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Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium (DS) is an educational consortium of American libraries with collections of pre-modern manuscripts, or manuscripts made in the tradition of books before printing.〔R. Clemens and T. Graham. (2007). ''Introduction to manuscript studies''. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; C. DeHamel. (2006). ''A history of illuminated manuscripts''. New York: Phaidon Press.〕 The DS database represents these manuscript collections in a web-based union catalog for teaching and scholarly research in medieval and Renaissance studies.〔(''Digital Scriptorium'' )〕 It provides access to illuminated and textual manuscripts through online cataloging records, supported by high resolution digital images, retrievable by various topic searches. The DS database is an open access resource that enables users to study rare and valuable materials of academic, research, and public libraries. It makes available collections that are often restricted from public access and includes not only famous masterpieces of book illumination but also understudied manuscripts that have been previously overlooked for publication or study.
==Background and membership==
Funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, DS at its inception in 1997 was a joint project of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley (under Prof. Charles Faulhaber) and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Columbia University (under Dr. Consuelo W. Dutschke). The plan was to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web catalog records and selected images from the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript collections. The decision in favor of sample images rather than the complete imaging of manuscripts was originally practical, but today DS includes some records with sample and some with complete imaging. Records with sample images offer various pathways of entrance to the growing corpus of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts now available online. Because of patterns of collecting in the 19th and early 20th century, moreover, many manuscripts in American collections comprise partial texts or detached single leaves.〔S. Hindman et al. (2001). ''Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age.'' Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.〕 Cataloging as many of these fragmentary works as possible increases the chance that some manuscripts could be reconstituted, if only virtually. Thus as a philosophical principle, DS includes large and small collections, complete bound books and single leaves.
Between 1999 and 2002, additional holdings from Huntington Library, the University of Texas, Austin, and the New York Public Library were incorporated, along with those of a number of smaller collections. The database has continued to grow and represents the collections of over thirty member institutions, including not only those with substantial repositories, such as Harvard University's Houghton Library, Yale University's Beinecke Library, and the University of Pennsylvania, but also libraries with few but rare works such as the Providence Public Library, which owns an unusual 15th century Bible (Wetmore Ms 1) in rebus format. As of September 2015 DS counts catalog records for 8,390 manuscripts and 47,624 digitized images.〔(For a complete list of participating institutions see the DS website )〕
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