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| University of California, Berkeley Digital Scriptorium |
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The Digital
Scriptorium is prototype image database and visual union catalog
of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. The project was started in
1996 by the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley,
and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library with the
support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The model was to be from
a scholar’s point of view interactive and expandable. Today
it holds over 8,000 color images collected by a collaboration of institutions
including University of California Berkeley and Columbia University
affiliated libraries, as well as the Union Theological Seminary in
New York, and the De Bellis Collection in California.
The purpose of the “Digital Scriptorium” is to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers. One advantage of this image database is that It provides public access to fragile materials otherwise available only within libraries. Learn more about the Digital Scriptorium by visiting the website. |