Sharing and Citing
Linking to what you are reading
The address bar is always a working link to the edition on screen. As you switch editions from the header dropdown, the URL updates to match — so copying it never gives someone the edition you started from instead of the one you ended on.
A Viewer link carries exactly two parameters:
https://<viewer-host>/?iiif-content=<manifest>&edition=<id>edition is always written out, even when it is the manifest's first edition. That is deliberate: a citation that relies on the default would silently point somewhere else if the manifest ever gained an edition.
What a link does not carry
The URL records the edition, and nothing else about your session. It does not carry:
- the fragment you are on, or your zoom and position
- the current selection
- the display mode, layout, outlines, or labels
So a link opens the edition, not your view of it. To direct a colleague to a particular reading, cite the line — and send them a report link, whose line headings do have their own anchors:
https://<viewer-host>/report?iiif-content=<manifest>&edition=<id>#line-14Citing an edition
The information a citation needs is in the report masthead: the text, the edition title, the editor, and the reference — the short form (for example 22-2) that appears in every attestation label throughout the Viewer.
Cite the edition and its editor, not the Viewer. The Viewer is the display; the edition is the scholarship.
Reusing images
The manuscript images are served over IIIF and are governed by the rights statement of the institution that holds and digitised the manuscript, not by the Viewer or the edition. Those terms travel with the manifest — check them before reproducing an image, and address permission requests to the holding institution.
The edition itself — the readings, restorations, lemmatisation, and translation — is the editor's work and is cited as such.
Related
- Opening an Edition — how a link resolves.
- The Edition Report — the citable document form.