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…
Coffee With A Codex… Ms. Codex 1630 & Ms. Codex 1629: Rhetoric 9 Mar 202214 Mar 2022 This week for Coffee With A Codex we pulled out Ms. Codex 1630, a 15th-century copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium, the earliest comprehensive Latin treatise on rhetoric, composed in the…
Coffee With A Codex… Ms. Codex 1053: Bible 3 Mar 2022 For this week's Coffee With A Codex we took a look at Ms. Codex 1053, a Bible in 2 volumes (Old and New Testament) with prologues, probably written in England…
Coffee With A Codex… LJS 195 & Ms. Codex 2074: Treating Illness 23 Feb 2022 On February 23 we brought out LJS 195, a 15th century German medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, alongside Ms. Codex 2074, a 15th century French collection…
Coffee With A Codex Ms. Codex 63 & Ms. Codex 188: Lope de Vega in manuscript 21 Feb 2022 On February 16 guest hosts John Pollack and Roger Chartier brought out two manuscripts from the library's MedRen collection, both autograph manuscripts by Spanish Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega.…
Coffee With A Codex… LJS 470 and LJS 471: Medicine & Magic 14 Feb 2022 On February 9 we brought out two manuscripts from the Schoenberg Collection, both Hebrew manuscripts written in Italy. The first one was LJS 470, a 16th century collection of medical…
Coffee With A Codex… Ms. Codex 1059: Canon Law 8 Feb 202214 Feb 2022 For today's Coffee With A Codex we took a look at Ms. Codex 1059, a compilation of canon law made by Raymond of Peñafort by order of Pope Gregory IX,…
Coffee With A Codex Forgeries 28 Jan 2022 For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 26, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman showed us several forgeries and reproductions from Kislak collections. LJS 102, ff. 1v-2r The first…
Coffee With A Codex… Ms. Codex 761: Cosmographies 19 Jan 202228 Jan 2022 For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, we took a look at Ms. Codex 761, an Italian collection of four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation, written…
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