Uncategorized In the Reading Room with the Manuscripts of the Online Exhibit “A Liberal Arts Education for the (Middle) Ages: Texts, Translations, and Study.” 29 Jun 202028 Jun 2020 by Christine E. Bachman LJS 101, folio 1v-2r. As the 2019-2020 SIMS Graduate Student Research Fellow, I have spent the past several months sifting through the collections of the University…
Uncategorized SIMS hosts Advanced Imaging Data for Early Palimpsest from The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library 3 Jun 20203 Jun 2020 By Michael B. Toth, President of R.B. Toth Associates On May 18, 2020, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) began hosting image data on OPenn for its 48th data…
Uncategorized Mapping Manuscript Migrations: A New Linked Data Portal for Manuscript Provenance Research 11 Feb 202010 Feb 2020 by Emma Cawlfield Thomson The Mapping Manuscript Migrations portal publicly launched on January 30, 2020 at the Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference at the National Science Foundation in…
Uncategorized “Manuscript Country”: Landscapes of South Asian Manuscript Libraries 3 Sep 20196 Sep 2019 by Anthony Cerulli Palm-leaf and paper manuscripts have been produced and circulated in South Asian literary cultures for a long time, going back well before the turn of the Common…
Reblogged… Dispatch from the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project 31 Jul 2019 Kelly Tuttle, cataloger for the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project, has written a great post about Penn's Ms. Codex 1904 on the Special Collections Processing at Penn blog. Working…
Uncategorized And that’s how we roll… — Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis 11 Mar 2019 https://www.youtube.com/embed/xI0BnK1Dvpg Genealogical rolls showing the direct descent of English kings from Adam were a major (and blatant) propaganda tool during the Wars of the Roses in later fifteenth-century England. 332…
Uncategorized Making Iron Gall Ink 27 Sep 201827 Sep 2018 Many thanks to Sara Charles, an editor at the Institute of Historical Research and researcher of medieval manuscripts, for this guest post, which is based on a Twitter thread originally published…
Uncategorized… The “Genizah Scribes at Work”, a lecture by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 20 Jun 2018 “The Genizah Scribes at Work,” a lecture by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Professor of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris, was delivered April 25,…
Uncategorized… The 2017–2018 SIMS-Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Manuscript Studies lecture by Alessandro Guetta 6 Jun 2018 “‘No Longer Alien Residents’: Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance,” a lecture by Professor Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris. Delivered February 27, 2018,…
Manuscript Research… Adding to the story of Ms. Codex 615 25 Apr 2018 Last week we were delighted to receive an email from Dr. Christoph Egger of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung about Ms. Codex 615, a fourteenth-century manuscript from Bohemia of Alain…
