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Category: Medieval

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…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Coll. 591: Fragments!

23 Mar 202223 Mar 2022
Last year we did two CWAC events working through Ms. Coll 591, which is one of our collections of fragments and cuttings from manuscripts. This week we dipped back into…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1630 & Ms. Codex 1629: Rhetoric

9 Mar 202214 Mar 2022
This week for Coffee With A Codex we pulled out Ms. Codex 1630, a 15th-century copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium, the earliest comprehensive Latin treatise on rhetoric, composed in the…
Coffee With A Codex…

Ms. Codex 1053: Bible

3 Mar 2022
For this week's Coffee With A Codex we took a look at Ms. Codex 1053, a Bible in 2 volumes (Old and New Testament) with prologues, probably written in England…
Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 195 & Ms. Codex 2074: Treating Illness

23 Feb 2022
On February 23 we brought out LJS 195, a 15th century German medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, alongside Ms. Codex 2074, a 15th century French collection…
Coffee With A Codex…

LJS 470 and LJS 471: Medicine & Magic

14 Feb 2022
On February 9 we brought out two manuscripts from the Schoenberg Collection, both Hebrew manuscripts written in Italy. The first one was LJS 470, a 16th century collection of medical…

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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

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