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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project
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Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜

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Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss
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December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
At the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum today on this whirlwind tour. LOOK AT THESE PIGS! French calendar leaf (November) from a book of hours (2021.41.55)

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December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
The best part of Fingernail vs Scribe is that everybody wins!
lizhebbard.bsky.social Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Dec 3
Okay one more delight: a new game I invented called “fingernail vs scribe”… 💅 📜

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December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
A GOAT SPINE! 🤩🐐

maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!

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December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰

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December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
In today’s episode of fingernail vs scribe, check out this TEENY TINY book of hours:

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December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Okay check out this fragment!!!! Painted later by… a genius? (Even if I’m not happy that they painted on the leaves I also kind of love these dudes in the bottom margin. Feelings are complex!)

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December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
The adventures continue! I’m at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art this morning! Brrrr ❄️ ❄️

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December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
This is what my face looks like when I see a manuscript and it is entirely out of my control. Apologies! 😬😍

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December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Also… sometimes you’re looking for a Beauvais Missal leaf and you find… other treasures on the monastery walls! 🤩🤩

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December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Hello 👋 from the Beauvais Missal leaf in Atchison, KS! I’m visiting the Sisters of Mount St Scholastica and their manuscripts today, as well as the mss from their neighbor, Benedictine College!!

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December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Okay one more delight: a new game I invented called “fingernail vs scribe”… 💅 📜

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December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Still at Nelson-Atkins and having entirely too much fun to stop and post (I’ll post more soon!) but couldn’t resist sharing these blue rubrics! Blubrics! 💙💙💙😍

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December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
This morning I am loving this choir book leaf which has, maybe?! I think?, guide marks that the music scribe added before entering notation 🥰 You can see these dark lines through the faded notation ink!

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December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
I’m at the Nelson-Atkins Museum this week for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Undeterred by the winter weather in Kansas City ❄️

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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Completely taken with this cadelle letter on an antiphonal leaf at Grinnell College. Look at those little dashes on the right!!! It’s so good!

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November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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)
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November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College!
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November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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… 😍😍😍

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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops!

Berea Art Collection 170.98

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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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

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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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!

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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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!

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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
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 🌟

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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM