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…
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…
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