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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

ICYMI: In the DS Blog, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Kelly Tuttle explores cross-cultural examples of rules, or layout features guiding scribes while writing on the page, across DS member collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2... Image: Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis O 171

A ruling board, a piece of pasteboard with strings tied onto it to make patterns for pressure line rules made by putting the ruling board under the sheet(s) to be written and pressing or rubbing to make an imprint of the lines. This one was used as a cover for Lewis O 171, a loose-leaf devotional manuscript housed at the Free Library of Philadelphia

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (aka "DS Jeopardy") Which former owner's previous holdings are represented by the subject and genre terms used to describe items in member institution collections depicted in this visualization? If you can decode a SPARQL query, this might help: tinyurl.com/25dqjf3e

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social blogs about new descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the California State Library soon making their way into the DS Catalog. digital-scriptorium.org/20250327-csl...

California State Library, Sutro Collection, M000120. Image Courtesy of California State Library Sutro Collection

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Did you know one of the most significant manuscript witnesses to the Canterbury Tales is in the DS Catalog? search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS9601 The "Ellesmere Chaucer" is so precious that it does not circulate, making DS an easy digital access point to view this piece of history!

Canterbury Tales, f. 10r (Knight's Tale), ca. 1400-1410, mssEL 26 C 9, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

And this visualization shows the flip side: languages in the DS Catalog and the materials used as writing surfaces in each of those linguistic traditions: tinyurl.com/2a2xgs22

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Interested in seeing the correlation between linguistic tradition and manuscript material in the DS Catalog? This tree map visualization shows which languages can be found on particular writing surfaces in DS member collections. For the SPARQL query, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2cxmypq6

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

New to the blog: What is a DS ID and how are manuscripts represented in the DS Catalog? digital-scriptorium.org/20250318-ide... And check out our previous blog posts here: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Did you know that the DS Catalog is powered by Wikibase technology? This is the same Linked Open Data software that Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open knowledge bases, runs on. You can even explore the "backend" Wikibase of the DS Catalog infrastructure: catalog.digital-scriptorium.org

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Time for a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (or "DS Jeopardy" as @lransom.bsky.social likes to call it!) Here's a simple visualization from our DS Wikibase Query Service. Which author in our DS data would produce the solution shown here? Hint: if you can read SPARQL, the query is here: tinyurl.com/2ybjm9ge

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

On our blog: our DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, @rosemccandless.bsky.social, investigates a medieval binding fragment as part of her work providing descriptive metadata services to member institutions. digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...

Williams College, Chapin Library, Inc M266 folio (back pastedown).

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

One of our most frequently viewed DS records is for Boston Public Library, MS f Med.101. This ms containing Christine de Pisan's Le livre des trois Vertus was copied in 1405, and is generally considered to be "the truest copy of the text, possibly created under the direction of the author herself."

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DS Catalog is constantly growing with new data and expanded holdings from global manuscript traditions. Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.

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Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Introducing a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! Here's a visualization that comes directly from our DS Catalog data using a Wikibase Query Service. Can you guess what these results might be showing? Hint: Below is a link to the original SPARQL query you can run to help you figure it out! tinyurl.com/2xm4c6uz

A visualization of SPARQL query results from the DS Catalog

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