The Friends of Digital Scriptorium

DS Friends contribute financially in support of our mission to provide cross-institutional digital access to our members’ collections of pre-modern manuscripts and enhance appreciation of historically significant but often understudied manuscript materials.

Digital Scriptorium gratefully acknowledges the support of these Friends:

Codices

  • The Elizabeth C. Teviotdale Foundation

Quires

  • Lynn Ransom

Bifolia

  • Lisa Fagin Davis
  • Regine Heberlein
  • Professor James H. Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose

Leaves

  • Debra Cashion
  • Barbara Shailor
  • William Stoneman

Initials

  • David de Lorenzo
  • Doug Emery
  • Janine Pollock
  • Susan M. Steuer
  • Vanessa Wilkie
  • Cherry Williams

Join the Friends Today!

To join the Friends of Digital Scriptorium, make a tax-deductible donation in any amount today. Donations up to $499 are recognized at the Initial level, donations of $500 and above will be recognized at the Leaf level, $1000 and above at the Bifolium level, $2500 and above at the Quire level, and $5000 and above at the Codex level. Checks, made payable to Digital Scriptorium, may also be sent to Lynn Ransom, Treasurer & Executive Director, Digital Scriptorium, c/o Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Donations to the Friends of Digital Scriptorium assure the future viability of the organization and maximize its charitable purpose. The sustainability of Digital Scriptorium depends on our Friends – we thank you for your support!.

Your contributions enable Digital Scriptorium to:

  • Promote best practices for manuscript description, discovery, and access in the digital age
  • Build and maintain an openly accessible, digital union catalog for global premodern manuscripts in North American collections based on linked open data technologies and practices
  • Facilitate research that provides answers, provokes questions, and invites collaboration
  • Create a community of scholars, librarians, curators, and other citizen-scholars for the purpose of sharing the scholarship and expertise of the collections curators, librarians, the academy, and cultural heritage communities
  • Support open access to works in the public domain
  • Support and facilitate the digitization of member institutions’ collections
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