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.

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

# After installing Ruby
gem install bundler
bundle install

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

bundle exec jekyll build

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

bundle exec jekyll build --config _config.yml,_config.dev.yml

To continuously build the website on every change, run:

bundle exec jekyll serve

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

To deploy the built website, copy all the contents of the _site directory (or the _site_dev directory for a development build) to the directory that is served as the root of DigManClass (or DigManClass-d).

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.

Currently Leiden University Libraries reserve all rights.