Peripheral Manuscripts

The countdown is on! Four more days to submit your proposal!

Reminder! Submit proposals by Sept 15 to the PMSS-sponsored session at Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo on "Medieval Manuscripts in North America and Where to Find them"! We hope to see you there.

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/pape…

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.

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How does a collaborative, regional initiative with 22 partner institutions come into existence? Our project PIs recount the project’s early history and outcomes in an article recently published in the Journal of the Early Book Society 26 (2023). More here: peripheralmss.org/documenting-ou…

Excited to share that multiple project PIs and partners contributed to the most recent issue of Manuscript Studies, the open-access journal of the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies. Read more here: peripheralmss.org/manuscript-stu…

Back in the @IULillyLibrary measuring (okay mostly just reveling in starting at) some @peripheralmss fragments! Look at this GORGEOUS ligature 😍😍 (Ricketts B14)

Great poster @peripheralmss team! Thanks for writing it up in the blog post, too. My compliments to the team's persistence through all of these challenges. You all are awesome! #midwestmss

@mdalmau and Kara Alexander are presenting a poster today at #digHC on their digitization work for the Peripheral MSS Project so far! If you're around, check it out! If you're not, you can read a post on their work here: peripheralmss.org/blog/

New issue of Manuscripts on My Mind No. 37 September 2022 slu.edu/arts-and-scien… #openaccess @SLU_Official In memoriam Richard H. Rouse (1933–2022)

Items from @WoosterEdu @cowlibs brought over by our partner, Katie Farr, just arrived! So excited to open up these little gift wrapped treasures! @peripheralmss #midwestmss #medievalmss #pre1600manuscripts (here doing intake at @iulibraries with @mdalmau, Kara and Caitlyn)

Such interesting findings already in the @peripheralmss project. Excited to have @IL_Wesleyan collections @theameslibrary part of it all! #midwestmss

Interested in what types of items will eventually be in our project's digital repository (launching in 2024)? Check out our most recent blog post for an overview of what we know so far! #midwestmss #medievaltwitter peripheralmss.org/blog/

At @SaintMeinrad Archabbey today for the @peripheralmss project, and my host and I just stumbled across a Foliophiles “Pages from the Past” portfolio with dozens of items! I HAVE THE BEST JOB EVER 💚💚💚 #medievalmss #medievamanuscripts #brokenbooks #fragments #fragmentology

Another reminder that this roundtable also was recorded! Catch it for absolutely wonderful developments and finds coming out of @peripheralmss project and a lot of talk about data and metadata and cataloging! #fragments #fragmentology #manuscripts #Kzoo2022