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Dr. Liz Hebbard
@lizhebbard.bsky.social
Medieval Occitan & French; vernacular lyric; music & text; history of the book; medieval book arts; binding fragmentology. PI of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.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

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 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
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 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
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking
September 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃

I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
PROCRAFTINATING (n): a word I coined for what I tend to do with my nervous energy and burned-out brain at the end of the year. Current mode involves designing tshirts for myself and maybe two other people on the planet #DHmakes #medievalsky

Fig. 1:
May 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy Easter from the Beinecke Lancelot (ms 229) 😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
April 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well well well… if it isn’t Otto Ege my old frenemy 👋

(Having the best time at Purdue so far!!) #medievalsky #medievalmss
April 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A perfect start to my time in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections: a little binding fragment!!! This strip of parchment comes from beautiful 12th-century missal with the Secreta visible on this line "Suscipe domine munera que pro filii tui" 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Up to no good… 🙃
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
The view from my office:
December 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Final presentation weather 👍
December 10, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Annual Messiah singalong, Part the First ❤️❤️🎶🎵 with the Bloomington Chamber Singers

#messiah #handelmessiah #messiahsingalong #tistheseason
December 8, 2024 at 8:15 PM
When you give a group of paleographers a manuscript puzzle… #medievalsky #schoenbergsymposium #simssymposium #medievalmss
November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM