HTR Winter School 2023/2024 - Late Medieval Latin, ONB 3891

HTR Winter School 2023/2024 - Late Medieval Latin, ONB 3891

Short description of the record

Ground truth for ÖNB 3891 manuscript prepared in Transkribus within Winter School of Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Manuscripts, 2023/2024 in Vienna.

Description

Sermones by Thomas Ebendorfer (1388-1464) as found in MS Vienna, Austrian National Library (ÖNB), Cod. 3891. Wolfgang Chranekker, an organist in St. Wolfgang, finished the writing in 1441. See the description of the manuscript at [Manuscripta.at](https://manuscripta.at/hs_detail.php?ID=6137). 

Writing: Latin, Bastarda, mid 15th C.

Origin of the data

Source of images: Austrian National Library

Description or citation of transcription guidelines

 expanded abbrevations

 preserved original punctuation

 preserved the original interpunction

 used "/" for virgula

 didn´t add "." at the end of sentences

 used ¬ at the end of the line if a word is divided

 used "v" for consonant and "u" for vocal

 used i for i/j

 used s for ſ/s

 used c/t as in the manuscript

 no capitalization of letters

 preserved "ll" in the place of L, "ff" in the place of "F", etc.

 separated prepositions from words

 wrote words together that ought to be written together 

 preserved numbers

See Google docs

On encoding

Pages are marked as "ground truth", if they were checked more than once, and "final", if they were checked only once.

Unclear passages are marked as "unclear" in Transkribus.

How to cite

This dataset was created by Cehuľová Viktória, Ciuntu Mara-Elena, Engelmaier Leonhard, Kohn Albert, Lukáč Kováčová Magdaléna, Lukáč Labancová Ivana, Mihaljević Ana, Odstrčilík Jan, Roček Martin, Rokpelne Liene, Scalia Andrea, Šaldová Zuzana, Vašíček Andrej, Yücel Fatih, Zelenková Adéla. The digitisation is not copyright free, but the transcription is. However, properly annotating a corpus takes time and is a task that should be recognised. If you use any item from this corpus as ground truth, cite the dataset using the following information

Copyright and licence

This dataset was created as part of the Winter School of Handwritten Text Recognition of Medieval Manuscripts 2023/2024, Vienna at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, all transcriptions are licensed under the Creative Commons 4 licence. Images were provided by the Austrian National Library (ÖNB).