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Dr. Liz Hebbard
@lizhebbard.bsky.social
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Medieval Occitan & French; vernacular lyric; music & text; history of the book; medieval book arts; binding fragmentology. PI of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social 📜
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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!

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November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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… 😍😍😍

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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Another @peripheralmss.bsky.social site visit to share with you, this time at Grinnell College!
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November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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!

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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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!! 😍).
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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

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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Completely charmed by the impatient decorator who put wet ink of facing-page initials against this page—whoops!

Berea Art Collection 170.98

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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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!

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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A very maker-medieval few days 😍😍 #makermedieval #medievalistmaker #medievalsky #naturalink #pokeberryink #dropspindle #spinningflax #marigoldflowers #marigoldink

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Two small bottles labeled Pokeberry, containing bright pink natural ink A twist of handspun linen yarn Marigold flowers on an enamel tray
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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For those following along, here is the “finished” version (for now… I’m not sure I’m really finished!) 💚 #medievalsky #skystorians #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux #medievalmaking
A red-on-white image of the Indiana University Sample Gates surrounded by trees and creatures in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry
September 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃

I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social
A digital drawing of an Indiana University landmark, the Sample Gates, in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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PROCRAFTINATING (n): a word I coined for what I tend to do with my nervous energy and burned-out brain at the end of the year. Current mode involves designing tshirts for myself and maybe two other people on the planet #DHmakes #medievalsky

Fig. 1:
May 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Happy Easter from the Beinecke Lancelot (ms 229) 😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
A medieval manuscript illumination featuring a human figure in a hooded cape who holds up a large egg while sitting on a pile of other eggs
April 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Well well well… if it isn’t Otto Ege my old frenemy 👋

(Having the best time at Purdue so far!!) #medievalsky #medievalmss
April 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A perfect start to my time in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections: a little binding fragment!!! This strip of parchment comes from beautiful 12th-century missal with the Secreta visible on this line "Suscipe domine munera que pro filii tui" 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #medievalsky #medievalmss
A strip of parchment visible in the back of a book binding with a line of text in Latin
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Up to no good… 🙃
A stack of green cloth bound volumes of Pliny’s Natural History
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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The view from my office:
Heavy fog over a green space with trees and a carillon nearly invisible in the mid distance
December 10, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Final presentation weather 👍
A foggy scene with trees along a walking path Fog over a stream Fog in front of a modern limestone building A view along a path with fog and trees missing their leaves
December 10, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Annual Messiah singalong, Part the First ❤️❤️🎶🎵 with the Bloomington Chamber Singers

#messiah #handelmessiah #messiahsingalong #tistheseason
December 8, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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When you give a group of paleographers a manuscript puzzle… #medievalsky #schoenbergsymposium #simssymposium #medievalmss
Five scholars gesture as they discuss an image of a fragmented medieval manuscript displayed on a screen
November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM