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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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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
#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
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
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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
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
These in situ beauties were also featured recently on the cover of the journal Manuscript Studies! In Volume 8, No. 2 (Fall 2023) you can find several articles about our project !

Happy reading! 📖
muse.jhu.edu/issue/50920
February 28, 2025 at 5:01 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
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 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
February 25, 2025 at 8:36 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
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 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
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Here is an in situ binding fragment of a notated 15th-century leaf. It includes parts of two hymns, one of which (Si bona suscepimus de manu domini mala) was sung during the celebration of the feast of Job. It is held at Goshen College’s Mennonite Historical Library in Goshen, Indiana. #medievalsky
February 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
👋 just over here scheming about manuscripts 😄
June 11, 2024 at 7:43 PM