This dataset was created in the context of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) and Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA).

Manuscript

tsakalis cards

Spectra

The spectra were recorded with the portable FTIR spectrometer 4100 ExoScan (Agilent) in DRIFTS mode. The raw spectra are stored as .spc files.

Spectra file names are structured as follows: "Date of the measurement_Name of the instrument_accessory name_no. of scans_name of the manuscript_measurement name.spc"

Date of the measurement: yyyymmdd
Name of the instrument: E for ExoScan
accessory name: DRIFT
no. of scans: 256
name of the manuscript: Tsakalis
measurement name: "page image name_page_area_No"

    card set (A, B)
    card name (3,7, ... , B, C, ...)
    page: no. of measured page and r,v (recto, verso)
    No: number of measurement (on this card)

The research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.