Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1648 – Del esta[tu]to Toledano, i çierta apologia (Video Orientation) 17 Oct 202226 Sep 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1648, a statement before a representative of the Inquisition recanting preaching…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1646 – Estado astrologico 10 Oct 202226 Sep 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1646, the first part of a four-part poem in octaves on…
Uncategorized If Today Is Sunday, This Must Be 1798 4 Oct 2022 An interesting and relevant post from our Manuscripts Cataloger Amey Hutchins, over on the Unique at Penn blog!
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1645 – Technical treatise on the painting of miniatures 3 Oct 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1645, an 18th-century copy of a technical treatise on the painting…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 361 – [Astronomical and astrological tables] 26 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 361, Opening and closing sections of astronomical and astrological tables on either…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 347 – De consolatione philosophiae 19 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 347, a 14th-century English copy of Boethius' philosophical dialogue in five books…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 342 – [Copies of documents relating to water rights in Milan] 12 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 342, copies of 9 documents relating to the illicit use of water…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday LJS 322 – [Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb] 5 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 322, fragmented sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 312 – [ʻIr siḥon] 30 Aug 202230 Jun 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 312, a mathematical work on basic calculations, including business or…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1644 – Collegium chymica 22 Aug 202220 Jul 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1644, a chemical manuscript with instructions for preparing several…