This presentation introduces the conceptual framework behind Biblia pauperum-Transcriptions, a browser-based viewer for manuscript transcriptions and digital facsimiles. This project has been under development by Ralf Möller, Stefan Thiemann, Malena Ratzke, and Hanna Wimmer, in the context of the research project Reframing Old Contents for New Readers in Late-Medieval German One-Volume Libraries (FNT08, formerly D09).

The research for this presentation was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 ‘Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’, project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.