Manuscripts and other cultural heritage materials have always been depicted in different ways to increase access and for analysis. The digital repository is one of a long line of representational frameworks, including printed woodcuts, painted facsimiles, black and white photographs and analog color images. Every format has its own strategies for truthfulness of representation and for signaling interpretive norms. This talk stems from work undertaken on the Medieval Fragments Study Collection at Stanford University Libraries. It follows the framing of the collection from physical folders holding the fragments, to finding aids, to the online catalog, analyzing how these remodalizations emphasize different aspects of the discourse of the archive with the help of concepts from social semiotics.