This is an in-development version of Manicule. It not ready for general use.
Create a fork of this repository so you are able to add your own content.
Manicule does not require any external dependencies or libraries to operate, but it does require a local web server to be running. The simplest thing is to use the built-in Vite library to run a local development server:
npm install
to install Vite, then:
npm run dev
every time you want to work on your local copy of Manicule.
This app was built and designed by Liza Daly and Whitney Trettien, with support from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. We have also benefited from the input, generosity, and open data of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.
Our manicule icon comes from page 365 of the records of Christian Lehman, a notary who lived in Germantown and Philadelphia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is MS Codex 1713 at the University of Pennsylvania. Visit the pointing hand in its original habitat here.
Get in touch and let us know how you use it!