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| language: fr |
| license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| dataset_info: |
| - config_name: default |
| features: |
| - name: id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: image |
| dtype: image |
| - name: label |
| dtype: string |
| - name: page |
| dtype: string |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_examples: 940 |
| num_bytes: 255688583.0 |
| size_categories: 1K<n<10K |
| task_categories: |
| - image-to-text |
| - other |
| pretty_name: Manuscrit Moreau 841 — Jacques Cartier, *Relation* (1534) |
| annotations_creators: |
| - human-annotated |
| language_creators: |
| - found |
| tags: |
| - early-modern-french |
| - manuscript |
| - exploration |
| - cartier-1534 |
| - transcription |
| - humanities |
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| |
| # Manuscrit Moreau 841 — Jacques Cartier, *Relation* (1534) |
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| ## Description |
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| This dataset contains a transcription of the manuscript known as *Ms. Moreau 841* (Bibliothèque nationale de France), a manuscript copy of the *Relation* describing Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage to North America. |
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| The present dataset was transcribed and aligned to corresponding image segments to support research in handwritten text recognition. |
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| **BnF Catalog record:** [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10035580h/f57/f57.item) |
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| ## Dataset contents |
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| | Field | Type | Description | Example | |
| |:------|:-----|:-------------|:--------| |
| | `id` | string | Unique line identifier (page + line number) | `P001_L001` | |
| | `image` | string | Relative path or URL to cropped line image | `images/P001_L001.jpg` | |
| | `page` | string | Source page identifier | `P001` | |
| | `label` | string | Diplomatic transcription of the handwritten line | `Le vingt & cinq iour d’aoust nous descouvrismes vne terre...` | |
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| ## Transcription parameters |
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| - Original spelling, capitalization, and punctuation preserved. |
| - Abbreviations not expanded unless essential for clarity. |
| - Lineation follows the manuscript: one record per handwritten line. |
| - Ligatures and special characters normalized to Unicode NFKC. |
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| The transcription was completed manually using **eScriptorium** for line segmentation and annotation, exported in **PAGE XML (2019-07-15)** format, and then converted into tabular form for reuse and model training. |
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| ## Use cases |
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| This dataset can support: |
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| - Training or evaluating OCR/HTR models on early modern French handwriting. |
| - Digital humanities and paleography research. |
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