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Manuscript Monday: LJS 242 – Basis grammatice

31 May 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 242, Basis grammatice, by Guillaume Tardif. This manuscript was written…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…

24 May 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 236, by Arnaldus de Villanova. This manuscript, written in Italy,…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 235 – Kitāb al-Adwār

17 May 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 235, Kitāb al-Adwār, by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf Urmawī. This…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 384 – De philosophia mundi, by William of Conches

10 May 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 384, De philosophia mundi, by William of Conches. This manuscript…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 483 – Questions on Aristotle’s Physics

3 May 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 484, Questions on Aristotle's Physics. This manuscript was written in…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 392 – Taḥrīr al-majisti

26 Apr 20213 Sep 2021
Nicholas Herman, Curator of Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 392, Taḥrīr al-majisti, by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (1201-1274).…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 404 – Jawāmīʻ al-ʻulam

19 Apr 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 404, Jawāmīʻ al-ʻulam, by Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar.…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 188 – Ynstruction of the ephimeredes

12 Apr 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 188, Ynstruction of the ephimeredes. This manuscript was written in…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 38 – Prayers and commentary

5 Apr 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 38, Prayers and commentary. This manuscript was written in Turkey,…
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Manuscript Monday: LJS 226 – Certain astrological and astronomical figures

29 Mar 20213 Sep 2021
Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library's LJS 226, certain astrological and astronomical figures: cut out of a…

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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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