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Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1629 – Commentaria ad Rehtoricam

27 Jun 20226 Jun 2022
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1629, an early Renaissance commentary on most of the…
Manuscript Monday…

Manuscript Monday: LJS 311 – Medical Texts

20 Jun 20226 Jun 2022
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 311, a collection of two Arabic medical texts translated into…
Manuscript Monday…

Manuscript Monday: LJS 304 – Dogale

13 Jun 20226 Jun 2022
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 304, a dogale written in Venice, dated 6 March 1574.…
Manuscript Monday…

Manuscript Monday: LJS 308 – Edward III letter patent

6 Jun 20226 Jun 2022
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 308, a letter patent dated Gloucester, 16 August 1347, written…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1056: Illuminated Book of Hours

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022
On June 1, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1056, an illuminated book of hours written in Rouen, France. It was written ca. 1475, although the binding - leather…
Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 361: Astronomy, Astrology, Religion

25 May 202225 May 2022
On May 25, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 361, which is a sandwich containing commentaries on gospel and epistle readings nestled between two layers of astronomical and astrological tables.…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1136: Medicine & Magic of Women

19 May 202219 May 2022
On May 18, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1136, 15th c. German copy of De secretis mulierum (also known as Secreta mulierum), a work erroneously attributed to Albertus…
Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 347: Consolation of Philosophy

11 May 202211 May 2022
On May 11, Dot Porter brought out LJS 347, an incomplete and heavily glossed 14th century English copy of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most enduring and influential…
Coffee With A Codex…

U. Glasgow MS Hunter 231: Devotion and Philosophy

3 May 20223 May 2022
On April 20, Dot Porter hosted Coffee With A Codex from the Reading Room of the University of Glasgow Libraries Special Collections Department. She featured MS Hunter 231, a heavily…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1065: Fragility

30 Mar 2022
On March 30 we brought out out Ms. Codex 1065, a 13th century English Bible. We own a number of fragile manuscripts, but this is one of the best examples…

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Today's #MicroMonday is a close-up of musical notes - called 'neumes' - written over a red staff on the last page of Ms. Codex 1248, a late 15th century Italian Liturgical miscellany likely written for a monastic teacher. #medieval #manuscript #music #liturgy #15thc #neumes #italy #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Today's #FragmentFriday is LJS 502, a late 11th-early 12th century fragment of Saint Ambrose's De mysteriis in protogothic script. Trimmed and used in a binding, the text on the verso side has been damaged by the use of an adhesive. #medieval #fragment #leaf #11thc #12thc #saintambrose #bindingwaste #binding #protogothic
Our catalogue calls him "grotesque" but we think he's pretty cute 😍
Say hello to LJS 27, a pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals and problems illustrated with scenes from daily life. It was written by Pietro Paolo Muscarello, in Nola, Italy, in 1478. #medieval #manuscript #mathematics #historyofmathematics #illustration #arthistory #bookhistory #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram
Our very own Oddish! This little guy is on f. 42 in LJS 419 - Erbario, aka an illustrated herbal, or book of plants, written in Italy in the 15th century.
Today's #MicroMonday is a wee corner of a penwork frame drawn around the Lord's Prayer on the last page of Ms. Codex 1248, a late 15th century Italian Liturgical miscellany likely written for a monastic teacher. #medieval #manuscript #bookhistory #bookstagram #penwork #illustration #illumination #decoration #italy #liturgy #librariesofinstagram

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