DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17910065
title: HTR Winter School 2025 - Medieval Czech - Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, shelfmark BJ Rkp. 441 IV

description: This dataset contains ground truth based on the the Kronika česká do roku 1330 (1531, Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, shelfmark BJ Rkp. 441 IV, available from: https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/361505/edition/344903#description, Old Czech) and it was prepared by participants of the Czech group during Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources, held in Vienna in 2025.

Manuscript: Old Czech, Gothic Bastarda, beginning of the 16th C.

 

Origin of the data

Source of images: Jagiellońska Biblioteka Cyfrowa https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/361505/edition/344903#description

 

Transcription Rules for Pulkava's Chronicle: Transliteration



General Principle: The text is transliterated in the edition, i.e., reproduced without changing the orthographic system.

Limitations: The used "measure" of transliteration has its limits; it cannot be considered a complete transcription of all literal elements of the source document.

Letter Forms:



 We do not distinguish different graphic forms of letters (simple `<v>`, `<v>` with a loop, etc.). 

 We do distinguish the round `
` and the long `<ſ>`.

 We do not distinguish the dotted i `<i>` and the dotless i `<ı>`; these allographs are transcribed according to the current usage as a single letter `<i>`.

 We do not transcribe initials (Transkribus cannot recognize them and place them on the same line with the rest of the text).



Punctuation & Diacritics:



We keep the punctuation as it appears in the manuscript.

We standardize various marks above the graphemes to a dot, caron (háček), or accent (čárka).

We transcribe the caron according to the print, i.e., even `m̌`, `ň`, although in modern orthography we would write `ě`.

We do not reconstruct vowel quantity.



Capitalization:



 We write uppercase and lowercase letters according to the manuscript.



Word Segmentation:



 In the transliterated transcription, we separate prepositions, conjunctions, and names.

 We do not separate emphatic particles `-ť`, `-ž`.



Morphology: In word forms, we respect fluctuation and the simplification of geminates.

Methodology: Unlike paleographic transcription, this is not an imitation of the manuscript (e.g., distinguishing various graphic forms of letters with the exception of distinguishing the long and round s), but a character-for-character transcription.

Foliation: We do not transcribe foliation.

Abbreviations:



We tag the abbreviation with "abbreviation" and write it out in "expansion".

We do not expand scribal abbreviations in parentheses according to usage, but transcribe them according to their form in the manuscript (e.g., `ḡt`); the loop is transcribed on the first letter as a horizontal line.

If the abbreviation is in an inflectional ending, the last letters are written small above the baseline; we transcribe them in a superscript (e.g., `mnohéo`).




Data organisation 

Selection of semi-diplomatic transcribed texts from the so-called Krakow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, shelfmark BJ Rkp. 441 IV (1531). Texts were transcribed by the participants of the HTR Winter School 2025 in Vienna:

Daniel Katscher: 2r; 14r

Tereza Hejdová: 2v; 14v

Veronika Jakubcová: 3r; 15r

Marie Urbánková: 3v; 15v

Jan Dušek: 4v; 16r

Barbora Doušková: 5v; 16v

Karolina Švecová: 6r; 17r

Veronika Nová: 6v; 17v

Linda Rudenka: 7r

Martina Spěváčková: 7v; 18r

Jana Mešková: 8r; 18v

Markéta Pytlíková: 8v; 19r

Laura Landová: 9r; 19v

Michaela Reimannová: 9v; 20r

Kateřina Kozlovská: 10r; 20v

Vika Veličkaite: 10v; 21r

Andrej Kostelník: 11r; 21v

Anna Javoříková: 12r; 22r

Diana Kostelníková: 12v; 23r

Věra Soukupová: 13v; 23v

 

and corrected by Anna Michalcová, Jitka Filipová and Eliška Pěnkavová.

Number of transcribed pages is listed above.

 

How to cite

This dataset was created by Barbora Doušková, Jan Dušek, Jitka Filipová, Marie Hedvíková, Tereza Hejdová, Veronika Jakubcová, Anna Javoříková, Daniel Katscher Andrej Kostelník, Diana Kostelníková, Kateřina Kozlovská, Laura Landová, Jana Mešková, Anna Michalcová, Veronika Nová, Eliška Pěnkavová, Markéta Pytlíková, Michal Racyn, Michaela Reimannová, Věra Soukupová, Martina Spěváčková, Karolina Švecová, Marie Urbánková, Vika Veličkaite. The digitisation is not copyright free, but the transcription is. However, properly annotating a corpus takes time and is a task that should be recognised. If you use any item from this corpus as ground truth, cite the dataset using the following information 

Copyright and licence

This dataset was created as part of the Winter School of HTR of Historical Sources 2025, Vienna at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, all transcriptions are licensed under the Creative Commons 4 licence. Images were provided by the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) and are licensed under Creative Commons 4 licence.