Digital Manuscripts in the Classroom

Digital Manuscripts in the Classroom is a website that features digitised manuscripts from the Special Collections at Leiden University Libraries. The manuscripts are presented with contextual information and questions to let non-experts explore and learn about manuscript production and culture.

For more details, please see the colophon.

Install

This is a Jekyll website and requires Ruby and the bundler gem to be installed.

# After installing Ruby
gem install bundler
bundle install

Build

To build the website once, so that it can be deployed, run:

bundle exec jekyll build

To continuously build the website on every change, run:

bundle exec jekyll serve

And open the locally served page: http://localhost:4000/.

Deploy

To deploy the built website, copy all the contents of the _site directory to the directory that is served as the root of DigManClass.

Contributing

We are currently not looking for contributions. However, if you find mistakes in grammar, spelling or factual errors, we would welcome issues or pull requests that address them.

License

Currently Leiden University Libraries reserve all rights.