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  • AboutLearn about SIMS, its founders, and its staff
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  • ResourcesTools for studying manuscripts in the digital age
    • OPenn
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  • PublicationsOur journal, books, and other publications in print and online
    • Manuscript Studies Journal
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  • ProjectsInitiatives currently underway
  • FellowshipsOpportunities for students and scholars
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    • SIMS / Katz Center
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  • TeachingMake use of our expertise and collections in person or remotely
    • Manuscript Skills Summer Course
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    • Rare Book School Courses taught by SIMS Staff
    • Visiting Undergraduate and Graduate Classes
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      • Local Elementary School Class Visits
  • EventsLectures, workshops, and symposia, virtual and in person
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Category: Announcement

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Manuscripts Summer Course 2018

14 Mar 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…
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Reactions: Medieval/Modern

11 Nov 201611 Nov 2016
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Reactions: Medieval/Modern, the current exhibition in the Penn Library's Goldstein Family Gallery, located…
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CFP for Kalamazoo 2017: New Work on Manuscripts in Philadelphia: Looking towards the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Project

3 Aug 20163 Aug 2016
In 2015, a collaboration led by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and including 15 institutions was awarded $500K from the Council on Library and Information Resources…
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Call for Papers for the SIMS Manuscript Studies Journal

4 Feb 2016
We are seeking submissions for our journal, Manuscript Studies, for 2017 and beyond. The journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those…
Additions to OPenn…

OPenn: New Additions

18 Jan 201619 Jan 2016
Here is a list of the most recent new additions to OPenn (Shelfmark, Title, Date uploaded, Link to OPenn): Univ. of Penn Books & Manuscripts – 32 items Ms. Codex…
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Penn Libraries’ OPenn Manuscript Portal to Host the Country’s Largest Regional Collections of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

6 Jan 20163 Sep 2021
Philadelphia, PA, January 6th, 2016—The Penn Libraries is proud to announce their role as online host and one of the leaders in a partnership that will create the country’s largest…

Upcoming Events

  • Coffee with a Codex: Manipulus florum
    Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Grammar and Definitions
    Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Encyclopedia
    Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Logic
    Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Ethics
    Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]

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Today's #MicroMonday is a close-up of musical notes - called 'neumes' - written over a red staff on the last page of Ms. Codex 1248, a late 15th century Italian Liturgical miscellany likely written for a monastic teacher. #medieval #manuscript #music #liturgy #15thc #neumes #italy #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is LJS 502, a late 11th-early 12th century fragment of Saint Ambrose's De mysteriis in protogothic script. Trimmed and used in a binding, the text on the verso side has been damaged by the use of an adhesive. #medieval #fragment #leaf #11thc #12thc #saintambrose #bindingwaste #binding #protogothic
Our catalogue calls him "grotesque" but we think he's pretty cute 😍
Say hello to LJS 27, a pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals and problems illustrated with scenes from daily life. It was written by Pietro Paolo Muscarello, in Nola, Italy, in 1478. #medieval #manuscript #mathematics #historyofmathematics #illustration #arthistory #bookhistory #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our very own Oddish! This little guy is on f. 42 in LJS 419 - Erbario, aka an illustrated herbal, or book of plants, written in Italy in the 15th century.
Today's #MicroMonday is a wee corner of a penwork frame drawn around the Lord's Prayer on the last page of Ms. Codex 1248, a late 15th century Italian Liturgical miscellany likely written for a monastic teacher. #medieval #manuscript #bookhistory #bookstagram #penwork #illustration #illumination #decoration #italy #liturgy #librariesofinstagram

Recent Blog Posts

  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1629 – Commentaria ad Rehtoricam
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 311 – Medical Texts
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 304 – Dogale
  • Ms. Codex 109, LJS 442, and Ms. Codex 129: Munitions and Explosives

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  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1629 – Commentaria ad Rehtoricam
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 311 – Medical Texts
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 304 – Dogale
  • Ms. Codex 109, LJS 442, and Ms. Codex 129: Munitions and Explosives

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