BiblioPhilly… LJS 418: Martyrdom of Saint Blaise 2 Nov 202111 Nov 2021 Coffee With A Codex on Monday, November 1, featured LJS 418, a 13th century Italian account of the martyrdom of Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, followed by readings…
Parchment… Penn Parchment Project: Sampling Process 7 Oct 201322 Apr 2014 Since the summer, the University of Pennsylvania library has been taking samples of many of its manuscripts to send to the University of York for collagen analysis. By analyzing the…
Manuscript Research… Pergamena Presentations at SIMS 30 Sep 201322 Aug 2016 On September 11, 2013, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies welcomed Stephen Meyer from Pergamena parchment makers (http://www.pergamena.net/). The Meyer family has been making leather and parchment since the sixteenth…
Parchment… Manuscript Monday: Penn MS Codex 236 26 Aug 20133 Sep 2021 This week's entry for the Penn Parchment Project is MS Codex 236, thought to be from France, and dated to ca. 1235-1240. It is a Vulgate Bible, including prologues by…
Medieval… Manuscript Monday: LJS 204 19 Aug 201322 Apr 2014 The fourth entry for the Penn Parchment Project is LJS 204, an Italian manuscript dated from 1509. It is an introduction and compilation of astrological tables calculated for the Jewish…
Medieval… Manuscript Monday: Penn MS Codex 1329 12 Aug 201322 Apr 2014 The third entry for the Penn Parchment Project is MS Codex 1329, an Italian manuscript dated from between 1200 and about 1230. It is a commentary on the Song of…
Medieval… Manuscript Monday: Penn MS Codex 1065 5 Aug 201322 Apr 2014 The second entry for the Penn Parchment Project is MS Codex 1065, an English (perhaps?) Bible dated from between 1240 and 1250. To find out more about the manuscript, and…
Medieval… Manuscript Monday: Introducing the Penn Parchment Project 29 Jul 201322 Apr 2014 We are pleased to announce the Penn Parchment Project, a collaboration between SIMS and a team at the University of York Department of Archaeology. The team at York is working…