Monstrous Marginalia was created by Kathryn Sanford, an English PhD Student at the University of Miami, as her capstone project for the Spring 2023 Digital Humanities Practicum (MLL 744/ENG 613). Her professor for this course was Professor Susanna Allés-Torrent, to whom she would like to offer a great deal of thanks for her patience and support.
The collection items in Monstrous Marginalia were sourced from the British Library and the Bodleian Library’s digital collections of medieval manuscripts. Monstrous Marginalia was constructed bearing in mind the terms of reuse delineated by both the British Library and the Bodleian Library. The British Library’s Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts was kindly made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The Bodleian Library’s Collection of Western Medieval Manuscripts was kindly made available under a Creative Commons non-commercial license, with attribution (CC-BY-NC 4.0).
Monstrous Marginalia was built using Wax. Wax is a minimal computing (minicomp) project led by Marii Nyröp. The project is currently maintained by Marii Nyröp at New York University and Alex Gil at Columbia University Libraries. It uses open source libraries and frameworks including Jekyll, IIIF, OpenSeaDragon, Rake, and ElasticLunr. Wax builds upon work by Peter Binkley, David Newbury, and others.
For more on working with Wax, visit the documentation wiki.