BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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,…
BiblioPhilly… 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),…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… 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…
BiblioPhilly… That’s a Bullarium 8 Nov 20193 Sep 2021 Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 33/52 Bullarium Augustinianum (Collection of Augustinian Bulls); University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 85, fol. 1r, with border here attributed to the workshop of…
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 