The Digital Scriptorium Project is a growing prototype image database and visual union catalogue of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. The first participants were the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Phase one of the project is now complete, and there are some 8500 colour images of manuscripts from the participating libraries (Columbia, Berkeley, and their affiliates) available online.

The next phase of the project will see the participation of the Huntington Library, the Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and the New York Public Library.

This is a specialist tool: the database is searchable by call number, author, title, incipit, place of origin, date, scribe, artist, and image caption. It is possible to call up a list of all images available for a particular shelfmark, once you know that shelfmark.

 

To go to the Digital Scriptorium home page, click here

To return to the list Medieval Manuscripts on the Web, click here