Welcome into the new virtual research environment!

Gateway to Written Cultural Heritage

What Is New in the Manuscriptorium World

Latest news, newly added content, events, and other novelties.

Medieval Manuscripts from the Museum of the Brno Region

Digitisation of four fifteenth-century manuscripts including collections of sermons, offices and prayers

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Lecture Notes from Courses of Josef Johann Steinmann in the Collections of the National Library of Technology

Digitisation of seven-volume lecture notes from courses of Josef Johann Steinmann, a chemist and professor at Prague technical school

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Manuscripts by Magdalena Dobromila Rettig from the Regional Museum in Litomyšl

Digitisation of four manuscripts by Magdalena Dobromila Rettig, comprising, among others, an autograph album, verses and transcriptions of personal correspondence

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From the Digital Library Treasures

Welcome to the world of rare manuscripts, early printed books, maps, and other historical documents.

Louka Gradual

Unique evidence of the development of book painting at the turn of the Late Gothic to the Early Renaissance periods

Velislav Bible

The most voluminous medieval picture book in Central Europe

Codex Manesse

The most comprehensive collection of ballads and epigrammatic poetry in Middle High German

What is Manuscriptorium?

Manuscriptorium is a virtual research environment providing access to infinite content and wide possibilities of using it.

EXTENSIVE LIBRARY

Our digital library provides catalogue records and complex digital documents from more than 220 (not only) European institutions.

OPEN CATALOGUE

FULL-TEXT EDITIONS

Manuscriptorium makes the content of digitised documents available through the editions of literary texts included in the library’s manuscripts, incunabula, and early printed books.

OPEN EDITIONS CATALOGUE

PERSONAL CONTENT

Our users can use sophisticated tools to create their own personal collections of selected documents, on-line presentations, and virtual exhibitions.

OPEN PERSONAL CONTENT

… AND MUCH MORE

Manuscriptorium prepares a variety of thematic content, such as virtual exhibitions, videos, educational materials, etc. View the overview here.

INSPIRATION

Service for content creators and administrators

We offer several unique services to the content creators and administrators of written cultural heritage.

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Trouble-free integration

We are very flexible in the ways of processing the content of our partner institutions. Our ability to process more or less standardised data formats and to provide support to various types of communication to transfer data facilitates our collaboration with content providers.

2

Europeana domain aggregator

Through our library, you can offer your own content to Europeana for Manuscriptorium was granted the domain aggregator status for written book culture. Moreover, as an active member of Europeana Aggregators Forum, we assist memory institutions throughout Europe in disseminating their content.

3

IIIF Communication support

Not only do we fully integrate the most important IIIF interface for facile exchange and dissemination of digitised content among systems and to end users, but also we mediate this functionality to partners who do not have their own IIIF repository.