American Academy in Rome, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library, Barbara Goldsmith Rare Book Room
Boston Public Library
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
California State Library, Sutro Library
City College of New York, Morris R. Cohen Library, Archives and Special Collections
Columbia University Libraries and Barnard College Library
Conception Abbey, Library
Cornell University
Folger Shakespeare Library
Fordham University, Archives and Special Collections
Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
General Theological Seminary, Christoph Keller, Jr. Library
The Grolier Club
Harvard University, Houghton Library
The Huntington
Indiana University Bloomington, Lilly Library
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Library
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library
New York Academy of Medicine
New York Public Library
New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
The Ohio State University
Oberlin College, Oberlin College Library Special Collections
Princeton University
Providence Public Library
Rutgers University, New Brunswick Libraries
Smith College, Special Collections, Mortimer Rare Book Collection
Saint Louis University
San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library
Tufts University, Tisch Library Special Collections
University of California at Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
University of California at Riverside, Tomás Rivera Library, Special Collections & Archives
University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
University of Missouri, Ellis Library
University of Oregon, Special Collections & University Archives
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
University of Vermont, Silver Special Collections Library
The Walters Art Museum, Manuscripts and Rare Books
Welcome to Digital Scriptorium!
Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts dedicated to building an online national union catalog for manuscripts in US collections.
DS has also launched the beta version of the new DS Catalog. The addition of current DS Member Institution data has begun and will continue through 2023 and 2024. Recent data additions to the DS Catalog include:
We are also currently processing data contributions from Princeton University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Boston Public Library, and the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin. More member institutions will be represented in the DS Catalog soon, dependent upon contribution of their data to DS in the coming weeks and months.
Use the DS Catalog to
- Access and research manuscript data across member institutions
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Member benefits include:
- Transformation of your structured manuscript metadata into Linked Open Data
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