HTR Ground truth for Latin medieval manuscripts from the 12th to the 16th century. Transcription is graphematic. Transcription guidelines The transcription guidelines are described in a paper available on HAL and published at the Journal for Open Humanities Data. It provides specific details about the selection process, the transcription methods and choices, as well as details about output (mainly the Generic CREMMA Model for Medieval Manuscripts (Latin and Old French) for Kraken) Content More details of manuscripts can be found in the data-registry.csv file Shelfmark Biblissima Pages Type Century Color Script Content Egerton 821 → 4 Medic. 12 ✓ Praegothica 54v-56r: Sortes sanctorum. f. 56r: A prayer-charm for a wounded animal. ff. 56r: A charm against fever Montpellier H318 → 5 Medic. 12 ✓ Semitextualis Libraria Anonyme, De urinis, Recettes, Constantinus, Libert de coitu, Bartholomeus Salernitanus, Practica CCCC MSS 236 → 5 Lit. 13 ✓ Textualis Libraria Martial, Book 1: pr, 3, 4, 6, 15, 8-10, 13-14, 16, 19-20, 18, 21-25, 28, 33-34, 37, 40, 42-48 CLM 13027 → 5 Medic. 13 ✓ Southern Textualis Libraria Liber minor de Coitu. Galien, De Crisibus Latin 16195 → 4 Medic. 13 ✗ Semitextualis Currens Questiones De Coitu † MsWettF 15 → 5 Schol. 13 ✓ Textualis Libraria Rothwell, Commentarius in libros Sententiarum Laur. Plut. 33.31 5 Lit. 14 ✓ Textualis Meridionalis Priapea, 12-45 Arras 861 → 5 Lit. 14 ✓ Textualis Formata Seneca, Ad Lucilium, 121-122 † BIS 193 → 5 Schol. 14 ✓ Textualis currens Adam Wodeham, Ordinatio, Liber IV, Quaestio 6. Phil., Col. of Phys. 10a 135 5 Medic. 14 ✓ Cursiva recentior Tractatus de Sterilitate † Mazarine Ms. 915 → 4 Schol. 14 ✓ Textualis Meridionalis Adam Wodeham, Ordinatio ‡ UBL, Ms 758 15 Eccl. 14 ✓ Textualis Libraria In annuntiatione Mariae Latin 6395 → 6 Lit. 14 ✗ Semitextualis Libraria Seneca, Medea, 284- Laur. Plut. 39.34 5 Lit. 15 ✓ Humanistica Cursiva Priapea, 01-16 † Vat. Pal. Lat. 373 → 4 Schol. 15 ✗ Hybrida Currens Plaoul, De Fide, Lectio 1-2 Laur. Plut. 53.08 4 Gramm. 15 ✓ Personal Humanistica Donat, In Phormionem Terenti commentum Laur. Plut. 53.09 4 Gramm. 15 ✓ Humanistica Rotunda Donat, In Phormionem Terenti commentum ‡ Berlin, Hdschr. 25 17 Eccl. 15 ✓ Textualis Formata Book of Hours ‡ Berlin, Germ. Oct. 511 6 Eccl. 15 ✓ Hybrida formata Psalm. 6 Latin 8236 → 5 Lit. 15 ✗ Humanistica Cursiva Prudentius, 3.1-3.2, 3.16-3.17, 4.4-4.5; Tibullus, 3.7.74-3.7.114, 3.7.199-3.9.3 † CCCC MSS 165 → 5 Schol. 16 ✓ Personal Cursive Peter Abelard, Sic et non Credits For the manuscripts: MsWettF 15, BIS 193, Latin 6395, Vat. Pal. Lat. 373 and CCCC MSS 165, the transcriptions of Sentences Commentary Text Archive (SCTA) Project by Jeffrey C. Witt. In the case of dubia, additional corrections have been made for the faithful reproduction of the abbreviations. The GitHub repository of the project can be found here: https://github.com/scta-texts and their reading room here: https://scta.lombardpress.org/. For the Faithful Transcriptions Data Set: https://zenodo.org/record/5582483 For the Donatus manuscripts: Laurentianus Pluteus 53.08 and 53.09, the edition of HyperDonat by Bruno Bureau & Christian Nicolas has been consulted http://hyperdonat.huma-num.fr/editions/html/index.html, preserving, nevertheless, the manuscript lectiones/errors; In the same vein, for Latin 16195, the critical edition of Questiones de coitu, for Montpelier H318 and CLM 1302, the critical edition of Liber minor de coitu and for Philadelphia, College of Physicians, 10a 135, the critical edition of the Tractatus de sterilitate by Enrique Montero Cartelle were consulted respectively as reference.

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