The Peripheral Manuscripts Project
@peripheralmss.bsky.social
Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜
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Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
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Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
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Sharing these after the fact because I was super busy looking at all their cool stuff! First, this bible fragment with VERY GOOD penwork. I mean… 😍😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sharing these after the fact because I was super busy looking at all their cool stuff! First, this bible fragment with VERY GOOD penwork. I mean… 😍😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
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Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops!
Berea Art Collection 170.98
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments
Berea Art Collection 170.98
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops!
Berea Art Collection 170.98
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments
Berea Art Collection 170.98
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments
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This scribe did such a good job erasing a mistake that it proved difficult to add the correct words back in… 😬
Berea AC 170.9
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
Berea AC 170.9
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This scribe did such a good job erasing a mistake that it proved difficult to add the correct words back in… 😬
Berea AC 170.9
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
Berea AC 170.9
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
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Heads up, manuscript fans! I’m starting site visits for our second round of grant work and SO EXCITED. I’ll be sharing images of fun stuff I’m looking at that is part of our @peripheralmss.bsky.social project! Today I’m at Berea college Art Collection!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Heads up, manuscript fans! I’m starting site visits for our second round of grant work and SO EXCITED. I’ll be sharing images of fun stuff I’m looking at that is part of our @peripheralmss.bsky.social project! Today I’m at Berea college Art Collection!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss
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This music scribe REEEEALLY loved himself a climacus. He had to erase six of them on this one leaf (selection in the photos)! What was he up to?! 🤔 (MSS 400, XOPF 400/40-4)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #medievalmusic
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #medievalmusic
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This music scribe REEEEALLY loved himself a climacus. He had to erase six of them on this one leaf (selection in the photos)! What was he up to?! 🤔 (MSS 400, XOPF 400/40-4)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #medievalmusic
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #medievalmusic
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Another fun binding fragment (although the whole codex is in scope for this item!): a Syriac manuscript on paper, with binding material from another Syriac manuscript on paper! Inception!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Another fun binding fragment (although the whole codex is in scope for this item!): a Syriac manuscript on paper, with binding material from another Syriac manuscript on paper! Inception!
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
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Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
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Another site visit for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Today I’m at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) looking at a bunch of binding fragments to start (my favorite!! 😍).
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Another site visit for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Today I’m at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) looking at a bunch of binding fragments to start (my favorite!! 😍).
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Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...
Medieval Manuscripts at WashU - WashU Libraries
Tens of thousands of medieval manuscripts and documents have made their way from Europe to collections across North America. The Peripheral Manuscripts Project (2020-present) seeks to advance the stud...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...
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We love the Peripheral Manuscripts Project! Read Rose McCandless's blog post to find out more about how the PMP is working with Digital Scriptorium 👇
For this month’s blog, DS Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social considers the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, the missions of PMP and DS, and the value of smaller and Midwestern collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
July 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We love the Peripheral Manuscripts Project! Read Rose McCandless's blog post to find out more about how the PMP is working with Digital Scriptorium 👇
Thanks for this write up, @rosemccandless.bsky.social ! Happy to work alongside DS to make more North American manuscripts discoverable!! #medievalsky #skystorians #manuscripts
For this month’s blog, DS Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social considers the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, the missions of PMP and DS, and the value of smaller and Midwestern collections: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
July 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks for this write up, @rosemccandless.bsky.social ! Happy to work alongside DS to make more North American manuscripts discoverable!! #medievalsky #skystorians #manuscripts
This #ManuscriptMonday we have a fifteenth-century Dutch Book of Hours in the translation of Geert Grote! Full-page miniatures depict the Annunciation and souls in the bosom of Abraham (pictured here). Held at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss
March 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This #ManuscriptMonday we have a fifteenth-century Dutch Book of Hours in the translation of Geert Grote! Full-page miniatures depict the Annunciation and souls in the bosom of Abraham (pictured here). Held at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss
#FragmentFriday is here! This is a leaf from a 16th-century Spanish antiphonal, perhaps used in Seville. The responsory verses surviving on this fragment are for the feast day for Martin, Bishop of Tours. Held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss
March 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#FragmentFriday is here! This is a leaf from a 16th-century Spanish antiphonal, perhaps used in Seville. The responsory verses surviving on this fragment are for the feast day for Martin, Bishop of Tours. Held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Today
we have a leaf from a mid-fifteenth century French Book of Hours. The text comprises a section of the Office for the Dead. This leaf is held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalnss #midwestmss
we have a leaf from a mid-fifteenth century French Book of Hours. The text comprises a section of the Office for the Dead. This leaf is held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalnss #midwestmss
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Happy #ManuscriptMonday! Today
we have a leaf from a mid-fifteenth century French Book of Hours. The text comprises a section of the Office for the Dead. This leaf is held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalnss #midwestmss
we have a leaf from a mid-fifteenth century French Book of Hours. The text comprises a section of the Office for the Dead. This leaf is held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalnss #midwestmss
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Such pretty initials! And a chance for a little #paleography, since this is such a clear example of Southern Textualis.
March 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Such pretty initials! And a chance for a little #paleography, since this is such a clear example of Southern Textualis.
On this #FragmentFriday we have for your consideration a leaf from a fifteenth century Book of Hours. The text is a section of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the Dominican Rite. Held at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. 😍😍 #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
March 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
On this #FragmentFriday we have for your consideration a leaf from a fifteenth century Book of Hours. The text is a section of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the Dominican Rite. Held at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. 😍😍 #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
It’s a new week and we have a new #ManuscriptMonday! Pictured is a leaf from a 13th c French bible in an Otto Ege portfolio: Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 AD, Series B (HL 59). Held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
March 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s a new week and we have a new #ManuscriptMonday! Pictured is a leaf from a 13th c French bible in an Otto Ege portfolio: Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 AD, Series B (HL 59). Held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
It's #FragmentFriday! Today we have four small fragments from a late-13th/early-14th century Italian copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea used as spine linings in a copy of Chrysostom’s Tomus secundus operum. 😍😍😍
Held at Xavier University in Cincinatti, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
Held at Xavier University in Cincinatti, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's #FragmentFriday! Today we have four small fragments from a late-13th/early-14th century Italian copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea used as spine linings in a copy of Chrysostom’s Tomus secundus operum. 😍😍😍
Held at Xavier University in Cincinatti, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
Held at Xavier University in Cincinatti, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
Hello and happy #ManuscriptMonday (ish... 😬)! Pictured below is a fifteenth century German antiphonal. The volume opens with chants for vespers on Saint Nicholas's Day and ends with chants for the Sending Forth of the Apostles. Held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalmss
February 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Hello and happy #ManuscriptMonday (ish... 😬)! Pictured below is a fifteenth century German antiphonal. The volume opens with chants for vespers on Saint Nicholas's Day and ends with chants for the Sending Forth of the Apostles. Held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalmss
It's #FragmentFriday! Today we have a leaf from a late 14th or early 15th century French Book of Hours. The text comes from verses 12-22 of Psalm 101, one of the Seven Penitential Psalms.
This leaf is held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
This leaf is held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It's #FragmentFriday! Today we have a leaf from a late 14th or early 15th century French Book of Hours. The text comes from verses 12-22 of Psalm 101, one of the Seven Penitential Psalms.
This leaf is held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
This leaf is held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
#medievalsky #medievalmss
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Look at this gorgeous visualization of language representation in @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social! If you haven't explored the new-and-improved dataset, check it out here! digital-scriptorium.org
The DS Catalog is constantly growing with new data and expanded holdings from global manuscript traditions.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Look at this gorgeous visualization of language representation in @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social! If you haven't explored the new-and-improved dataset, check it out here! digital-scriptorium.org
This week’s #ManuscriptMonday features a leaf from an Italian antiphonal, likely produced during the second half of the fifteenth century and bearing antiphons and responsory verse. This leaf is a palimpsest, containing earlier music and text perpendicular to existing text. #medievalsky #medievalmss
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This week’s #ManuscriptMonday features a leaf from an Italian antiphonal, likely produced during the second half of the fifteenth century and bearing antiphons and responsory verse. This leaf is a palimpsest, containing earlier music and text perpendicular to existing text. #medievalsky #medievalmss
It’s our first #ManuscriptMonday. Follow along to learn about some items in the Peripheral Manuscripts Project’s digital repository! #medievalsky
February 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s our first #ManuscriptMonday. Follow along to learn about some items in the Peripheral Manuscripts Project’s digital repository! #medievalsky