Southeast Asia). Leave blank for sources without a clear regional focus.

Categories

Pages using this template are placed in the period category set by the period parameter, plus a regional category if regional_cat is set.

Semantic properties

The template emits the following SMW properties via #set. Display-only parameters (author dates, Latin title, volume and total-page counts, chapter and plate references, growing regions, varieties, preparations and uses) are not stored. The period and regional_cat values drive categories rather than properties.

Parameter Property
title_original Has source title
title_english Has source title english
author Has source author
editor Has source editor (no Property page, so the value is stored as a page name and must not contain a link)
language Has source language
composed_date, else composed Has composition date
published Has publication date
publisher Has publisher
place Has publication place
cannabis_volume Has cannabis volume
cannabis_pages Has cannabis pages
taxonomic_significance Has taxonomic significance
digital_facsimile Has digital facsimile URL
original_held_at Has original held at
translation Has source translation reference

See also