Published October 2, 2024 | Version v1
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Nuremberg Letterbooks: A Multi-Transcriptional Dataset of Early 15th Century Manuscripts for Document Analysis

Creators

  • 1. Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2. Senior Fellow of Medieval History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 3. Department of German Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 4. Chair of Regional History of Bavaria and Franconia, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Description

This dataset contains the images and labels of the Nuremberg Letterbooks dataset.

It consists of four books (books 2 - 5) with line-wise transcriptions. Three kinds of transcriptions are reported: basic, regularized, and diplomatic, with additional expanded abbreviations. 

Code templates for text verification and writer verification are available at:

When using this dataset, please cite: 
M. Mayr, J. Krenz, K. Neumeier, A. Bub, S. Bürcky, N. Brolich, K. Herbers, M. Habermann, P. Fleischmann, A. Maier, and V. Christlein.
Nuremberg Letterbooks: A Multi-Transcriptional Dataset of Early 15th Century Manuscripts for Document Analysis. Sci Data 12, 811 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05144-z

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Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Kommunikation und Sprache im Reich. Die Nürnberger Briefbücher im 15. Jahrhundert: Automatische Handschriftenerkennung - historische und sprachwissenschaftliche Analyse 416910787