Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 422 – [Haft paykar]. = [هفت پيکر]. (Video Orientation) 4 Mar 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 422, a lacunose 16th-century copy of a 12th-century romance about the life…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 421 – [Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar]. (Video Orientation) 26 Feb 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 421, a short collection of medical advice in prose, framed as sent…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 420 – [Perpetual calendar with Metonic cycle]. (Video Orientation) 19 Feb 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 420, a Liturgical calendar with some astronomical notes, such as indications of…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 417 – [Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]. (Video Orientation) 12 Feb 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 417, Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body),…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 416 – [Regulations for mills and bakeries]. (Video Orientation) 5 Feb 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 416, official copies of regulations pertaining to mills and bakeries in Rouen…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 412 – [Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy]. (Video Orientation) 29 Jan 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 412, four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy, the first and fourth treatise…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 411 – Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Ulugh Bēg. = شرح زيج الغ بيگ. (Video Orientation) 22 Jan 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 411, a commentary on the Zīj-i jadīd-i Sulṭānī, which comprised tables of…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 410 – al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah. = الملخص في الهيئة. (Video Orientation) 15 Jan 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 410, a commentary on Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jighmīnī's Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah -…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 409 – Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān… (Video Orientation) 8 Jan 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 409, two brief alchemical works written by a father for his son.…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 408 – [Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah]. (Video Orientation) 1 Jan 202410 May 2024 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 408, a commentary on the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah, written in the 12th…