OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:28 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual, by Mariano del Buono

Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual

Mariano del Buono · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 505 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 19:28 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.