This dataset was created in the context of the following study:

Sebastian Bosch and Andreas Janke, “Manuscript Illumination in 19th-century Italy. Material Analysis of Two Partial Copies from the Squarcialupi Codex” Open Information Science, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 63-88.

The data was recorded with the following instruments. We refer to the foliation numbers as used in the manuscript.

R_DINO: micrographs (bmp files) recorded under visible (VIS), ultraviolet (UV) and near infrared (NIR) light with the three-colour imaging USB microscope (Dino-lite AD413T-I2V, Metav, Germany); folder “spots_pdf”: documentation of microscopy spots (pdf files)

VIS_EXACT: folder “raw”: raw spectra (xlsx files) recorded with the portable visible reflectance spectrometer EXACT (X-rite GmbH, Germany); folder “spots_pdf”: documentation of measurement spots (pdf files); the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju files)

XRF_ELIO: folder “raw”: raw spectra recorded with the portable XRF spectrometer ELIO (XGLab S.R.L., Italy, software version 1.5.7.7) as a project file (Toronto 2018.xga) and as individual files (spx and txt) with micrographs exported from the ELIO camera for the measured gold areas in folder “pics_gold_bmp” as bmp files; folder “results_csv”: csv files with net intensity values of assigned elements evaluated by SPECTRA software, ARTAX 7.2.5.0 (Bruker Nano GmbH, Germany); folder “spots_pdf”: documentation of measurement spots (pdf files); the raw data was further plotted and evaluated with the software OriginPro 2018G version b9.5.0.193 (opju files)

This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), first as part of Sonderforschungsbereich 950 (SFB 950) and then under Germany's Excellence Strategy programme (EXC 2176 "Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures", project no. 390893796). The research was conducted within the scope of the work conducted at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University .