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language: grc
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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- config_name: default
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- name: id
dtype: string
- name: image
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- name: label
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- name: page
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pretty_name: Excerpts from Sextus Empiricus, *Pros Mathematikous*
annotations_creators:
- human-annotated
language_creators:
- found
tags:
- greek
- manuscript
- hellenistic-studies
- palaeography
- transcription
- humanities
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# LJS 380 — Excerpts from *Sextus Empiricus, Pros Mathematikous*
Sextus Empiricus, *Πρὸς μαθηματικούς* (*Against the Mathematicians*)
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## Description
This dataset contains line-level transcriptions and cropped manuscript images from a 15th-century Greek manuscript of *Pros Mathematikous* (*Against the Mathematicians*) attributed to **Sextus Empiricus**.
The manuscript is held within the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Each manuscript line has been transcribed to match the 1842 public-domain edition edited by August Immanuel Bekker.
The aligned data was used to train and evaluate machine-learning models for handwritten Greek recognition in the context of a Hellenic Studies workshop on digital palaeography.
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## Dataset contents
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|:------|:-----|:-------------|:--------|
| `id` | string | Unique line identifier (page + line number) | `0070_0002_line_0012` |
| `image` | image | Cropped PNG snippet of the handwritten line | — |
| `page` | string | Source page or folio identifier | `0070_0002` |
| `label` | string | Diplomatic Greek transcription | `σέξτος ᾽εμπειρικός πρὸς μαθηματικούς` |
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## Transcription parameters
- Orthography follows Bekker (1842).
- Abbreviations are expanded when clear.
- Line segmentation follows **PAGE-XML (2019-07-15)** standard exported from **eScriptorium**.
- Unicode normalization: NFC
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## Use cases
This dataset can support:
- Training and evaluation of HTR/OCR models for early modern Greek scripts.
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## Sources
- Manuscript: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 380 (Penn Libraries).
- Printed edition: *Sextus Empiricus*, ed. August Immanuel Bekker (Berlin, 1842).
- Preparation: Line segmentation and annotation via eScriptorium.
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