A collaborative platform for digital manuscript studies
Access freely shared learning materials provided by teachers to support manuscript studies
Explore resourcesEnter manuscript metadata or browse the collection of descriptions contributed by users
Enter the data Browse the collectionWork with XML transcriptions side-by-side with facsimiles and live preview
View your transcription<MANO> is a digital platform designed to support the scholarly study, structured description, and transcription of manuscripts. Developed for academic research and teaching, it provides a workspace where users can create and share manuscript metadata, view transcriptions alongside facsimiles, and access teaching resources.
The Resources section gathers teaching materials in manuscript studies, TEI encoding, and digital editing practices, openly shared under Creative Commons licenses.
The Metadata Editor facilitates detailed documentation of a manuscript’s physical, historical, and codicological features - such as origin, provenance, script, dimensions and more - while offering download options for further analysis or archival purposes. Once metadata is finalized, the resulting JSON files can be contributed to the <MANO> GitHub repository. All records become part of the Metadata Collection, where community-contributed descriptions can be explored, searched, and filtered.
The Transcription Viewer supports TEI-XML transcriptions and provides a visual interface where users can view XML code, rendered text, and digitized manuscript facsimiles in a synchronized layout.
Through this combination of structured metadata management, collaborative sharing, transcription tools, and open educational resources, <MANO> serves as a practical tool for teaching, research, and the collaborative creation of digital scholarly resources.