The Peripheral Manuscripts Project

We love the Peripheral Manuscripts Project! Read Rose McCandless's blog post to find out more about how the PMP is working with Digital Scriptorium 👇

Thanks for this write up, @rosemccandless.bsky.social ! Happy to work alongside DS to make more North American manuscripts discoverable!! #medievalsky #skystorians #manuscripts

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

A large leaf from a manuscript choir book with musical notation

#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

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

Such pretty initials! And a chance for a little #paleography, since this is such a clear example of Southern Textualis.

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

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

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

Scraps of medieval manuscripts wrapped around the spine of a book

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

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

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

Look at this gorgeous visualization of language representation in @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social! If you haven't explored the new-and-improved dataset, check it out here! digital-scriptorium.org

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

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

It’s our first #ManuscriptMonday. Follow along to learn about some items in the Peripheral Manuscripts Project’s digital repository! #medievalsky

In the background, 8 electric candles of various sizes on a dark background, int he foreground, a book lies open on a foam book cradle, the light from the candles is reflected by the gold decorations on the open pages of the book.

A brief moment of quiet last Friday before our "Manuscripts by Candlelight" event in @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social (all candles electric, of course, no open flames near our books) - the reflection of warm light on gold a perfect way to end last week. (thanks @etreharne.bsky.social for co-hosting!)

Welcome @mdalmau.bsky.social to Bluesky! She's my collaborator (alongside the indomitable @lizhebbard.bsky.social) on the Peripheral MSS Project (@peripheralmss.bsky.social), an expert in DH, and a generally fabulous person.

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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.

The Peripheral MSS Project is sponsoring a session at the 60th Intl Congress on Medieval Studies, titled "Medieval Manuscripts in North America and Where to Find Them." Submit your proposal by Sept. 15, at this link:
icms.confex.com/icms/2025/pa...

The Peripheral MSS Project is sponsoring a session at the 60th Intl Congress on Medieval Studies, titled "Medieval Manuscripts in North America and Where to Find Them." Submit your proposal by Sept. 15, at icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6129

👋 just over here scheming about manuscripts 😄