# Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Presentation API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-presentation-api/  
**Provider:** University of Manchester — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/  
**Base URL:** https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif  
**Documentation:** https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/

Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Presentation API is one of 5 APIs that [University of Manchester](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include IIIF, Library, Digital Collections, Manuscripts, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

IIIF Presentation API 2.1 over the University of Manchester Library's digitised manuscripts, archives and rare books. Serves sc:Manifest documents at /iiif/{documentId} and sc:Collection documents at /iiif/collection/{collectionId}. Verified live on 2026-08-19: MS-LATIN-00006 returned a 378 KB manifest of 398 canvases, the `latin` collection returned 61 manifests, and a negative probe on a real path shape returned a genuine 404. The host resolves to 130.88.101.74 inside the University's own JANET allocation — not a vendor CNAME — and every manifest is attributed to the University of Manchester Library. This is institution-engineered.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-manchester-iiif-presentation-api-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-schema.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-example.json
- **Documentation** — https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/about/
- **TermsOfService** — https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/terms/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Manchester APIs (4)

- [Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Image API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-image-api/)
- [Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/shibboleth-saml-idp/)
- [Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (REST + OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/pure-cris-tenancy/)
- [Figshare research data repository tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/figshare-tenancy/)

## Tags

IIIF, Library, Digital Collections, Manuscripts, Open Access, Cultural Heritage

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