The Peripheral Manuscripts Project was 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. Item descriptions and high-resolution, IIIF-compliant images are anow vailable open-access through an IU Libraries Digital Collection Services repository, now in beta as of November 2024.
22Partner Institutions
691Pre-1600 manuscript items
4.5years of collaboration