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Historical Charters Research Platform
Scriptorium
Read the source. Verify the transcription. Explore the historical record.
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Research workflow
What can you do with Scriptorium?
Read and verify the transcription
Move between readable, diplomatic, RAW and confidence-aware views.
Understand the document
Study regests, translations and structured entities when available.
Search across archives
Find people, places, institutions and words across the corpus.
AI-assisted scholarship
Artificial intelligence reads. The source remains in control.
Scriptorium uses language and vision models to make large collections of historical charters searchable and readable. Every generated result remains connected to the scan, its uncertainty and the inherited archival record.
How the process worksData provenance
Built for verification, not blind trust
The interface keeps inherited catalogue evidence and AI-assisted interpretation visibly separate. Every transcription can be checked against the scan and traced back to its Monasterium record.
Source: Monasterium
Archival description, shelfmark, date, material and repository data.
AI-derivedTranscription, confidence, regest, translation and extracted entities.
Featured research case
Tracing John of Luxembourg across European archives
Scriptorium’s first research corpus prioritises records that may illuminate the reign, diplomacy and wider historical context of John of Luxembourg. Relevance ratings make the selection strategy transparent.
Read the research case“A machine-assisted reading becomes useful scholarship only when its evidence remains inspectable.”