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” Open Information Science, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 63-88.

The data was recorded with the following instruments.

R_DINO: 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) and the documentation of microscopy spots as pdf file

IRR_APOLLO: folder “raw”: images recorded with an Apollo reflectography camera (Opus Instruments, UK); folder “WB”: images normalized using a diffuse reflectance standard (Spectralon SRM-99)

VIS_EXACT: raw spectra (xlsx file) recorded with a portable visible reflectance spectrometer EXACT (X-rite GmbH, Germany); documentation of measurement spots (pdf file); the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju file)

XRF_ELIO: folder “raw”: raw spectra recorded with a portable XRF spectrometer ELIO (XGLab S.R.L., Italy, software version 1.5.7.7) as a project file (20181120_Duesseldorf.xga) and as individual files (spx) with micrographs (bmp files) exported from the ELIO camera in folder “pics_gold_bmp”; xlsx file with net intensity values of assigned elements evaluated by SPECTRA software, ARTAX 7.2.5.0 (Bruker Nano GmbH, Germany); documentation of measurement spots (pdf file); the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju files)

This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), first as part of Sonderforschungsbereich 950 (SFB 950) and then under Germany's Excellence Strategy programme (EXC 2176 "Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures", project no. 390893796). The research was conducted within the scope of the work conducted at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University .