Due to preservation and conservation issues, manuscripts are normally kept in research libraries far from public gaze. On rare occasions, visitors can see these priceless objects, typically separated from them by a sealed case, with only a fixed double page spread visible from a manuscript that may contain hundreds of folios. This restricts the amount of knowledge offered by these books. This p...

This paper presents the Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts, which includesmanuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries that have been overlooked by scholars focused onprinted books from the same era. The Register attempts to address this gap in Slovenianmanuscript studies by describing these unknown and forgotten early modern manuscripts withfacsimiles, an index of b...

Three million ancient Arabic manuscripts are jealously preserved in libraries, in conservation institutions and in private homes. A non-consulted document is like a dead document—its fate is related to its consultation by users. The access to this kind of document is very difficult because of two main reasons: first, the fragile state of the manuscripts that make them easily degradable, necessa...