Scientific Analysis of Manuscript Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700

This dataset was created in the context of the following study: Sebastian Bosch and Andreas Janke, “Manuscript Illumination in 19th-century Italy. Material Analysis of Two Partial Copies from the Squarcialupi Codex” <em>Open Information Science</em>, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 63-88. The data was recorded with the following instruments. We refer to the foliation numbers as used in the manuscript. <strong>R_DINO:</strong><br> micrographs (bmp files) recorded under visible (VIS), ultraviolet (UV) and near infrared (NIR) light with the three-colour imaging USB microscope (Dino-lite AD413T-I2V, Metav, Germany);<br> <strong>folder <strong>“</strong>spots_pdf<strong>”</strong></strong>: documentation of microscopy spots (pdf files) <br> <strong>VIS_EXACT:</strong><br> <strong>folder <strong>“</strong>raw<strong>”</strong></strong>: raw spectra (xlsx files) recorded with the portable visible reflectance spectrometer EXACT (X-rite GmbH, Germany);<br> <strong>folder <strong>“</strong>spots_pdf<strong>”</strong></strong>: documentation of measurement spots (pdf files);<br> the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju files) <br> <strong>XRF_ELIO:<br> folder <strong>“</strong>raw<strong>”</strong></strong>: raw spectra recorded with the portable XRF spectrometer ELIO (XGLab S.R.L., Italy, software version 1.5.7.7) as a project file (Toronto 2018.xga) and as individual files (spx and txt) with micrographs exported from the ELIO camera for the measured gold areas in folder “pics_gold_bmp” as bmp files;<br> <strong>folder <strong>“</strong>results_csv<strong>”</strong></strong>: csv files with net intensity values of assigned elements evaluated by SPECTRA software, ARTAX 7.2.5.0 (Bruker Nano GmbH, Germany);<br> <strong>folder <strong>“</strong>spots_pdf<strong>”</strong></strong>: documentation of measurement spots (pdf files);<br> the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju files)