Cleveland Public Library has some pretty okay books 😊 [091.9927 J339D3]

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

Best archival find of all time?

Still in Cleveland! Having fun today with Arabic numerals in their historic forms! 😍😍 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

When in Cleveland… 👀 #medievalsky #medievalmanuscripts #midwestmss #manuscripts @peripheralmss.bsky.social

Me when there are no MSs to play with #medievalsky

Me when there are MSs to play with #medievalsky

I mean… 😍😍😍

Emma gave a PHENOMENAL paper!

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

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.

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.

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!

3. somebody has gone and corrected the psalm tone, reinterpreting what mode they think the antiphon is in; and

2. there is a cute little D clef (in addition to more typical F and C clefs)

so this one is very fun because 1. green staff lines are fun but also

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!

So excited to see the second round of our project taking this important step!

Book of minutes

I was extra excited about this one (ssshhhh don’t tell the others!) #midwestmss #medievalsky #manuscripts

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

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

At the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum today on this whirlwind tour. LOOK AT THESE PIGS! French calendar leaf (November) from a book of hours (2021.41.55) @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

The best part of Fingernail vs Scribe is that everybody wins!

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

Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

In today’s episode of fingernail vs scribe, check out this TEENY TINY book of hours: @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

Okay check out this fragment!!!! Painted later by… a genius? (Even if I’m not happy that they painted on the leaves I also kind of love these dudes in the bottom margin. Feelings are complex!) @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

The adventures continue! I’m at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art this morning! Brrrr ❄️ ❄️ @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

This is what my face looks like when I see a manuscript and it is entirely out of my control. Apologies! 😬😍 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

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

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

Okay one more delight: a new game I invented called “fingernail vs scribe”… 💅 📜 @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

This morning I am loving this choir book leaf which has, maybe?! I think?, guide marks that the music scribe added before entering notation 🥰 You can see these dark lines through the faded notation ink! @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

I’m at the Nelson-Atkins Museum this week for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Undeterred by the winter weather in Kansas City ❄️ #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

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

Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College! #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

Sharing these after the fact because I was super busy looking at all their cool stuff! First, this bible fragment with VERY GOOD penwork. I mean… 😍😍😍 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops! Berea Art Collection 170.98 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragments

This scribe did such a good job erasing a mistake that it proved difficult to add the correct words back in… 😬 Berea AC 170.9 #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment

Heads up, manuscript fans! I’m starting site visits for our second round of grant work and SO EXCITED. I’ll be sharing images of fun stuff I’m looking at that is part of our @peripheralmss.bsky.social project! Today I’m at Berea college Art Collection! #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss

This music scribe REEEEALLY loved himself a climacus. He had to erase six of them on this one leaf (selection in the photos)! What was he up to?! 🤔 (MSS 400, XOPF 400/40-4) #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #medievalmusic

Another fun binding fragment (although the whole codex is in scope for this item!): a Syriac manuscript on paper, with binding material from another Syriac manuscript on paper! Inception! #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts

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

Another site visit for @peripheralmss.bsky.social! Today I’m at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) looking at a bunch of binding fragments to start (my favorite!! 😍).

Excited to be giving a talk about the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social at WashU later in the month! WashU is a round 2 partner, and we are thrilled to have them on board! library.washu.edu/events/medie...

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 👇