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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

And so many more treasures! All (okay, most…) to be captured by this bad boy. Stay tuned for more project updates, Really Good Manuscripts, and Midwestern adventures! #midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts #scanmaster

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’ll share some of the items to be contributed from Saint Meinrad, starting with this amazing Hebrew scroll: #midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dan from Saint Meinrad made our first delivery of manuscripts this morning for this second round of the project! It is always such a fun time to see items again, and to get excited about digitizing and describing them! #midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#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

A large leaf from a manuscript choir book with musical notation

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

Scraps of medieval manuscripts wrapped around the spine of a book

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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

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The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

👋 just over here scheming about manuscripts 😄

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