Nuremberg Letterbooks: A Multi-Transcriptional Dataset of Early 15th Century Manuscripts for Document Analysis

<p>This dataset contains the images and labels of the Nuremberg Letterbooks dataset.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>Code templates for text verification and writer verification are available at:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/M4rt1nM4yr/letterbooks_text_verification">https://github.com/M4rt1nM4yr/letterbooks_text_verification</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/M4rt1nM4yr/letterbooks_writer_verification">https://github.com/M4rt1nM4yr/letterbooks_writer_verification</a></li> </ul> <p>When using this dataset, please cite:&nbsp;<br>M. Mayr, J. Krenz, K. Neumeier, A. Bub, S. B&uuml;rcky, N. Brolich, K. Herbers, M. Habermann, P. Fleischmann, A. Maier, and V. Christlein<em>.</em> <br>Nuremberg Letterbooks: A Multi-Transcriptional Dataset of Early 15th Century Manuscripts for Document Analysis. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>12</strong>, 811 (2025).<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05144-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05144-z</a></p>