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Pentateuch, Add MS 4709
Pentateuch with the Five Scrolls, Psalms, Job and the Haftarot. Italy, 1486. Modelled for the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Digitisation Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Modelling: Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Special thanks to Kristin Phelps. For the entire manuscript, visit: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_4709British Library
manuscript, Bible, 3D model, Hebrew, Pentateuch, and Torah
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Oracle Bone, Or 7694/1595
An inscribed oracle bone (jia gu 甲骨) from the Couling-Chalfant collection at the British Library. Oracle bones were animal bones, usually ox shoulder bones or the underside of turtle shells, used for divination rituals in ancient China. Dating to the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – 1050 BC), they bear the...British Library
oracle bone, Chinese, 3D model, and Shang Dynasty
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Lion Model, Foster 872
Lion - Foster 872 A model of a lion. By Gangaram, 1790. Wax, possibly dhuna, the aromatic gum of the shal tree (Shorea robusta), painted; size of wooden base: 20.5 x 9.75 x 2cm; animal 12.5cm at highest point of mane. F872 Our lion also featured on a blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2014/08/the-maratha-artist-gangaram-cintaman-tambat.htmlBritish Library
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Esther Scroll, Add MS 11831
Esther scroll (Megilat Ester) in an ivory case. Unknown origin, 17th century. Modelled for the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Digitisation Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Modelling: Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Special thanks to Kristin Phelps, Thomas Flynn and Ilana Tahan. Model is an edited approximation of the actual object For the...British Library
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Dataset
Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Transkribus
This dataset comprises 74 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
OCR, transcription, and Indian
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Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents competition
This dataset comprises 81 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical...British Library ; Derrick, Tom
Indian, transcription, and OCR
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Digitised Books - Images identified as Medium Sized Images. c. 1567 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 217,101 images identified as 'Medium Sized Images' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1567 - c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Medium Sized...British Library ; British Library Labs
medium sized images, books, images, digitised, and Microsoft
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Digitised Books - Images of the bound covers of books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 61,561 images identified as 'Book Covers' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1510 - c. 1900.British Library ; British Library Labs
digitised, books, Microsoft, images, and bookcovers
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AAS Card Catalogues: Chinese (Wade Giles)
This dataset contains digitised cards from the Wade-Giles card catalogue.British Library
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Digitised Books - Images identified as Plates. c. 1528 - c. 1900. JPG
The dataset comprises c. 385,237 images identified as 'Plates' from the British Library's Flickr Commons collections, dating between c. 1528 – c. 1900. The images were algorithmically gathered from 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900; Plates have currently been...British Library ; British Library Labs