Next 3 days will be on From Skin to Script workshop with @crasshlive.bsky.social
Starting with dehairing soaked skins
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS
Starting with dehairing soaked skins
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS
September 29, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Next 3 days will be on From Skin to Script workshop with @crasshlive.bsky.social
Starting with dehairing soaked skins
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS
Starting with dehairing soaked skins
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS
Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
Job alert!
British Library seeks a
Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
DL 12 July
tinyurl.com/25fs9kun
#medievalMSS
British Library seeks a
Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
DL 12 July
tinyurl.com/25fs9kun
#medievalMSS
June 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Job alert!
British Library seeks a
Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
DL 12 July
tinyurl.com/25fs9kun
#medievalMSS
British Library seeks a
Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
DL 12 July
tinyurl.com/25fs9kun
#medievalMSS
Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions
#MedievalMSS
go.bsky.app/7EkwHVJ
#MedievalMSS
go.bsky.app/7EkwHVJ
November 29, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions
#MedievalMSS
go.bsky.app/7EkwHVJ
#MedievalMSS
go.bsky.app/7EkwHVJ
When you give a group of paleographers a manuscript puzzle… #medievalsky #schoenbergsymposium #simssymposium #medievalmss
November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
When you give a group of paleographers a manuscript puzzle… #medievalsky #schoenbergsymposium #simssymposium #medievalmss
A GOAT SPINE! 🤩🐐
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A GOAT SPINE! 🤩🐐
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
maybe it’s morbid, but these kind of physical material details can be important for piecing manuscripts back together!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
Our #medievalMSS have been online for over 15 years
Have we had any impact to the field? @stewartbrookes.bsky.social agrees with a resounding YES! www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
Have you used parker.stanford.edu/parker? We'd love it has influenced you!
#medievalSky
Have we had any impact to the field? @stewartbrookes.bsky.social agrees with a resounding YES! www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
Have you used parker.stanford.edu/parker? We'd love it has influenced you!
#medievalSky
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our #medievalMSS have been online for over 15 years
Have we had any impact to the field? @stewartbrookes.bsky.social agrees with a resounding YES! www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
Have you used parker.stanford.edu/parker? We'd love it has influenced you!
#medievalSky
Have we had any impact to the field? @stewartbrookes.bsky.social agrees with a resounding YES! www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
Have you used parker.stanford.edu/parker? We'd love it has influenced you!
#medievalSky
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)
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss @peripheralmss.bsky.social (Loras College)
July 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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)
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss @peripheralmss.bsky.social (Loras College)
Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss
Metadata for Discovery of Medieval Manuscripts Materials – The Peripheral Manuscripts Project
peripheralmss.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss
Three different knives for fleshing i.e. defleshing. Hard hard work.
Some holes did appear so more suturing in sight
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS #parchment
Some holes did appear so more suturing in sight
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS #parchment
September 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Three different knives for fleshing i.e. defleshing. Hard hard work.
Some holes did appear so more suturing in sight
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS #parchment
Some holes did appear so more suturing in sight
#Skin2Script #medievalMSS #parchment
Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Here is a very cool object: a volume with stacked paper boards that have come apart, revealing a manuscript fragment between the print waste! (Rare Books PA2317 .E7 1546). The manuscript leaf is from a psalter 🌟
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
Hello 👋 from the Beauvais Missal leaf in Atchison, KS! I’m visiting the Sisters of Mount St Scholastica and their manuscripts today, as well as the mss from their neighbor, Benedictine College!!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hello 👋 from the Beauvais Missal leaf in Atchison, KS! I’m visiting the Sisters of Mount St Scholastica and their manuscripts today, as well as the mss from their neighbor, Benedictine College!!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
Still in Cleveland! Having fun today with Arabic numerals in their historic forms! 😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
May 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Still in Cleveland! Having fun today with Arabic numerals in their historic forms! 😍😍
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts
Also… sometimes you’re looking for a Beauvais Missal leaf and you find… other treasures on the monastery walls! 🤩🤩
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Also… sometimes you’re looking for a Beauvais Missal leaf and you find… other treasures on the monastery walls! 🤩🤩
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
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
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
July 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.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
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
July 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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
#medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
VIRUS ALERT! Sheeppox virus found in our parchment! Luckily, it is the ancient kind, so no extra precautions needed 😅
What a multidisciplinary effort - congrats to everyone involved!
(Incidentally, the culprit MS is currently on display in our exhibition)
www.science.org/content/arti...
What a multidisciplinary effort - congrats to everyone involved!
(Incidentally, the culprit MS is currently on display in our exhibition)
www.science.org/content/arti...
Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
www.science.org
September 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Okay one more delight: a new game I invented called “fingernail vs scribe”… 💅 📜
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Okay one more delight: a new game I invented called “fingernail vs scribe”… 💅 📜
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
Completely taken with this cadelle letter on an antiphonal leaf at Grinnell College. Look at those little dashes on the right!!! It’s so good!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Completely taken with this cadelle letter on an antiphonal leaf at Grinnell College. Look at those little dashes on the right!!! It’s so good!
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
Still at Nelson-Atkins and having entirely too much fun to stop and post (I’ll post more soon!) but couldn’t resist sharing these blue rubrics! Blubrics! 💙💙💙😍
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Still at Nelson-Atkins and having entirely too much fun to stop and post (I’ll post more soon!) but couldn’t resist sharing these blue rubrics! Blubrics! 💙💙💙😍
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
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
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
Two monkeys
That's all
12thC Bestiary, now CCCC MS 22, f. 163r
tinyurl.com/yzjnpbdp
#MedievalMSS #Bestiary
That's all
12thC Bestiary, now CCCC MS 22, f. 163r
tinyurl.com/yzjnpbdp
#MedievalMSS #Bestiary
March 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Two monkeys
That's all
12thC Bestiary, now CCCC MS 22, f. 163r
tinyurl.com/yzjnpbdp
#MedievalMSS #Bestiary
That's all
12thC Bestiary, now CCCC MS 22, f. 163r
tinyurl.com/yzjnpbdp
#MedievalMSS #Bestiary
In today’s episode of fingernail vs scribe, check out this TEENY TINY book of hours:
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In today’s episode of fingernail vs scribe, check out this TEENY TINY book of hours:
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
@peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
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
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