The Peripheral Manuscripts Project

The Peripheral Manuscripts Project is a four-year project (2020-2024), hosted at Indiana University Bloomington, to digitize and create item-level metadata for 74 codices and 617 medieval manuscript fragments from twenty-two primarily non-R1 Midwestern institutions. The Indiana University Libraries is completing image capture for all of these items, and a research team of specialists at IU Bloomington, Loyola University Chicago, and Saint Mary’s College is creating detailed descriptions of each object. The project includes many items unrecorded in previous bibliographical surveys. All item descriptions and high-resolution, IIIF-compliant images will be made freely available through an IU LIbraries Digital Collection Services repository in late 2024.