Description
Under the supervision of Moritz Draschner, this model was trained on a corpus of Old English hagiography written in English Vernacular Minuscule. This hand, which survives in the 11th-century British Library manuscript Julius E.vii, was transcribed by a group of undergraduate students at the University of Düsseldorf over the span of four months.
Version 1.0 of the model can reliably read square-influenced English Vernacular Minuscule hands resembling the one in Julius E.vii. It was trained to recognise unusual letterforms such as thorn, eth and wynn, as well as Tironian characters and scribal abbreviations prevalent in Old English prose and poetry.
The transcription team consisted of Lina Doleys, Quinn Grabowski, Audrey Heimann, Sean McCormick-Silex, Andrej Meysing, Teona Sandu, Hanna Wierutsch, Marie Witzke, Mats Zimmermann and Jessica Zipfel.
The manuscript used in the training of this model was digitised by the British Library, and the images are available in the Public Domain.