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Jawi Transcription Project
This is a pilot project to experiment with crowd-sourced transcription of Malay manuscripts written in Jawi. The first manuscript is British Library Mss Malay B 9. With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse. The manuscript can also be...
BL 10027 Pisan Chronicle
13th-Century Pisan chronicle in the British Library, catalogue number 10027 http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002107827 Google map of places mentioned: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gk5dVHmEPcro0QEMTybTAwBCS0XKdLf8&usp=sharing
Deciphering Dickens
Charles Dickens left behind a remarkably complete record of his literary output, including not just handwritten drafts for most of the major novels but also marked-up page proofs, serial publications, illustrations, theatrical adaptations, and records of his own legendary performances from his...
Festival Book for Charles VI
First edition of a sumptuous festival book commemorating the inauguration of HRE Charles VI in 1717 as Count of Flanders, featuring an allegorical frontispiece and 6 large folding plates, including four engravings of the extravagant fireworks displays that followed the ceremony.
Humanist Manuscripts
A collection of 15th century Italian manuscripts, for collaborative transcription and translation projects.
Syair Mesa Gumitar
British Library Mss Add 12380 With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse. The manuscript can also be viewed fully digitised on the BL's site here:http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12380&index=0
Book Traces: Civil War Era Readers and Their Books in Virginia Libraries
The page images in this collection are from pre-1871 books owned by college and university libraries all around Virginia. Please help us by transcribing any handwritten annotations you find on the pages! We are interested in the "traces" that past readers of these books have left behind in the...
The International La Sfera Challenge
Welcome to La Sfera Challenge, a two-week competition pitting international teams of scholars against each other in a race to transcribe three different copies of one text, Goro Dati’s fifteenth-century geographic treatise, La Sfera. Team USA will work with the version housed at the Yale...
Farfel Research Notebooks
The Farfel Notebooks document each manuscript and printed leaf that Dr. Farfel acquired over the course of his many years of collecting. There are 13 notebooks total. Each is a simple lined spiral-bound notebook familiar to most students. Dr. Farfel began his first notebook with leaf #1....
Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie’s Bestiary
During the 2021 IUB Transcribathon (April 15-17, 2021), five teams will collaborate to transcribe a copy of Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie's early thirteenth-century Bestiary, which details the appearance and habits of a series of real and fantastical creatures, as well as moral lessons they...
Crusading Books
Texts related to books that went on crusade go here -- it begins with the Inventory of Count Eudes of Nevers, and may expand from there.
Bishop Hellmuth Library Catalogue
This is a hand written list of titles contained in Bishop Hellmuth's (1817-1901) personal library. It was purchased by Barnett in 1895, at the sale of the Bishop's library, as stated in Barnett's inscription in the book. Bishop Isaac Hellmuth was the Founder of Huron College, Hellmuth Boys'...
Barnett Accession Books
John Davis Barnett, a noted bibliophile and collector had an extensive personal collection of over 40,000 books, pamphlets and journals. He arranged by topic or subject within his accession volumes or catalogs capturing details about each individual item that included his accession number. ...
Katalog der Bibliothek des Herrn Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hildebrand (Manuscript Collection MISC 233)
Catalogue arranged according to subject headings. In German. Subjects include Old High German and Middle High German literature, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th century German literature, folk songs, legends, literary history, linguistics, grammar, dictionaries, history, geography, culture,...
Teaching Paleography 2022
This is a temporary collection for participants of the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course to play around with.
Saint Dunstan
This is the inaugural event of the Transcription Challenge Framework, led by Tristan B. Taylor. See below for copy-paste special characters.
A Digital Repatriation of a Lost archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)
Important note: Unless otherwise indicated, the hard-copies of the manuscripts in this collection are housed at the LILLY LIBRARY at Indiana University. If you are using any of the documents, please reference them appropriately. Description: This project seeks to repatriate books and...
Houghton Library
Home to Harvard’s rare books and manuscripts, literary and performing arts archives, and more: a destination for students, scholars, and the public.
Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution
This project is partially funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project. We have digitized nearly 5,000 pages of nineteenth-century Peruvian periodicals. The OCR on these is in need of correcting! Please help us to make clean OCRd PDFs widely available to interested researchers and...
who's who papers
A book of Korean military personnel recorded by the U.S. military in the 1950s.
Contzen Project Test
Our Mission is to create a Digital Transcription, Translation, and Commentary of Adam Contzen's Politicorum Libri Decem or Ten Books on Politics.
Merlin en prose
This project invites volunteers to collaboratively transcribe the Merlinian section (ff. 81v–101v) of Paris, BnF, fr. 344 (digitized here: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000109r), a 13th-century Arthurian manuscript written in Old French and recounting the legendary origins of Merlin...