Q: Can you send me the suitable brands of scanners for scanning brittle, fragile, delicate documents like manuscripts?
A: The manuscripts could be scanned on a large flat-bed scanner. However, first make sure the bright light of the scanner will not damage the documents, as many old manuscripts are sensitive to bright light.. If light damage is a possibility, it would be better to photograph them. For further guidance on the best way to make images, you may wish to contact the Rare Book LIbrary at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, possibly the largest rare books collections in North America, as they would have people on staff who are highly skilled at making images of delicate manuscripts. People at the classics department at one of the major classics study centers, such as The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, The University of North Carolina, Yale University, or Harvard University all have top classics departments, and all have highly skilled technical staff who could give you good advice. The Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, has a one of the world's largest collections of classical art, but not a lot of manuscripts. The Getty Museum, in Los Angeles also has people highly skilled in what you want to do. If you will write or call one of these institutions, I'm sure there will be someone who would be happy to tell you as much as you need to know. If you are not lucky enough to live near one of these centers, there is probably someone at any truly major university or museum who can help you. If you're lucky enough to live near one of these centers, it might even be possible that they would help you or show you how to do it with their equipment.