University of Chicago

The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection Project will produce a digital collection of 65 Greek, Syriac, Ethiopian, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts dating from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries. Created in many of the key production centers of Asia Minor, the Balkans, Armenia, and North Africa, these resources are seriously understudied because access is currently limited to individual, on-site consultation. The manuscripts are of great artistic and historical, significance and include examples of the Byzantine and Eastern schools of manuscript illumination. The digital collection project will allow, free to the public, comparative and cross-cultural textual and iconographic research through open source interfaces for searching, browsing, page turning, and zooming in and out of high-resolution images.