Amey Hutchins – The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

BiblioPhilly…

Family Resemblances, Part 2

20 Sep 20193 Sep 2021

Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 26/52 A guest post by University of Pennsylvania Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian, Amey Hutchins Carta executoria, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E…

BiblioPhilly…

Family Resemblances, Part 1

13 Sep 20193 Sep 2021

Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 25/52 A guest post by University of Pennsylvania Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian, Amey Hutchins Carta executoria de hidalguia de Agustin de Yturbe, vezino…

Dispatch from the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project

Kelly Tuttle, cataloger for the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project, has written a great post about Penn's Ms. Codex 1904 on the Special Collections Processing at Penn blog. Working…

Manuscript Research…

Adding to the story of Ms. Codex 615

Last week we were delighted to receive an email from Dr. Christoph Egger of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung about Ms. Codex 615, a fourteenth-century manuscript from Bohemia of Alain…

Announcement…

Manuscripts Summer Course 2018

We're looking forward to the fourth annual offering of the SIMS manuscript skills summer course! Aimed at graduate students in medieval and Renaissance studies who want to use manuscripts in…

Manuscript Research…

New attribution for a 14th-century manuscript

Thanks to "The Arabic original of (ps.) Māshā’allāh’s Liber de orbe: its date and authorship" (British Journal for the History of Science 48.2 (June 2015), p. 321-352) by Taro Mimura,…

Manuscript Research…

Keeping the portal open: conserving Ms. Codex 197

14 Jan 201622 Aug 2016

At this moment the Penn Libraries are embarking on a search for a senior conservator and eagerly anticipating the September opening of a new, 3,500-square-foot conservation lab in the Kislak…

Manuscript Research…

Manuscript Studies in Action: RBS at SIMS

8 Sep 201522 Aug 2016

Kyle Ann Huskin, a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Rochester, spent a week in July at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as one of the students…

Manuscript Research…

Manuscript Road Trip: Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal

24 Mar 201522 Aug 2016

The latest Manuscript Road Trip post by SIMS friend Lisa Fagin Davis announces a new adventure in digital fragmentology.

Happy new (school) year! Why do the Middle Ages matter?

18 Sep 201418 Sep 2014

On Tuesday evening Penn medievalists and early modernists kicked off the new academic year with the annual Welcome Back reception and the first Penn Medieval Studies program of the year: …