It comprises manuscripts made of paper, written in the 16th century and its dimensions are 220X165 mm. The manuscript is embellished with epititles and red initials. Tachygraphical symbols and abbreviations are encountered in the manuscript as well. The dataset of XΦ79 consists of 803 lines of text containing 4389 words (2069 unique words) that are distributed over 40 scanned handwritten text pages. For each page, a PageXML is provided containing the following ground-truth: 1) Text region polygon coordinates 2) Text line polygon coordinates with the corresponding transcription text 3) Word polygon coordinated with the corresponding transcription text