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Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org

A ruling board, a piece of pasteboard with strings tied onto it to make patterns for pressure line rules made by putting the ruling board under the sheet(s) to be written and pressing or rubbing to make an imprint of the lines. This one was used as a cover for Lewis O 171, a loose-leaf devotional manuscript housed at the Free Library of Philadelphia

California State Library, Sutro Collection, M000120. Image Courtesy of California State Library Sutro Collection

Canterbury Tales, f. 10r (Knight's Tale), ca. 1400-1410, mssEL 26 C 9, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Williams College, Chapin Library, Inc M266 folio (back pastedown).

A visualization of SPARQL query results from the DS Catalog