This multispectral data of the manuscript fragment "Hs. Or. 15246" was captured at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz in November 2025.

The manuscript, acquired only in 2022 (see https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE1Book_manuscript_00066341), is a palimpsest with both its overtext and its undertext in Armenian. The lower layer, written in majuscules throughout, is a very important early witness of the Armenian Bible translation; it contains the Acts of Apostles and the Catholic Letters with remnants of the so-called Euthalian apparatus. 

The MSI campaign was co-organised by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB) (https://ror.org/02ysgg478), the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), ERC project Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories (DeLiCaTe). Imaging was carried out using the CSMC MegaVision E7 multispectral imaging system. The MSI system was operated by the CSMC staff, the object was prepared and handled by the staff of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preusissscher Kulturbesitz conservation department. (See contributors)

Preview JPEGs in sRGB color space are compressed and of lower quality and are only intended for quick previewing. Original, high quality, D50 CIELAB TIF images can be found in the Color folders within each ZIP file and in the PROCESSED folder. Each uploaded ZIP file contains a folder with the 16bit flattened TIF images (carrying 12bit data) ready for image processing, a folder with preview 8bit JPG images and a processed folder with 8 or 24 bit processed images. Raw images are not included in this dataset simply for size reduction purposes. Raw images are stored internally on the servers of CSMC and, if necessary, can be separately accessed upon a reasonable request. For information about filenames and folder structure as well as MSI system, please see the files in the "info" folder and read the Brief Descriptions of Multispectral Imaging (MSI) Datasets as well as the "readme" file.

The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796, and by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme -- project DeLiCaTe, Grant agreement No. 101019006. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.

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