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Manifests for the IIIF Workshop

This page gathers a sample of manifests which you can use during the IIIF workshop.

Manifests for a variety of media

A small sample from various institutions. Work in progress.

Medieval manuscripts

Paintings

Jan van Eyck, Madonna with Canon Joris van der Paele, 1436 (Groeningemuseum Brugge):
https://dam.museabrugge.be/iii...

Textiles

  • Embroidered altar frontal with the Visitation and the Virgin Annunciate; silk and metal thread; possibly made in England or Flanders, ca. 1500 (Victoria & Albert Museum T.37-1991): https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collect...
  • The Adoration of the Magi; tapestery; Tournai, ca. 1480-ca. 1500 (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, MAR.T.30-1912): https://api.fitz.ms/data-distr...

Sculptures

Attic Grave Stele: Woman Dying in Childbirth, Attica, ca. 330 BCE (Harvard Art Museums 1905.8): https://iiif.harvardartmuseums.org/manifests/object/219625

Incunabula

Coins

Golden coin, celtic, Picts, -300-00.. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Monnaies, médailles et antiques, 1985.930 (GAU-11546): https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b11293244g/manifest.json

Drawings

Engravings

Israel van Meckenem, Martin Schongauer, The Death of Mary, ca. 1455 - 1503 (Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, GDUT6328): https://apicollections.parismusees.paris.fr/iiif/160040797/manifest

Maps

Sixth Map of Asia, Rome, 1478 (Qatar National Library, 2702) https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/qnlhc/2702/manifest

Natural history

Printed ephemera

Decorative Arts

Decorative sword mounting, Heian period/12th century (Tokyo National Museum, F356): https://emuseum.nich.go.jp/iii...

Manifests pre-gothic palaeography

Examples of the most prominent pre-gothic bookhands in the Western Middle Ages. Compare them in Mirador, make an overview with Exhibit or use them in a blog post.

ROMAN SCRIPTS

Capitalis: quadrata/monumentalis

(Searching for a good example in IIIF...)

Capitalis: elegans

BAV, Vat. Lat. 3256 (f. 3v) https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3256/manifest.json

Capitalis: rustica

- BAV, Vat. Lat. 3867 (f. 3v) https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3867/manifest.json

- (Utrecht Psalter) Utrecht, UL, Ms. 32 https://objects.library.uu.nl/manifest/iiif/v2/1874-284427

Scriptura communis (Old Roman Cursive)

British Library, Papyrus 229 (recto) https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108260.0x000001/manifest.json

De bellis Macedonicis (Literary cursive)

British Library, Papyrus 745 (recto) https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973803.0x000001/manifest.json

Uncial

BAV, Vat. Lat. 3835 https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3835/manifest.json ; https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Vat.lat.3835

Half-Uncial

BAV, Vat. Lat. 3375 (f. 29v) https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3375/manifest.json

Mmmonk: UBG Ms. 246 ff. 97r-98v https://adore.ugent.be/IIIF/manifests/archive.ugent.be%3AC98E436C-003C-11E7-AD2E-55C9D43445F2

New roman cursive

British Library, Papyrus 447 (recto) https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468685.0x000001/manifest.json

PRE-CAROLINE SCRIPTS

Merovingian minuscule

  • Luxeuil minuscule

BnF Latin 9427 https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b84516388/manifest.json

  • Corbie (AB) minuscule

BnF Latin 11627 https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b8423829s/manifest.json

  • Corbie type Maurdramnus

Bibliothèques d'Amiens métropole. Ms. 6 https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b8452188r/manifest.json

  • Laon

BL Ad.. MS 31031 https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055996924.0x000001/manifest.json

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 334 https://dms-data.stanford.edu/data/manifests/Parker/ss642cs4199/manifest.json

Merovingian chancery script

Bruges, Public Library, Ms. 615 https://sharedcanvas.be/IIIF/manifests/B_OB_MS615

Lombardic minuscule

(Searching for a good example in IIIF...)

Beneventan minuscule

BAV Vat. Lat. 3313 https://digi.vatlib.it/iiif/MSS_Vat.lat.3313/manifest.json

Curialis (papal chancery)

BnF latin 8840 https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b10032465h/manifest.json

Rounded insular (insularis majuscula)

Dublin, Trinity College, Ms. 58 (Book of Kells) https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726/manifest

Pointed insular (insularis minuscula)

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, Ms. Junius 27 https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/b29ff397-89fd-44ad-ad28-e7db3896edc5.json

Visigothic minuscule

BnF, nouv. acq. lat., 2855 https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b8455926b/manifest.json

CAROLINE MINUSCULE

Mmmonk manuscripts:

Sources: Structure based on the course Historical Scripts and Cultures of Writing in the Middle Ages at Ghent University by Prof. Dr. Els De Paermentier. Examples retrieved from Latin Paleography From Antiquity to the Renaissance [by A. M. Piazzoni]; HMML School Latin Palaeography; Littera Visigothica [by Dr Ainoa Castro]; Medieval Writings [by Dr Dianne Tillotson]; A. Derolez, The palaeography of Gothic manuscript books; M. Brown, A guide to western historical scripts from antiquity to 1600.

Mmmonk Manuscripts Manifests

A selection of Mmmonk manuscripts. Also gathered in this virtual tour.

  • Plutarchus, Vitae parallelae, vertaling Franciscus Filelfus, Iohannes Tortellius, Lapus Florentinus, Guarinus Veronensis, Antonius Pacinus, Donatus Acciaiolus, Leonardus Aretinus, Franciscus Barbarus, part I
  • Aldelmi episcopi De laude virginitatis seu laude sanctorum. Coelii Sedulii Carmen pascale. Hieronymi Epistola.
  • Moralia Gregorii a primo libro usque ad undecimum exclusive [fenestra]
  • Vita sancti Gregorii in duabus personis, videlicet magistri et discipuli, metrice exarata [titel fenestra]
  • Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii glos.; Boethius, De consol. Phil. Glos.
  • Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
  • Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
  • Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
  • Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits mémorables
  • Iohannes Bocatius, Genealogia deorum gentilium
  • Kalendarium. Tabula Gerlandi. Compotus Balduini. Algorismus. Liber de spera Iohannis de Sacrobosco et Compotus eiusdem. Compositio quadrantis et vsus eius. Theorica planetarum. De motu octaue spere. Et tabula de motu accessus et recessus [titel fenestra]
  • Missale
  • Continentur hoc volumine Sermones aliquot sancti Augustini de verbis Domini et apostoli; item prima pars Historie scholastice Petri Comestoris [titel Carolus de Visch]
  • Magister Stephanus super quattuor libros Regum. Magister Nicholaus de Tornaco super Iudith et super Parabolas Salomonis et textus earum. Honorius super Cantica Canticorum [titel fenestra]