Individual scholars
Working on a dissertation, monograph, or edition. You need precise transcription, principled alignment, and publishable output, without enterprise-grade overhead or a five-day setup.
Studia Manuscripta
The critical-edition platform
for working scholars, across traditions.
Compare manuscripts in 10+ scripts. Align, annotate, and export publication-quality critical editions — entirely in your browser.
Free tier includes 3 projects, 100 OCR pages/month, and 500 MB of storage. No credit card.
studiamss.org/app/projects/john-1
SinPVVD§1 aligned
Sin
Sinaiticus
ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ
λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν,
P
Peshitta
ܒܪܫܝܬ ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ ܡܠܬܐ܂
ܘܗܘ ܡܠܬܐ ܐܝܬܘܗܝ ܗܘܐ
V
Vulgate
In principio erat Verbum,
et Verbum erat apud Deum,
VD
Van Dyck
في البدء كان الكلمة،
والكلمة كان عند الله،
John 1:1 across four witnesses — Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Arabic — aligned and ready to compare.
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Scripts at launch
- Latinum
- العربية
- Ἑλληνικά
- עברית
- ܣܘܪܝܝܐ
- ⲘⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲚ̄ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
- ግዕዝ
- فارسی
- عثمانلیجه
- Ænglisc
A workshop, not a toolchain.
Everything you need to take a manuscript witness from photograph to publishable critical edition, in one place, without stitching together six tools.
Multi-witness comparison
Stack and compare up to eight manuscript witnesses side by side, with synced scrolling and resizable panes.
OCR for 10+ scripts
Tesseract.js runs in your browser for Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Ethiopic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Old English.
Line-locked alignment
Anchor passages across witnesses with line locks. Cluster-based variant readings emerge automatically, in ECM and NA28 style.
Lexicon hover across traditions
Hover any word for Sefaria, Perseus, CAL, Sedra, Lane, Steingass, Bosworth-Toller, and more, with source attribution.
Publication-grade export
TEI Parallel Segmentation, LaTeX with reledmac, plaintext apparatus, JSON, CSV, sigla legend, and a stemma SVG ready for print.
AI image enhancement
Super-resolve damaged regions of your scans with Real-ESRGAN. Available on Pro.
Who this is for.
Digital humanities programmes
Teaching critical-edition methodology. Train students on TEI, supervise editions across cohorts, and hand back versions and apparatus that actually round-trip into print.
Libraries and institutions
Make your holdings legible. Future IIIF integration will bring your shelf-marks directly into editorial workflows, so editions cite back to your manifests, not screenshots.
From the scholars using it.
Real words from real editors are on the way as first-wave testers put the platform to work.
Simple pricing. No seats, no per-project fees.
A free tier you can do real work on, a single Pro plan for serious editing, and an institutional option for departments and libraries.
Free
Get a single edition project off the ground without commitment.
$0
- 3 projects
- 100 OCR pages / month
- 15 witnesses per project
- 500 MB storage
Pro
For scholars actively producing an edition.
$12/month
- 25 projects
- 500 OCR pages / month
- 30 witnesses per project
- 5 GB storage
- AI image enhancement
- Priority lexicon lookups
Institutional
For DH programmes, libraries, and research groups. Seat-based with shared projects.
Coming soon
- Custom seat counts
- Shared projects
- Invoicing & SSO (planned)
Email [email protected] to be on the early list.