To enable the central scholarly activities of review and replication of previous work, digital resources must be available under appropriate licenses. Digital paleography depends ultimately on digital images of manuscripts, papyri or other documents, so these images must be licensed for scholarly reuse. While there are numerous collections of links to on-line images of manuscripts on the web, I know of no list that limits itself to images suitable for scholarly reuse. We are assembling a list of sources for openly-licensed images of manuscripts in this github repository.
Submit other sources for openly-licensed images! If you are a github user, you may directly edit a clone of the sources.csv table and submit a pull request. If you prefer, you may simply send an email to user nsmith at the email domain holycross.edu.
To identify sources for openly licensed images of manuscripts, it can be helpful to search within existing lists of images of manuscripts that do not include infomation about licensing. Some useful lists include: