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. 15 shown for “Regiomontanus” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:35 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.
Astrolabe, by Regiomontanus

Astrolabe

Regiomontanus · 1462

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John Holybush)

Sphaera Mundi

Johannes de Sacrobosco (John Holybush) · 1485

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Oct 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy, by Paullus Schiller

Automaton clock in the form of Urania, Muse of Astronomy

Paullus Schiller · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/7/98

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Cyperus regiomontanus Britton

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1938 to 7 Jun 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astragalus regiomontanus Barneby

Astragalus regiomontanus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 21 matched · 21 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:35 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.