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Category: BiblioPhilly

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Kendall of Colchester’s Quaker Connection

17 Jan 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 43/52 Bible from Northern France, Haverford College, Quaker & Special Collections, 1250 J2.16.10, fol. 1r A thirteenth-century Parisian Bible, held until 2002 at…
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Italian with a French Accent (Part II): Attributing the Illuminations of Lewis E 207

10 Jan 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 42/52    Prayer Book, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 207, fol. 1r (miniature of the Presentation in the Temple); Gian Giacomo…
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Overlooked Texts, Overlooked Images (Part II): Mystery Engravings

3 Jan 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 41/52 A guest post by National Gallery of Art Associate Curator of Old Master Prints, Brooks Rich    Album of Engravings and Devotional…
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Overlooked Texts, Overlooked Images (Part I): An Erasmian Album

27 Dec 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 40/52    Album of Engravings and Devotional Texts by Erasmus, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Prudentius, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 179,…
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A Professor’s Personal Copy

20 Dec 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 39/52    Regiomontanus, Tabulae directionum et profectionum; University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 172, pp. 146–47 Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436–76),…
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Repainted Miniatures in the Frédéric Spitzer Hours

13 Dec 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 38/52    Book of Hours for the Use of Paris, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945-65–5, p. 351 and 363 (detail of retouched…
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Nau, Naulet, Noël: Part II (a fragment of the Chanson de la Grue)

6 Dec 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 37/52 Noels (Book of Christmas Carols in French), Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 211, fol. 5r (detail) Last week, we looked…
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Nau, Naulet, Noël: Part I (a poem by Olivier Maillard)

29 Nov 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 36/52 Noels (Book of Christmas Carols in French), Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 211, fols. 17v (detail). As the holiday season…
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Who was Michele Zopello?

22 Nov 201922 Feb 2022
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 35/52 Michele Zopello, Litterarum simulationis liber; University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 225, fol. 1r One of the masterpieces of the…
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Which Dr. Wickersham?

15 Nov 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 34/52    Antiphonal, Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia, MS 19, front cover and fol. 150v The Library Company of Philadelphia possesses a…

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Today's #YearOfHours is University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1056, book of hours, use of Rouen, produced in Rouen, France, ca. 1475 for a local woman. Link in bio. #BiblioPhilly #medieval #manuscript #bookofhours #illustration #illumination #prayer #france #bookhistory #arthistory #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
LJS 436 is a 14th-century copy of a late 13th-century Arabic manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance. Sections of the copy dated to different times, though signed by the same scribe, last date is Rajab 724 (July 1324) Link in bio #medieval #manuscript #arabic #mathematics #historyofmathematics #islamic #islamiclaw #law #inheritance #bookhistory #rarebooks #14thcentury #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FloraFriday is a page from LJS 62, an herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides, a Greek pharmacologist who wrote his De Re Medica in the first century CE. This text including the illustrations were translated and copied for over 1500 years. Link in bio #medieval #manuscript #herbal #plants #flowers #illustration #15thcentury #bookhistory #rarebooks
A centaur (Sagittarius?) is shooting... something that's been erased, in the bottom margin of f. 121v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible written in France. Link in bio #drollerydonnerstag #medieval #manuscript #bible #drollery #marginalia #illustration #illumination #france #13thcentury #parchment #bookhistory #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #YearOfHours is Philadelphia Museum of Art 1924‑19‑1, book of Hours, use of Paris, produced between 1460 and 1480. The seven large miniatures include two that feature the portrait of the female patron who had the book made. Link in bio. #BiblioPhilly #medieval #manuscript #bookofhours #parchment #illustration #illumination #15thcentury #france #paris #bookhistory #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
A new video facsimile! Ms. Codex 1640 is too tightly bound to be photographed in our studio, but we can take a video to give you a sense of the whole book. It's a 14th c. copy of Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus Florum, cover-to-cover, sped x20. Link to full video in YouTube in bio. #medieval #manuscript #video #youtube #facsimile #14thcentury #sermons #extracts #england #france #bookhistory #rarebooks

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