TEI manuscript catalogues

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This page is a location to record manuscript catalogues which use TEI as a source, preservation, or output format. Please feel free to add any others that you know of -- Perhaps inserting them alphabetically by name?


  • Name: Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE)
  • URL: http://dare.uni-koeln.de/
  • Is TEI Available? Yes
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: The Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE) collects and edits the works of the Andalusian Philosopher Averroes or Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Rušd, born in Cordoba in 1126, died in Marrakesh in 1198. DARE makes accessible online digital editions of Averroes's works, and images of all textual witnesses, including manuscripts, incunabula, and early prints. Averroes's writings and the scholarly literature are documented in a bibliographical database.
  • Notes on use of TEI: Bibliographically and structurally, the content of the digital library of Averroes works will be described on the basis of the established standard OAI/PMH and the texts are to be encoded in XML in accordance to the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI P5).
  • Name: FIHRIST
  • URL: http://www.fihrist.org.uk/
  • Is TEI Available? Yes -- TEI XML download of individual manuscript descriptions
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: The FIHRIST catalogue provides a searchable interface to TEI XML manuscript descriptions from some of the major manuscript collections in the UK. With the continuing contribution of manuscript records from UK libraries, Fihrist aims to become a union catalogue for manuscripts in Arabic script. Partners include: Bodleian Library - University of Oxford, British Library, Cambridge University Library, The Islamic Manuscript Association, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, SOAS - University of London, University of Birmingham, The John Rylands University Library - University of Manchester, Wellcome Library. See http://www.fihrist.org.uk/about for more information.
  • Notes on use of TEI: The FIHRIST Schema was a customisation for Islamic manuscripts based on the ENRICH TEI ODD customisation for western manuscript description created for the ENRICH project.
  • Name: Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (2003)
  • URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/huntington/toc.html
  • Is TEI Available? No
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: This static web segment translates the two-volume printed Guide to TEI-XML and thence to HTML. There is a simple search facility; users are encouraged also to consult the indexes of authors, scribes, artists, places, dates, and titles, which have been converted from print and linked. Since the project doesn't say: it was led by Consuelo Dutschke, with encoding and best-practices contributions by Sharon Goetz and XSL rendering by Liz Shaw.
  • Notes on use of TEI: HEHweb uses a customization of TEI P4 based upon MASTER and TEIMMSS drafts and discussions that were not yet final. Its use of <msDesc> and child elements follows the 1989 printed Huntington catalogue and is a recognizable early cousin of the P5 msDesc module.
  • Name: Manuscriptorium
  • URL: http://www.manuscriptorium.com
  • Is TEI Available? Yes
  • Description of Catalogue/Project:... creating a virtual research environment providing access to all existing digital documents in the sphere of historic book resources (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents). These historical resources, otherwise scattered in various digital libraries around the world, are now available under a single digital library interface.
  • Notes on use of TEI: Uses the TEI P5 Enrich customization with some additional local constraints.


  • Name: Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts
  • URL: http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/
  • Is TEI Available? Yes
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: The web portal presents Slovenian manuscripts from the Baroque and Enlightenment periods. The on-line Register in open access comprises manuscript descriptions of the first 100 manuscripts, researched so far, and 7.000+ digital images. The system, based on Fedora Commons, enables browsing the manuscript descriptions and associated facsimiles, as well as complex searches over structured data, including taxonomies of text types and social contexts (monastic, diocesan, civil etc.) in which the manuscripts came into existence. Even as work in progress, the repository demonstrates the variety and longevity of manuscript culture in early modern period and its important role in Slovenian literature.
  • Notes on use of TEI: No modifications.
  • Name: Saramusik
  • URL: http://www.saramusik.org
  • Is TEI Available? No
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: SARAMusiK is an arabic catalogue project of known arabic manuscripts on Music. It is based on different paper catalogues. This catalogue is extented to include a critical edition of the texts.
  • Notes on use of TEI: The main data is filled using a php/mysql database. The body text of the critical edition is stored using the TEI format. All output is in a TEI format.
  • Name: Syriaca.org
  • Project Status: In development
  • URL: http://www.syriaca.org/
  • URL: https://github.com/srophe/manuscripts/
  • Is TEI Available? Yes -- TEI XML download of the whole repository on github.
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: Syriaca.org is currently in active development. We aim to provide TEI records for Syriac manuscripts and also to serialize our data through RDF using the RDF crosswalks of The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance. Our project is intentionally modeled after the very successul FIHRIST catalogue. We plan to eventually provide a similar searchable interface to TEI XML manuscript descriptions for multiple Syriac holdings at institutions around the world. We are currently actively cataloging the Syriac holdings of the British Library (using Wright's catalogue) and the holdings of American institutions (based on Clemons' checklist).
  • Notes on use of TEI: The Syriaca.org Schema is a customization for Syriac manuscripts based on the Fihrist Schema, which was itself a customization of ENRICH TEI ODD customisation for western manuscript description created for the ENRICH project.
  • Name: Manuscript database of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
  • URL: http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss
  • Is TEI Available? yes
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: Basically it shall have descriptions of all manuscripts of the HAB.
  • Notes on use of TEI: The mssDB differentiates between a socalled Signaturdokument (roughly: Shelfmark file) and catalogue(s). The Shelfmark file represents the manuscript itself, containing the most important bits of information on the ms only, <facsimile> and references to descriptions. The descriptions are representations of a (usually printed) catalogue in electronic form thus preserving the historical form and information of that very catalogue entry. We use an ODD based upon the ENRICH ODD, taking it further e.g. by offering value lists on several attributes. The ODD is available at http://diglib.hab.de/rules/schema/ER/v0.4/europeana-regia.xml
  • Name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
  • URL: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch
  • Is TEI Available? yes
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: The goal of e-codices is to provide access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts of Switzerland via a virtual library. It contains almost 1000 mss from 42 institutions.
  • Notes on use of TEI:
  • Name: Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • Project Status: in development
  • URL:
  • Is TEI Available? Yes -- TEI XML download of the whole repository on github
  • Description of Catalogue/Project: The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea (Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung) is a long-term project funded within the framework of the Academies' Programme (coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities) under survey of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg. The funding will be provided for 25 years, from 2016–2040. The project is hosted by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg. It aims at creating a virtual research environment that shall manage complex data related to predominantly Christian manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Highlands.
  • Notes on use of TEI: Project Guidelines Documentation


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