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Category: The Rosenbach Library and Museum

BiblioPhilly…

The earliest known French bookstamp, and a new addition to the library of a colorful bibliophile: Jacques Thiboust of Bourges

3 May 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 6/52 Georges Chastellain, c. 1402/1410–1475, L'outré d’amour pour amour morte, Philadelphia, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 443/21, fol. 1r, with miniature showing…
BiblioPhilly…

The identification of a Spanish patron for a neglected Book of Hours

12 Apr 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 3/52 Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Bethlehem, PA, Lehigh University, Linderman Library, Codex 19, fol. 3r Lehigh University's small but excellent collection…
BiblioPhilly…

An unpublished, autograph booklet by Jean Lemaire de Belges, presented to the Queen of France on New Year’s day 1512

29 Mar 20193 Sep 2021
Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 1/52    Lemaire de Belges, Jean, 1473-1524 - Pronosticque historial de la félicité future de l'an mil cincq cens et douze, Philadelphia, The…

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Upcoming Events

  • SIMS Visiting Research Fellow's Lecture: Kate Rudy on "Dirty Books"
    Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 Time: 5:15pm - 6:30pm Location: Online Library: Van […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Secretum secretorum
    Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • Coffee with a Codex: Book of Hours
    Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023 Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm Location: Online Library: Other […]
  • SIMS Online Lecture Series: Personal Names and Authority
    Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Location: Online Library: Van […]
  • SIMS Online Lecture Series: Paleographical Approaches to Determining the Authenticity of Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts
    Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Location: Online Library: Van […]

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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

Recent Blog Posts

  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 381- Humanist copy of Sallust’s works on the history of Rome (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1656- Memorial [manuscript] (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 380- Pros mathēmatikous … [etc.] (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1655- Adversariorum pars prima. (Video Orientation)

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  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 381- Humanist copy of Sallust’s works on the history of Rome (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1656- Memorial [manuscript] (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: LJS 380- Pros mathēmatikous … [etc.] (Video Orientation)
  • Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1655- Adversariorum pars prima. (Video Orientation)

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