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

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

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

A very maker-medieval few days 😍😍 #makermedieval #medievalistmaker #medievalsky #naturalink #pokeberryink #dropspindle #spinningflax #marigoldflowers #marigoldink

@guildmedmak.bsky.social 👀

For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking

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

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

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Happy Easter from the Beinecke Lancelot (ms 229) 😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss

Well well well… if it isn’t Otto Ege my old frenemy 👋

(Having the best time at Purdue so far!!) #medievalsky #medievalmss

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

Up to no good… 🙃

The view from my office:

Final presentation weather 👍

Annual Messiah singalong, Part the First ❤️❤️🎶🎵 with the Bloomington Chamber Singers

#messiah #handelmessiah #messiahsingalong #tistheseason

When you give a group of paleographers a manuscript puzzle… #medievalsky #schoenbergsymposium #simssymposium #medievalmss