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Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 361: Astronomy, Astrology, Religion

25 May 202225 May 2022
On May 25, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 361, which is a sandwich containing commentaries on gospel and epistle readings nestled between two layers of astronomical and astrological tables.…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1136: Medicine & Magic of Women

19 May 202219 May 2022
On May 18, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1136, 15th c. German copy of De secretis mulierum (also known as Secreta mulierum), a work erroneously attributed to Albertus…
Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 347: Consolation of Philosophy

11 May 202211 May 2022
On May 11, Dot Porter brought out LJS 347, an incomplete and heavily glossed 14th century English copy of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most enduring and influential…
Coffee With A Codex

Ms. Coll. 728, folder 23: Theology

11 May 2022
On April 27 Kathryn Phipps, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies, brought out Ms. Coll. 728, folder 23, a highly calligraphic document (Escrito curioso) consisting of a short theological treatise in…
Coffee With A Codex…

U. Glasgow MS Hunter 231: Devotion and Philosophy

3 May 20223 May 2022
On April 20, Dot Porter hosted Coffee With A Codex from the Reading Room of the University of Glasgow Libraries Special Collections Department. She featured MS Hunter 231, a heavily…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1958: Correspondence

15 Apr 202211 May 2022
On April 13, SIMS Graduate Fellow Hallie Swanson introduced us to Ms. Codex 1958, a composite codex of two works on Persian letter composition from nineteenth-century India. Ms. Codex 1958…
Coffee With A Codex

LJS 27: Arithmetic

6 Apr 202213 Apr 2022
On April 6, SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman brought out LJS 27, a 15th century Italian treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic. LJS 27 is a pedagogical treatise on…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1065: Fragility

30 Mar 2022
On March 30 we brought out out Ms. Codex 1065, a 13th century English Bible. We own a number of fragile manuscripts, but this is one of the best examples…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Coll. 591: Fragments!

23 Mar 202223 Mar 2022
Last year we did two CWAC events working through Ms. Coll 591, which is one of our collections of fragments and cuttings from manuscripts. This week we dipped back into…
Coffee With A Codex…

CAJS Rar ms 533: Prayer Book

16 Mar 202222 Mar 2022
On March 16 we stepped out to the Katz Center with cataloger Louis Meiselman to have a look at CAJS Rar Ms 533, a miniature manuscript of the order of…

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Next up in our #SIMSseries for Ms. Codex 1566, the 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medieval #manuscript #parchment #illumination #nursing #breastfeeding #calendar #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Modesty is a virtue.
Our next #SIMSseries is for Ms. Codex 1566, a book of hours, use of Metz, written in Metz, France, between 1375 and 1399. It's very small, bound in modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp, decorated with small illuminated initials. #medieval #manuscript #illuminated #bookofhours #miniature #france #french #14thc #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our last entry for the #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astrological and mathematical manuscript, a closer look at a text page with marginal notes, and a front and back view of a #parchment repair through the middle of two diagrams. #medieval #manuscript #astronomy #science #historyofscience #mathematics #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll 591, folder 48, a leaf from a printed book of hours with illuminations added by hand. Printed in France, probably Paris, in the last decade of the 15th century. Text is from the Penitential Psalms. #medieval #manuscript #printed #15thc #illumination #psalms #bookofhours #fragment #leaf #paper #bookhistory #bookstagram #rarebook #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram

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Next up in our #SIMSseries for Ms. Codex 1566, the 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medieval #manuscript #parchment #illumination #nursing #breastfeeding #calendar #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Modesty is a virtue.
Our next #SIMSseries is for Ms. Codex 1566, a book of hours, use of Metz, written in Metz, France, between 1375 and 1399. It's very small, bound in modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp, decorated with small illuminated initials. #medieval #manuscript #illuminated #bookofhours #miniature #france #french #14thc #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our last entry for the #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astrological and mathematical manuscript, a closer look at a text page with marginal notes, and a front and back view of a #parchment repair through the middle of two diagrams. #medieval #manuscript #astronomy #science #historyofscience #mathematics #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll 591, folder 48, a leaf from a printed book of hours with illuminations added by hand. Printed in France, probably Paris, in the last decade of the 15th century. Text is from the Penitential Psalms. #medieval #manuscript #printed #15thc #illumination #psalms #bookofhours #fragment #leaf #paper #bookhistory #bookstagram #rarebook #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram

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