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 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!! 😍).

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

JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

Wee Chaucer has been reading some exciting submissions on the culture and writing of late medieval Britain - and he's looking forward to seeing yours!* newchaucersociety.org/page/submiss... *submissions are usu. 9-15K words and may analyze texts in any language of late medieval Britain

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...

Saint Mary's College is hiring for a 2yr VAP in Global Anglophone Literature! I'm happy to answer any questions about working at SMC via DM. Please share widely! joblist.mla.org/job/2000469/...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Calling all Folklore people! Come be my colleague! If anyone knows of people that might be interested, please share widely. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0260...

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

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

The team is chugging right along with this! We currently have almost 300 items plus another 20 or so contributed via this form. Please submit if you have published something or know of publications and useful resources about LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!

Since 1965, the NEH has awarded over $6 billion to support museums, historic sites, universities, teachers, libraries, documentary filmmakers, public TV and radio stations, research institutions, scholars, and local humanities programming. Now its funding is under threat. (1/5)

The recent cancellation of NEH funds has hit the wonderful resource that is the Medieval English Text Series (METS) @urochester.bsky.social, a free online resource that 1000s use for teaching & research. Please consider making a donation if you can, and please share! metseditions.org/donate

Just horrible news. The ODH has been such a catalyst for innovation since its inception. My thoughts go out to all those who work / have worked @neh-odh.bsky.social and provided such generous support to the academic community over the years.

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

This has been a journey. Thanks so much to everyone who made it possible, and couldn't be better timing if I do say so myself :-) Open access here: www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302. Also, we have discount codes use SUIP25 & get 30% off at www.press.uillinois.edu #dh #feministdh #digitalhumanities

Please read this post that my colleague and collaborator, the amazing @patriciaingham.bsky.social, wrote about our 2024–2027 NEH grant that was terminated by DOGE last week #medievalsky #humanitiesinitiatives (cc @altnehgov.bsky.social)

“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

An email is on its way out to our members regarding strategies for navigating cuts to federal grant funding. However, we wanted to share that information here as well. We have aggregated information for actions regarding NEH grants, which include broader strategies as well.

Received a notification of termination for my Humanities Connections grant last night. Heartbreaking. Had to let student workers go this morning and inform others that their research funding was canceled. Thank you, ACH, for supporting us all right now in this tumultuous moment @ach.bsky.social

ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

State humanities councils preserve local and regional histories, foster curiosity and civic-mindedness, and bring people together. We need to fight to preserve them.

URGENT: Take Action to Defend the NEH To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America: As a service to our members, we will occasionally share with you calls to action from organizations with whom we are affiliated. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/urgent-take-...

The NEH is one of the humanities few federal funding sources; it drives individual/institutional/community research/programming and provides economic stimulus to urban/rural areas in red/blue states alike. Reach out to your reps and instill in them the vitality of the NEH. p2a.co/Oi2HjiV?fbcl...

"You can't lead the people if you can't love the people." We're all with you, @booker.senate.gov

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

Love to get an email from my professional org @ach.bsky.social within hours of it surfacing that DOGE had come for NEH, with specific steps people can take, a form to collect info on research impacts, and a commitment to further advocacy. Keep it up, ACH. MLA, AHA & friends should take note.

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

I'm teaching at @rarebookschool.bsky.social this summer! Come to @sims-mss.bsky.social the first week in June to join me for five days of Digital Codicology & Book History. Course questions? Just ask! Ignore the February 17 deadline. Register at rarebookschool.org

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 #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

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

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

Massive #medievalsky manuscript find in the SBB-PKB: a copy of Ranulf Higden's 'Petagogicum'—a work hitherto presumed lost—produced near the time of its composition and perhaps under Ranulf's personal supervision (according to the article). Congrats to all involved! www.spkmagazin.de/2025/der-moe...

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

Hey all, @rarebookschool.bsky.social is here now.

Follow the Peripheral Manuscripts Project for highlights of items held in partners' collections that will be available through our repository (which will officially launch at the end of this month!!).

We've landed on BlueSky! (A Chaucer finger puppet "stands" before the front cover of SAC)

Such a fascinating thread!

Now accepting applications for research residencies to be completed at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, between July 1 & December 31, 2025: hmml.org/research/fel... Access offline archival & microfilm collections and 50,000+ books on topics related to manuscripts, printed books, art, and liturgy.

[Please Repost] Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is Hannah Busch from CCeH at the University of Cologne who will talk to us about "Matching Medieval Manuscripts with Machine Learning". research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at... Wed 19 February 2025 at 4pm UK time. (Zoom link will be sent to all registered.)

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.

Interested in Middle English writing, books, and attending the 2026 New Chaucer Society Congress in Freiburg, Germany? Why not propose a session for our thread on the Social Lives of Medieval Books? Proposals are due 17 Jan aka this Friday. Details here: cdn.ymaws.com/newchaucerso...

This summer @videntesmsi.bsky.social in collaboration with the UCCS Digital Humanities Center will be hosting an @nehgov.bsky.social digital humanities advanced institute on accessible and low-cost multispectral imaging. Applications are now open. grants.uccs.edu/illuminating...

Calling all manuscript scholars on the look-out for a job and who want a late Christmas present themselves, here it is: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

Do you have a leaf of this manuscript in your collection that we might not know about? DM me!