fgho/hanse-niederdeutsch-plaintext
Middle Low German Administrative & Legal Sources (14th–15th century) Dataset Description This dataset consists of plain text documents in Middle Low German drawn from various administrative and legal sources as well as charters, spanning the mid-14th to the late 15th century. Data Sources Minutes of the Hanse town Assemblies (Hanserezesse) transcribed at the FGHO Charters (Urkunden), administrative records (Verwaltung), and legal sources… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/fgho/hanse-niederdeutsch-plaintext.
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- gml license: cc-by-nc-4.0 tags:
- historical-text
- middle-low-german
- hanse
- charters
- administrative-records ---
Middle Low German Administrative & Legal Sources (14th–15th century)
Dataset Description
This dataset consists of plain text documents in Middle Low German drawn from various administrative and legal sources as well as charters, spanning the mid-14th to the late 15th century.
Data Sources
- Minutes of the Hanse town Assemblies (Hanserezesse) transcribed at the FGHO
- Charters (Urkunden), administrative records (Verwaltung), and legal sources (Rechtsquellen) from the Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch (ReN; https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ren.html)
- Sources from the HansDoc database (https://hansdoc.dsm.museum/)
Data Cleaning
Special characters were removed from the text.
Citation
If you use the portion of this dataset derived from the ReN corpus, please also cite:
ReN-Team. (2021). Reference Corpus Middle Low German/Low Rhenish (1200–1650); Referenzkorpus Mittelniederdeutsch/Niederrheinisch (1200–1650) (Version 1.1) [Data set]. http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.9195
Note: the ReN corpus is released for non-commercial research and teaching purposes only — please check that your use case and license choice for this dataset comply with that restriction.