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

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

Papers discussing regional efforts to describe, make public use of, or otherwise raise the profile of smaller, less well-researched collections are also welcome.

This session welcomes papers that: explore item(s) held at an institution that might be “off the beaten path”; reflect on the challenges / benefits of working within such collections; or think broadly about how such collections might complicate (or confirm) prior research.

Session Call: Recent digitization projects, blogs, and journal issues have increasingly drawn attention to the study of items in lesser-known collections of medieval manuscripts in North America.