The dataset Provenance Data for the Chinese Medical Manuscripts in the Unschuld Collection contains data retrieved from an acquisition notebook in the possession of Paul U. Unschuld that was synthesized with data retrieved from the manuscripts themselves and documents kept in the archives of the Berlin State Library (SBB). The data retrieval took place in 2024. By combining these two strands of data, it was possible to match records on manuscript acquisitions in the notebook with actual manuscripts now part of the Unschuld collection (“Sammlung Unschuld”) of the SBB, thereby gaining new provenance data (time and/or place of acquisition) for a substantial number of manuscripts.

The research for this dataset 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. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at the University of Hamburg.