The Peripheral Manuscripts Project is hosted at Indiana University Bloomington and was generously supported by a 2020 Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections grant and two grants from Indiana University: a Grant-in-Aid from the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and a Bridge Funding grant from the Office of the Vice President of Research. The project seeks to bring attention to important medieval manuscripts in the American Midwest using a consortium model that includes twenty-two institutional collaborators. By digitizing, describing, and hosting images and item descriptions of regional manuscripts together in one place, the project makes discoverable multiple collections that holding institutions are unable to digitize, describe, or host on their own. Altogether, these collections hold an enormous wealth of medieval manuscripts that our project seeks to showcase. Indiana University Libraries’ Digital Collection Services has scanned or photographed partner holdings, and researchers at IU Bloomington, Loyola University Chicago, and Saint Mary’s College have collaborated to create new descriptions or expand existing metadata for these objects. Project Directors for the 2020 CLIR grant were: Elizabeth K. Hebbard (PI) and Sarah L. Noonan, Michelle Dalmau, and Ian Cornelius (Co-PIs).
Subcollections (14)
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Xavier University Library University Archives and Special Collections Xavier University Library’s University Archives and Special Collections is the known holder of the follo... |
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Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections The Medieval manuscripts at the Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections consist of several codices and individual leaves. This collection is... |
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Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections Many of the items are from the Seymour Document Collection, donated to Knox College by George Seymour (1878-1945) and Flora Seymour (1888-1948). This collect... |
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College of Wooster Libraries Special Collections The College of Wooster Libraries Special Collections houses seven illuminated manuscripts circa 14th-15th century, including t... |
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Ohio Wesleyan University Libraries Special Collections The Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) Libraries’ Special Collections boasts a remarkable collection of medieval manuscripts, originally established through the ... |
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Illinois Wesleyan University Ames Library Tate Archives & Special Collections Tate Archives & Special Collections at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Ames Library holds 15 manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. These man... |
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The Medieval manuscript collection at the Muskegon Museum of Art consists of leaves from a variety of religious texts, including pages sold by dealer Otto Eg... |
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Northern Illinois University Special Collections and Archives Department The Medieval Manuscript Leaves collection at Northern Illinois University Libraries Special Collections and Archives (SCA) Department consists of ten manuscr... |
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Berea College Special Collections and Archives The collection of twelfth through eighteenth century manuscripts gathers Hutchins Library's oldest hand-... |
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Earlham Friends Collection and College Archives The Earlham Archives include books, periodicals, and manuscripts on Quakerism, Earlham College historical materials, and rare books belonging to Earlham Coll... |