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Category: Manuscript Research

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Fragmentology in the COVID-era Classroom

7 Jan 20227 Jan 2022
An important post with some shout-outs to SIMS projects VisColl and the Schoenberg Database.
BiblioPhilly…

Louis + Anne Forever

20 Mar 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 52/52 Illuminated Initial and Partial Border with Emblems of Anne of Brittany and Louis XII, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis T 659, front…
BiblioPhilly…

Staring at the (Sistine) Ceiling

13 Mar 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 51/52 Attavante degli Attavanti, Historiated initial T from a Missal showing the Lamentation, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 25:9, front…
BiblioPhilly…

From Treviso to TEI: Sister Manuscripts from Montello?

6 Mar 202018 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 50/52    Ambrose of Milan, Hexameron, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 4, fol. 1r; Moral and didactic writings, Bethlehem, Lehigh University,…
BiblioPhilly…

Charles Thierry is his Name

28 Feb 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 49/52    Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia, MS 5, front cover and fol. 13r (miniature of…
BiblioPhilly…

A Noteworthy Genesis in a Parisian Bible

21 Feb 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 48/52    Bible, Swarthmore College, McCabe Library, BS75 1200z, fols. 1r and 4v Swarthmore College has only one Medieval manuscript in its collections,…
BiblioPhilly…

A Diamond in the Rough

14 Feb 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 47/52    Baptista Massa de Argenta, De fructibus vescendis (On Edible Fruits), Philadelphia, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, fol. 1r The detailed catalogue…
BiblioPhilly…

“This is our first original manuscript and is a prized possession.”

7 Feb 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 46/52 Pierre Mésenge, Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 13, fol. 1r The…
BiblioPhilly…

“Money without health is worse by half”

31 Jan 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 45/52    Book of Hours for the Use of Noyon, Newark (DE), University of Delaware, Morris Library, MSS 95, item 31, unnumbered flyleaf…
BiblioPhilly…

Pennsylvania Dutch

24 Jan 20203 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 44/52    South Netherlands Book of Hours (The Hawley Hours), Lancaster, Franklin & Marshall College, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Misc. Ms. 146, fol. 13r (with…

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Next up in our #SIMSseries for Ms. Codex 1566, the 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medieval #manuscript #parchment #illumination #nursing #breastfeeding #calendar #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Modesty is a virtue.
Our next #SIMSseries is for Ms. Codex 1566, a book of hours, use of Metz, written in Metz, France, between 1375 and 1399. It's very small, bound in modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp, decorated with small illuminated initials. #medieval #manuscript #illuminated #bookofhours #miniature #france #french #14thc #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our last entry for the #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astrological and mathematical manuscript, a closer look at a text page with marginal notes, and a front and back view of a #parchment repair through the middle of two diagrams. #medieval #manuscript #astronomy #science #historyofscience #mathematics #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll 591, folder 48, a leaf from a printed book of hours with illuminations added by hand. Printed in France, probably Paris, in the last decade of the 15th century. Text is from the Penitential Psalms. #medieval #manuscript #printed #15thc #illumination #psalms #bookofhours #fragment #leaf #paper #bookhistory #bookstagram #rarebook #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram

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Introducing the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

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Next up in our #SIMSseries for Ms. Codex 1566, the 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medieval #manuscript #parchment #illumination #nursing #breastfeeding #calendar #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Modesty is a virtue.
Our next #SIMSseries is for Ms. Codex 1566, a book of hours, use of Metz, written in Metz, France, between 1375 and 1399. It's very small, bound in modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp, decorated with small illuminated initials. #medieval #manuscript #illuminated #bookofhours #miniature #france #french #14thc #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our last entry for the #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astrological and mathematical manuscript, a closer look at a text page with marginal notes, and a front and back view of a #parchment repair through the middle of two diagrams. #medieval #manuscript #astronomy #science #historyofscience #mathematics #parchment #bookhistory #rarebook #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll 591, folder 48, a leaf from a printed book of hours with illuminations added by hand. Printed in France, probably Paris, in the last decade of the 15th century. Text is from the Penitential Psalms. #medieval #manuscript #printed #15thc #illumination #psalms #bookofhours #fragment #leaf #paper #bookhistory #bookstagram #rarebook #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram

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