# I Ching source and transcription notes

The oracle identifies all 64 King Wen patterns and presents the 64 main judgments and 64 Great Image passages translated by James Legge in 1882. The coin exercise is for reflection; it is not scientific evidence of prediction. There is no quantum-computing mechanism or claim.

## Historic source and scope

James Legge, *The Yî King*, Sacred Books of the East, volume XVI, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882: [Princeton scan](https://archive.org/details/sacredbooksofchi16conf). The scanned title page says 1882; the archive's series-level metadata says 1879. This transcription uses the title-page year.

- Main judgments appear on printed pages 57–207, before the six numbered lines of each hexagram.
- Great Image passages appear in Appendix II, printed pages 267–346. Only the initial Great Image paragraph for each pattern is included; the small Images for individual changing lines and Legge's footnote explanations are excluded.
- Page links accompany each passage, including both pages when a passage continues over a page break. Archive reader page indices are zero-based: printed page 57 is reader n90, scan leaf 91. File/leaf labels must not be substituted for reader indices.
- [Original OCR text](https://archive.org/download/sacredbooksofchi16conf/sacredbooksofchi16conf_djvu.txt), SHA-256: df2ff25a759e2841b38d7b9659c823adada2f8ae062b5f72853597197bc4f93f.
- [Coordinate-bearing source OCR](https://archive.org/download/sacredbooksofchi16conf/sacredbooksofchi16conf_djvu.xml), SHA-256: 3e9823f65f22f7679277128649fcc4d1ef53ccf97954d8cb3691e57841022f5b. Source selections, page anchors and explicit corrections are preserved in the independent test fixture.

All 128 selected passages were checked against the actual scanned page images. OCR paragraph boundaries alone were insufficient: some would include preceding footnotes, omit text at a page break, or continue into numbered-line commentary. Those boundaries were corrected using the scan, not newly composed prose.

## Transcription conventions

This is a readable transcription, not a typographic facsimile. Line wrapping and wrap hyphens are joined; whitespace and spacing before punctuation are normalized. Historical romanization diacritics are rendered as unaccented Latin letters; the historical ezh-shaped initial is rendered Z. Great Image paragraph numbers are omitted from the displayed text. Explicit OCR corrections are recorded separately from the raw source selections. Historical grammar and parenthetical wording remain, including irregular printed parentheses; no missing passage is reconstructed and no modern translation is substituted.

The passages are attributed to Legge, not to NSP or VORATH. The original chamber painting is VORATH artwork. No new VORATH interpretation is presented as ancient source text. The earlier 32 records' judgment, image and VORATH prose had unresolved attribution; their exact bytes are retained in private project review lineage and are not included in this public text corpus.

No individual changing-line translation corpus is supplied. The program calculates changing line positions and the resulting pattern, while showing the main judgment and Great Image of that resulting pattern. That is different from translating the individual changing lines.

## Identity mapping and Unicode

Each six-bit identity is independently derived from Legge's six numbered line descriptions: line 1 at the bottom, undivided = 1, divided = 0. All 64 signatures are unique. The [Unicode NamesList](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt), retrieved 2026-10-18, provides U+4DC0–U+4DFF identifier names and sequence. SHA-256: e0732f7cb47a08ee2186c83a18a91ae277126e8099b53c432b4c3e32488dac9b. Characters use the reader's font; no chart artwork or reference font is redistributed. The accompanying [Unicode License V3](UNICODE-LICENSE.txt) applies to the data-derived identifiers, copyright 1991–2026 Unicode, Inc.

## Edition provenance and rights boundary

The source is the original 1882 edition, not a modern translation or new publisher introduction. The archive's US copyright inspection marks this scanned edition NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. Its title page, metadata and source hashes are retained in the project evidence. No modern translation, modern introductory essay or scanned publisher layout is redistributed here. These historical religious and divinatory passages are not factual forecasts or claims about clinical or scientific outcomes.