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Manuscript images and their descriptions (IIIF manifests) are loaded by your browser directly from the libraries’ servers listed below. A page contacts only the servers of the manuscripts it shows. Each server receives your IP address, your browser’s user agent and the address of what is requested, as with any web request, and processes them as an independent controller under the library’s own privacy policy:

  • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: descriptions from api.digitale-sammlungen.de; images from api.digitale-sammlungen.de
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  • Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: descriptions from tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org; images from cdm21059.contentdm.oclc.org
  • Biblioteka Narodowa (Polona): descriptions from polona.pl; images from polona.pl
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  • British Library: descriptions from bl.digirati.io; images from bl.digirati.io
  • e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland: descriptions from www.e-codices.unifr.ch; images from media.e-codices.ch
  • Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge / Stanford Libraries: descriptions from purl.stanford.edu; images from stacks.stanford.edu
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz: descriptions from content.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de; images from content.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de, ngcs-chula.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
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  • cdm21059.contentdm.oclc.org, tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org: run by OCLC, Inc. (CONTENTdm), based in the United States, for Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
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