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Sephardic Culinary Heritage: Conversation and Reception with Helene Jawhara Piñer and Mike Solomonov
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Back in October for #CoffeeWithACodex we looked at 12th century geometrical treatise LJS 194. Here's a highlight reel, focusing on the initials and diagrams.

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 434, which contains tables used in an astrological technique for determining auspicious times for carrying out various activities. Also includes geographical illustrations and diagrams and half of a horoscope diagram for a location in northern Afghanistan dated Friday, 27 Shawwāl 912 (12 March 1507)....

Meet our friend the bat, on page 11 of Ms. Codex 3, three volumes of paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. We don't know much about these books except that they were made in Japan, probably in the 19th century. If you know more, let us know! Record link in bio.

Highlight reel from LJS 24, a mid-13th century copy of the standard 13th-century medical curriculum (including text written in the 10th-13th c.), made in Paris and containing inhabited initials showing medical scenes. We know it was made for a community of Dominican friars, because the doctors in the initials are wearing the garb of the Dominicans. It was featured on #CoffeeWithACodex in January, 2023, you can watch the full 30-minute recording at the link in our bio.

#CoffeeWithACodex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 431, a list of 33 works; at least 13 entries include publication information such as city of publication, printer, or date of publication; publishers include Robert Estienne of Paris and Joannes Oporinus and Robert Winter of Basel; dates range from 1530 to 1543....

Recent Blog Posts

Manuscript Monday: LJS 434 – [Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt]. = [جداول اختيارات]. (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 431 – Manuscript list of manuscript and printed books (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 430 – [De urinarum judiciis]. (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 429 – Natural Philosophy (Video Orientation)

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Manuscript Monday: LJS 434 – [Jadāvil-i ikhtiyārāt]. = [جداول اختيارات]. (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 431 – Manuscript list of manuscript and printed books (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 430 – [De urinarum judiciis]. (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: LJS 429 – Natural Philosophy (Video Orientation)

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