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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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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Today’s first task: collating this little beast 😍😍 (cue the theme from 2001: ASpace Odyssey) - hand for scale

#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss @peripheralmss.bsky.social (Loras College)
July 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Playing my favorite game of fingernail vs scribe with this little ex situ binding fragment from Loras College. 🔍👀

#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
July 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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sarahloleet.bsky.social
What absolutely gorgeous initials in this 15th C Italian Psalter at Loras College @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medieval
July 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
This little 15c missal (still at Loras College) is full of cadelle letters inhabited by little men with distinctive chins and noses, all wearing hats. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
July 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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mdalmau.bsky.social
Love it when @sarahloleet.bsky.social & @lizhebbard.bsky.social do site visits together for @peripheralmss.bsky.social ! Hi, Heidi! Thanks, David!
lizhebbard.bsky.social Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · Jul 13
Our @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to Loras College is off to an incredible start!!! (feat. @sarahloleet.bsky.social and her incredible student David!)

#medievalsky #manuscripts #midwestmss #medievalmss #adventuresinspecialcollections
Sarah looks up from a very thick manuscript book on a wooden table Liz holds a large foam life size replica of the Rosetta Stone in the special collections room David seated at a table with laptop and early documents spread out, and Sarah stands behind their shoulder looking on An open manuscript book showing a page with a shiny gold-ground initial and leafy border decorations around two columns of text with blue and red capitals
July 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
From the Loras College collections, the *best* vine-bird-dragon of all time?! I think so, yes! 😍😍

@peripheralmss.bsky.social #medievalsky #midwestmss #medievalmss
A large nine-line Romanesque vine initial on a blue ground within a pale yellow square frame. On a red ground inside the letter A is the body of a bird facing left with a dragon head facing right, from whose mouth vines issue forth surrounding the creature
July 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Our @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to Loras College is off to an incredible start!!! (feat. @sarahloleet.bsky.social and her incredible student David!)

#medievalsky #manuscripts #midwestmss #medievalmss #adventuresinspecialcollections
Sarah looks up from a very thick manuscript book on a wooden table Liz holds a large foam life size replica of the Rosetta Stone in the special collections room David seated at a table with laptop and early documents spread out, and Sarah stands behind their shoulder looking on An open manuscript book showing a page with a shiny gold-ground initial and leafy border decorations around two columns of text with blue and red capitals
July 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Cleveland Public Library has some pretty okay books 😊 [091.9927 J339D3]
May 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Back for another round of Fingernail vs Scribe with this Ege leaf (FOL 9) of a teensy bible in the Cleveland PL portfolio! 😍😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
A closeup image of a parchment leaf with writing in black and decoration in red and blue A parchment leaf with writing in black and decoration in red and blue with a fingernail in the image showing 4-5 lines of tiny writing cover the same space vertically as the fingernail
May 18, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Best archival find of all time?
May 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Still in Cleveland! Having fun today with Arabic numerals in their historic forms! 😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
May 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
When in Cleveland… 👀
#medievalsky #medievalmanuscripts #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
May 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Me when there are no MSs to play with #medievalsky
May 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
Me when there are MSs to play with #medievalsky
May 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
I mean… 😍😍😍
The marble entryway of the library with high arched ceilings A colleague under a marble arch entrance labeled Exhibition Corridor — the John Griswold White Collection and a banner next to it reading “Special Collections” A large wooden table with brass lamps in the special collections reading room, with a card catalogue behind it
May 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Emma gave a PHENOMENAL paper!
helsinhashtags.bsky.social Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · May 14
First paper from Emma Gorman from IU Bloomington
May 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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lizhebbard.bsky.social
At the Cleveland Public Library today for another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit, this time with @sarahloleet.bsky.social !! Already enjoying this incredible space and excited to dig into their tasty manuscripts!!

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
The front entrance of the Cleveland Public Library
May 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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helsinhashtags.bsky.social
Thrilled to be at @kzooicms.bsky.social and attending a panel on medieval manuscripts in the midwest organized by the @peripheralmss.bsky.social Peripheral Manuscript Project. Honestly, what a dream start to the conference.
May 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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mdalmau.bsky.social
The @peripheralmss.bsky.social project had its first delivery of mss from Saint Meinrad Archabbey as part of our @nehgov.bsky.social HCRR grant. I'll leave it to @lizhebbard.bsky.social & @sarahloleet.bsky.social to provide a more substantive assessment, but ahhhhhh look at some of these beauties.
March 26, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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4. so far I've only found two other manuscripts with this "Felices sancte" antiphon, but their melodies are different from this one! very similar in shape though, as if it got transmuted through transposition in different traditions.
what a fun #fragmentfriday chant page!
"Felices sancte apostole" in F-Pn Latin 12044, an early 12th century antiphoner from St Maur-des-Fossés. The notes on Felices are C-DE-E, where the fragment has D-CD-D. also "Felices sancte", from F-Pn NAL 1535, an early 13th century antiphoner from Sens. The melody starts C-DE-E and is, but for a few notes, the same as that from St Maur des Fossés.
March 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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3. somebody has gone and corrected the psalm tone, reinterpreting what mode they think the antiphon is in; and
the ending of the same chant. above the letters SEUOUAE (indicating the end of the psalm, "seculorum amen" are both some small pitches, partially erased, in the style of the rest of the page, and some others in a later style, basically rectangular. (One set is for a Tone 2 psalm, the other is Tone 1).
March 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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2. there is a cute little D clef (in addition to more typical F and C clefs)
Close up the word "Felices" from a chant fragment. One staff line is red, indicating the pitch F; another two lines below is in green; and between them is a line seemingly labelled with a capital D.
March 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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so this one is very fun because 1. green staff lines are fun but also
peripheralmss.bsky.social The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social · Mar 13
This GORGEOUS music leaf. Look at that green!!! 💚💚💚

#midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts
March 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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sarahloleet.bsky.social
A lovely volume!! Saint Meinrad's has such a fantastic collection of medieval manuscripts. So happy to have them as a partner in our project for both our first and second round!
March 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM