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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

#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #fragment
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
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
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
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
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
"Stonhenges iuxta ambesbury in anglia sita"

Stonehenge pictured in full circle in a 14th-century chronicle 'Scala mundi' by Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278)

The ms, now CCCC MS 194, came to us with Matthew Parker's donation
See for yourself: tinyurl.com/36xbvf88
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Outline of Stonehenge in brown ink, standing on green ground: drawn with 14 upright and 14 horizontal stones. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 194, f. 57r
June 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Galloping to the weekend - have a great one!

Detail from the magnificent mid 12th-century Bury Bible, formerly of Bury St Edmunds Abbey,
now in the Parker Library as CCCC MS 2i, f. 1v
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A detail of a full page illumination: a golden circle surrounds a galloping centaur while holding a spear with a frindged flag and a green shield Decoration from the Bury Bible, now in the Parker Library as Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 2i, fol. 1v
June 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
tainonen.bsky.social
The coming Sunday is Pentecost a.k.a. Whitsunday, commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit

1390s artist in Avignon decorated a Book of Hours with the highlight moment; the MS is now in the Parker Library as CCCC MS 540, f. 159r
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Medieval manuscript page with two thirds page framed miniature of Pentecost set against a blue ground with gold stars. White dove representing the Holy Spirit spews red inspirational lines to each head gathered around a central figure dressed in blue robe lined in red. Scale of faces is off, with the people in the background having larger faces than the people in the foreground. There is a full border of gold, blue and pink ivy leaves with interlace at the corners. Ornamental initial of three lines with blue and pink ivy leaves. Corpus Christi College Cambridge, MS 540, folio 159r
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Medieval angel is up!

Our Research Fellow curated summer-25 display in the Parker Library on 'Ordinary Encounters: Practical Books of Medieval Pastoral Care'

Eventbrite tours organised once a week - book your place now!
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Full page drawing of a memory aid in a form of an angel coloured in red, blue, green, yellow and gold. Six wings marked in Latin as representing love of god, love of neighbour, purity of heart and of flesh, confession, and satisfaction; each wing has in additon five feathers that highlight different aspects of the main theme. Angel is framed in red and green decorative foliage wtih golden circles in the corners of the frame. The right edge of this image has one column of text in Latin from the next page. Image taken from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 66, p. 100 https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/canvas-939c88d0dd067774e49ce19ba676031b
May 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
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!
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May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
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
parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Getting very sinister - Holy Wednesday a.k.a. Spy Wednesday

The day of the traitor Judas who is drawn greedily stretching toward an offered pile of coins in our early 15th-century picture bible (Biblia Pauperum)

CCCC MS 164, f. 73r
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Drawing in an early 15th-century 'Biblia pauperum' of a group of five men, two in pointy hats, one of them caresses a lap-ful of coins held by another man without a hat. A fourth man in a double-pointed hat (similar to bishop's mitre) looks on. A fifth man, with only a head visible, witnesses it all from the back of the composition.
April 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
lizhebbard.bsky.social
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
lizhebbard.bsky.social
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
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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
peripheralmss.bsky.social
#FragmentFriday is here! This is a leaf from a 16th-century Spanish antiphonal, perhaps used in Seville. The responsory verses surviving on this fragment are for the feast day for Martin, Bishop of Tours. Held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss
A large leaf from a manuscript choir book with musical notation
March 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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
March 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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
March 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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.
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Scraps of medieval manuscripts wrapped around the spine of a book
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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.

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February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
peripheralmss.bsky.social
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
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
laceybonarhull.bsky.social
Another quality embrace from a manuscript at @walters_museum , this time from the Carrow Psalter

This manuscript was created in East Anglia in the mid-thirteenth century and used at the nunnery of Carrow near Norwich

@MedievalMss MS. W. 34, fol. 23r

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January 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
laceybonarhull.bsky.social
It's National Hugging Day! 🫂

To celebrate, here are a few examples of medieval hugs

First up we have a scene from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of a man and woman enjoying a rather close embrace

@MedievalMss (@walters_museum) MS W. 166, fol. 118r

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A thread of medieval manuscript images depicting hugs
January 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
medievalmcsheff.bsky.social
Are we still doing #shitmanicules? Or #kindofcutemanicules? Here are a few!

And if anyone knows about how to date manicules – I'm struck by the apparently frilly sleeves? – then pls let me know. Possibilities 1450s-1550s. This is Westminster Abbey Muniments Book 5, btw

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A manicule or ink drawing on a medieval manuscript of a pointing hand, pointing at a bit of Latin text (the word 'venella' or lane). It has a bunch of scribbles at the wrist that might be meant to denote frills at the bottom of the sleeve?? Similar to first image. Another manicule or ink drawing of a hand pointing with a VERY large pointer finger at a bit of Latin text (the word Beverley). There are scribbles again around the wrist. A rare double manicule (haha I don't know if it's actually rare): a larger hand with an outsized pointer finger pointing generally at the passage, and a smaller more delicate hand pointing at a single word (out of frame).
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
medievalmcsheff.bsky.social
Maybe I'm easily shocked (OK, so I am), but I can't get over how early 20th-c archivists wrote notes right onto medieval manuscripts: this is Westminster Abbey Muniments Bk 5; the hand here is the same as recorded a collation of the manuscript on the endpaper, dated 1915. #medievalsky #MedievalMSS
Manuscript page dating from about 1440, with lovely decorated capitals in blue with red filigree pattern; this is a table of contents for the rest of the manuscript. A twentieth-century hand has added, quite messily, pencil notations of which folios the specific entries can be found below.
December 10, 2024 at 2:58 PM