We at the Innovating Knowledge project (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam) have just released an updated version (v2.3.1) of our database of early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville. In April last year, we presented a beta version containing 461 manuscripts - now we can update this number to 492 manuscripts (and counting!). We hope that we will be able to beat the magic boundary of 500 codices soon. 

The database is accessible at: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/.

You can read more about the criteria for the inclusions of manuscripts, database's sources, functionality and plans at: https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=33.

We are particularly glad that most of the included manuscripts (375 to be more precise) have been digitized. The database has an integrated Mirador viewer that allows you to access, compare and work with approximately 300 manuscripts with IIIF manifests directly via its interface (just click on the IIIF logo under the manuscript image). We hope that we will be able to add more digitized manuscripts and manuscripts with IIIF manifests in the future to make this database a digital manuscript library as well.

For those who may be interested in reusing the data collected by the project, we are also releasing the complete datasheet underlying the database at our project's outputs page: https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=40.

We hope you will find this resource useful for your research and an inspiration for your own digital projects.

We are still in a short grace period, so if you note particularly nasty bugs (some of which we are aware of and currently fixing, like incorrect display of & in manuscript shelfmarks), errors, typos, or you think information could be added (such as to recent publications of yours on one or more of the featured manuscripts), we will be glad to hear from you.

Best wishes,