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Randall Open Manuscript Segmentations This is a dataset of hand-annotated segmentation maps for medieval manuscripts indexed in Lilian Randall's Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (1966). It contains 148 training pages and 21 test pages with semantic segmentation masks that distinguish 7 classes of decorative elements. Text, blank page, and other non-decorative regions pixels are grouped together into the background class. Fields name, uuid… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/wellesley-easel/randall-open-segmentations.

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Randall Open Manuscript Segmentations

This is a dataset of hand-annotated segmentation maps for medieval manuscripts indexed in Lilian Randall's Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (1966). It contains 148 training pages and 21 test pages with semantic segmentation masks that distinguish 7 classes of decorative elements. Text, blank page, and other non-decorative regions pixels are grouped together into the background class.

Fields

  • —name, uuid, pixel_values, labels, label_status, segments_metadata, and segments_annotations.
  • —source_image_credit gives a page-specific source credit containing the holding institution, manuscript shelfmark/accession, and folio/page when one is available.
LabelCategory
"0""background"
"1""line filler"
"2""marginal images"
"3""painted initials"
"4""miniatures"
"5""borders"
"6""pen flourishing"
"7""pen flourished texts"

Included sources and image rights

This is a mixed-rights dataset. The license: other metadata deliberately does not claim one blanket license for every component.

SourceRowsImage statusEvidence
Walters Art Museum, MSS W.37, W.39, W.45, W.82, W.85, W.87, W.90, W.102, W.110143CC0 1.0Walters rights and reproductions policy
J. Paul Getty Museum, Ruskin Hours, 83.ML.994CC0 1.0Getty IIIF manifest
J. Paul Getty Museum, Breviary, 83.ML.985CC0 1.0Getty IIIF manifest
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Sal. IX,5112Public Domain Mark 1.0Heidelberg object record
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gall. 16 (bsb00056556)5Public Domain Mark 1.0BSB IIIF manifest

Getty credits include the institution's suggested Open Content wording. Walters CC0 does not require attribution, but credits are supplied for scholarly traceability. Heidelberg and BSB source references are also retained in the credit field.

Selection policy and limitations

Only source manuscripts with an explicit CC0 1.0 dedication or Public Domain Mark 1.0 were included. The rights statements concern the source manuscript images. Users should still review the source records and determine whether their intended use complies with applicable law.