evndttr/Notes_de_lecture_PUL-Thevet_1575_Cosmographie
Notes de lecture, ca. 1578-1612 - Notes on André Thevet, Cosmographie universelle (1575) Description This dataset contains a excerpted transcription of Notes de lecture, ca. 1578-1612 — an anonymous commonplace book held at the Princeton University Library.This section of the manuscript records excerpts, paraphrases, and annotations taken from Thevet’s Cosmographie universelle (Paris, 1575). The present dataset includes a 15-page excerpt transcribed and aligned to… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/evndttr/Notes_de_lecture_PUL-Thevet_1575_Cosmographie.
Notes de lecture, ca. 1578-1612 - Notes on André Thevet, Cosmographie universelle (1575)
Description
This dataset contains a excerpted transcription of Notes de lecture, ca. 1578-1612 — an anonymous commonplace book held at the Princeton University Library. This section of the manuscript records excerpts, paraphrases, and annotations taken from Thevet’s Cosmographie universelle (Paris, 1575).
The present dataset includes a 15-page excerpt transcribed and aligned to corresponding image segments as part of a 2023 Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities (CDH).
Catalog record: Princeton University Library Catalog — 9960613933506421
Dataset contents
Transcription parameters
- Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation preserved as written.
- Abbreviations are not expanded
The transcription was completed manually using Transkribus for segmentation and line-level annotation, exported in PAGE XML (2019-07-15) format, and later converted to tabular data for reuse and model training.
Use cases
This dataset can support:
- Training or evaluating OCR/HTR models on early modern French handwriting
- Text reuse and intertextuality studies (commonplace book ↔ Thevet’s printed text)