An entry point to the written heritage of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe, from the 8th to the 18th century.
A search engine of interoperable digitized manuscripts and rare books
Collaborative platform to manage and publish Biblissima authority data
Help for reading and learning classical languages, XML editing tools and environments
Expertise service around IIIF standards
The Biblissima portal brings together digital data on the history of the transmission of texts and their images from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in both East and West, in a wide variety of supports, languages and scripts. Read more
The portal aggregates data from 41 sources (databases, library catalogues, etc.).
Explore and visualise digitised images of illuminations and decoration from ancient manuscripts and printed books, from Antiquity to the 20th century.
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Biblissima+ builds a portal and authority files on ancient written cultures, and feeds an ecosystem of resources and tools developed and maintained by its partner teams.
Search engine for digitised and interoperable manuscripts and rare books available via IIIF
Collaborative platform to manage and publish the Biblissima+ authority files
Biblissima+ resources and tools produced by its founding teams, partner projects or the Portal team
Biblissima+ - Observatory of Written Cultures, from Clay to Print - is a primary research and service infrastructure built around areas of expertise involving, on a national scale, researchers, curators and engineers working on the study of ancient texts and their transmission throughout history.
Biblissima+ brings together 17 institutions, including several research teams working on texts from Antiquity to digital publishing, a private company and the French Ministry of Culture.
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