The Friends of Digital Scriptorium

Friends contribute financially to support our mission to provide cross-institutional digital access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts and enhance access and 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!

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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.

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 invite 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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