Announcements and News
- Subscribe to our new monthly newsletter
- Join us every Monday at 12:00PM EST for Coffee with a Codex (via Zoom; registration required)
- Attend the first in-person From the Kislak Stacks Curatorial Talk, entitled A Crucified Nun and an Amateur Iconographer: Denis Faucher’s Handbook for a Female Monastic (Ms. Codex 1620), given by SIMS curator Nicholas Herman, Friday, September 24, 2021, 12:00–1:00PM EST
- Attend the in-person Kislak Center New Acquisitions Showcase: While you were away…, featuring exciting new pre-modern manuscript acquisitions, Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:00–6:00PM EST (drop-in event)
- Sign up for our upcoming Online Lecture, Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History (Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Insititute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto) Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00–1:30PM EST (via Zoom)
- Register for Loss, the 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 17–19, 2021 (via Zoom)
- SIMS is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 Graduate Student Fellowship recipient: Hallie Swanson
Video Orientations
Major Initiatives:
- The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
- A twice-annual journal (Manuscript Studies)
- A digitized manuscript discovery platform (Penn in Hand)
- A digitized manuscript repository (OPenn)
- A regional digitization initiative (Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis)
- An annual symposium dedicated to Manuscript Studies
- A series of monthly virtual lectures
- A weekly encounter with a manuscript (Coffee with a Codex)
- Teaching and showcasing the collection
- Advocacy for Manuscript Studies and Open Data globally
Other Projects:
- Developing new research tools: Viscoll, BASIRA, DS 2.0 planning
- Enhancing the collection via new acquisitions and research
- Establishing partnerships with projects such as Fragmentarium and CULTIVATE MSS
Fifty-Two Discoveries from the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Project
