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New Approaches to OCR for Early Printed Books
2020
Books printed before 1800 present major problems for OCR. One of the main obstacles is the lack of diversity of historical fonts in training data. The OCR-D project, consisting of book historians and computer scientists, aims to address this deficiency by focussing on three major issues. Our first target was to create a tool that identifies font groups automatically in images of historical documents. We concentrated on Gothic font groups that were commonly used in German texts printed in the 15th and 16th century: the well-known Fraktur and the lesser known Bastarda, Rotunda, Textura und Schwabacher. The tool was trained with 35,000 images and reaches an accuracy level of 98%. It can not on…
Cinc edicions del Venturós Pelegrí a la Bibliothèque Mazarine de París
2015
Resum : El ms. 4504 de Bibliotheque Mazarine de Paris aplega, per una banda, cinc exemplars impresos de la “Peregrinacio del Venturos Pelegri” ab les “Cobles de la Mort” i, per altra banda, una copia manuscrita parcial del Venturos Pelegri amb una traduccio francesa incompleta a cura de Josep Tastu (1787-1849), que s’encarrega de compilar tots els materials del volum. A banda de presentar el contingut general del ms. 4504, descrivim amb detall cada una de les cinc edicions, posant especial emfasi en la mes antiga, probablement datada de mitjan segle XVI o poc despres. Pel fet d’esser el testimoni mes antic que coneixem del Venturos Pelegri , aquest exemplar acefal i apode, estampat a linia …
Firme di xilografi seicenteschi nelle matrici lignee della Galleria Estense di Modena
2017
<p>Though ancient literary sources has usually revealed a scarce interest for woodcuts, the study of writings and signatures in the woodblocks of the Galleria Estense in Modena proves that woodcutters did not always remain at the borders of art history. This is true both for the Venetian production of the first half of the 16th century and for the woodcutters linked to the Accademia Clementina in the Bologna area. Several 17th century woodblocks produced at least in part in Emilia-Romagna and mostly created for large-scale printing, show writings and signatures that can be led back to woodcutters whose specific identity is not easy to discover. This practice was probably more due to c…
Representations of the Life-giving Spring feast in Romanian iconography
2021
This article explores the development of the theme of the Life-giving Spring in Byzantine iconography. The path towards its establishment was initiated at the moment when a representation rule, an original convention was set. Thereafter, because of its diffusion in time and space, the theme became enriched by particular mentalities and sensibilities of the epochs and the communities that adopted it as a form of devotion for the Virgin Theotokos. As a result, the representations we have known so far are extremely varied. Contribution: The final purpose of this approach, as well as its contribution, is to highlight the diverse unity of the iconographic tradition and illustrate both the evolut…