Digital Scriptorium- Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
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Digital Scriptorium- Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Free Library of Philadelphia & Online
Before the age of print, manuscript books and documents were the lifeblood of premodern intellectual, religious, literary, and civil life. They circulated knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and values throughout the highly connected yet distinct book cultures of the premodern world. Today, even though performing a different role as artifacts of these times, the surviving witnesses of premodern manuscript cultures continue to move and nourish new lines of cultural, scientific, and scholarly inquiry. This year's topic takes the notion of circulation as a starting point to consider not only how manuscripts produced in various scribal cultures circulated information throughout the premodern world but also what the mechanisms were, and are, that have generated, shifted, and complicated the movement and circulation of the books themselves from the time of production to the present day.
This event will also mark the full implementation of the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog, developed by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in partnership with Digital Scriptorium The DS Catalog unites manuscript data from member organizations in a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform built on Wikibase, connecting researchers to manuscripts in North American collections and to the wider world of LOD research.