subject: eikon-basilike
retrieved: "2026-10-02"
# Authenticity of each source is the authenticity of a DOCUMENT as a printed work or a transcription of one. The authorship of the King's Book is the
# question of the dig (claim eikon-charles-wrote-book), not a source property. Wikipedia pages linked on the open question page are orientation only and are not sources.
sources:
  - id: src-tcp-a38258
    title: "Eikon basilike, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings (1648 [1649]), EEBO-TCP A38258; first edition, second issue"
    document_class: primary_text (hand-keyed transcription of a printed book)
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A38258
    authenticity:
      status: authenticated
      strength: moderate
      provenance: "EEBO-TCP transcription from Early English Books Online image set 58806 (microfilm of the Huntington Library copy); catalogue note: 'Printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston ... probably about 4 February'."
      tests:
        - "Header, imprint and issue note read in the TEI file downloaded 2026-10-02 [read]"
        - "Word count of the TEI text about 60,300 (the open question page gives 60,359) [counted]"
      tested_by: "Strata session, 2026-10-02 (not an independent review)"
      gaps:
        - "Transcription, not compared with the page images."
        - "Catalogued as the SECOND issue of the first edition; the open question page calls it 'the first issue'."
        - "Authenticity here is as a printed edition of 1649; who wrote the text is the open question."
      checked: 2026-10-02
    stored_as: "not stored (public GitHub repository); fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/textcreationpartnership/A38258/master/A38258.xml"
  - id: src-tcp-a50898
    title: "Milton, Eikonoklastes (second, enlarged edition, London 1650), EEBO-TCP A50898"
    document_class: primary_text
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A50898
    authenticity:
      status: authenticated
      strength: moderate
      provenance: "EEBO-TCP transcription; catalogue: 'Publish'd now the second time and much enlarg'd ... Printed by T.N. ... London: 1650'."
      tests: ["The passage on 'Pammela's Prayer' read in the text layer [read]"]
      tested_by: "Strata session, 2026-10-02 (not an independent review)"
      gaps: ["This is the 1650 second edition, not the 1649 first edition the open question claim refers to.", "Transcription, not compared with the page images."]
      checked: 2026-10-02
  - id: src-tcp-a31932
    title: "The Kings cabinet opened (1645), EEBO-TCP A31932: papers taken at Naseby, 14 June 1645"
    document_class: primary_text (published by Parliament)
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A31932
    authenticity:
      status: disputed
      strength: moderate
      provenance: "Published by order of Parliament with annotations; the letters are the King's, taken in his cabinet at Naseby."
      tests: ["Title page read: 'written with the Kings own hand, and taken in his cabinet at Nasby-Field, June 14. 1645' [read]"]
      tested_by: "Strata session, 2026-10-02 (not an independent review)"
      gaps:
        - "Royalists alleged Parliament altered the letters (gap G-02); not tested here."
        - "The open question's test uses only the King's letters and removes the annotations; which parts are Charles's is gap G-01."
      next_step: "Compare with Charles I in 1646 (Camden Society, 1856) and modern editions."
      checked: 2026-10-02
  - id: src-tcp-a78958
    title: "The papers which passed at New-Castle betwixt His sacred Majestie and Mr Alex: Henderson (Anno Dom. 1646; printed for R. Royston 1649), EEBO-TCP A78958"
    document_class: primary_text
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A78958
    authenticity:
      status: authenticated
      strength: moderate
      provenance: "Printed by Grismond for Royston, 1649 (the book's own publisher); the papers are signed 'C.R.' for Charles."
      tests: ["Title page and imprint read [read]"]
      gaps: ["Printed by the same royalist publisher as the King's Book; attributions of individual papers to Charles are from the signatures and not independently tested."]
      checked: 2026-10-02
  - id: src-tcp-a12229
    title: "Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1590), EEBO-TCP A12229"
    document_class: primary_text
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A12229
    authenticity: {status: authenticated, strength: moderate, provenance: "EEBO-TCP transcription.", gaps: ["Not re-read in this session beyond use by the test."], checked: 2026-10-02}
  - id: src-tcp-a31771
    title: "The 1687 Works containing the 'Prayer in time of Captivity', EEBO-TCP A31771"
    document_class: primary_text
    url: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A31771
    authenticity: {status: unchecked, gaps: ["Not read in this session; used by the open question's positive control."], checked: 2026-10-02}
  - id: src-tcp-corpora
    title: "Comparison corpora: Gauden (13 works, A42489 A42498 A42492 A42483 A42487 A42490 A42495 A42475 A42477 A42491 A42496 A42479 A42476), Taylor (A13414 A27805 A63653 A63711, letter A63729), eight control divines (A45397 A57134 A01344 A02549 A64646 A62025 A26864 A31927), all EEBO-TCP"
    document_class: primary_text
    authenticity:
      status: unchecked
      strength: moderate
      gaps:
        - "Attribution of each work to its author follows the TCP catalogue; 'secure' works were chosen by the open question author and disputed attributions left out."
        - "Genres differ (sermons and treatises vs meditation vs private letters): the genre confound is addressed by Taylor as a control (finding F4) but not removed."
      checked: 2026-10-02
  - id: src-bruce-1856
    title: "J. Bruce (ed.), Charles I in 1646 (Camden Society, 1856), Internet Archive charlesiinlette00chargoog"
    document_class: primary_text (edition of the King's letters)
    url: https://archive.org/details/charlesiinlette00chargoog
    authenticity: {status: unchecked, gaps: ["OCR text used by the open question's charles1646.py; not read in this session beyond the reproduction."], checked: 2026-10-02}
  - id: src-library-gauden
    title: "'John Gauden and the Authorship of the Eikon Basilike', The Library, s5-XX(2)"
    document_class: interpretive
    authenticity: {status: unchecked, gaps: ["Not read; listed on the open question page as 'not yet read'."], checked: 2026-10-02}