SIMS Social Media Posts

Includes links folks coming from Instagram and TikTok. Most of these are links to manuscript records on Franklin, which include full descriptions and in most cases link to a digital copy. Every week we also post registration information for our Thursday Noon Zoom call, Coffee With A Codex.

Starts on December 1, 2022. For records from earlier posts, you should search for the shelf mark (LJS xxx or MS. Codex xxx), in quotation marks, here.

6/4/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑14 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

6/3/2023 | LJS 463 | Medical and astrological miscellany

6/2/2023 | LJS 46 f. 39r | Red roots and red buds #FloraFriday

6/1/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, 169v | A singing birdy #DrolleryDonnerstag

5/31/2023 | Library Company of Philadelphia MS 5 | Book of hours, use of Rouen #YearOfHours

5/30/2023 | LJS 48 | Original Veronese calf over wooden boards #ToolingTuesday

5/29/2023 | LJS 384 | Treatise on astronomy, geography, meteorology, and medicine #MedicalMonday

5/28/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 99 | Book of hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

5/27/2023 | LJS 459 | Letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great (not really)

5/26/2023 | Ms. Codex 1056, f. 2v | Floral border in a Book of Hours #FloraFriday

5/25/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, 168r | A strange goose #DrolleryDonnerstag

5/24/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 214 | Book of Hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

5/23/2023 | Ms. Codex 98 | 15th-century French brown calfskin #ToolingTuesday

5/22/2023 | Ms. Codex 1203 | Sermons + medical recipes #MedicalMonday

5/21/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 127 | Book of Hours, Use of Soissons? #YearOfHours

5/20/2023 | LJS 454 | Japanese scroll about European ships

5/19/2023 | LJS 419, f. 4v | A bouquet of yellow #FloraFriday

5/18/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, 166r | A bunny stretches #DrolleryDonnerstag

5/17/2023 | Temple University (SPC) MSS 133 | Book of Hours, Use of Toul #YearOfHours

5/16/2023 | LJS 97 | 16th-century blind-stamped and roll-tooled tanned leather over wooden boards #ToolingTuesday

5/15/2023 | LJS 479 | A miscellany including a brief work on personal health and hygiene #MedicalMonday

5/14/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑15 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

5/13/2023 | LJS 435 | Portions of a treatise on surgery.

5/12/2023 | LJS 278, p. 2 | Red leaves and fuzzy roots #FloraFriday

5/11/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, 159v | A monkey throwing a spear #DrolleryDonnerstag

5/10/2023 | Ms. Codex 1566 | Book of hours, use of Metz #YearOfHours

5/9/2023 | LJS 443 | Blind-tooled calf with patterned fabric lining #ToolingTuesday

5/8/2023 | Ms. Coll. 591, Folder 21| Manuscript bifolia from Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus #MedicalMonday

5/7/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 110 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

5/6/2023 | LJS 437 | Medical compendium

5/5/2023 | LJS 46, f. 3v | Berries and blooms #FloraFriday

5/4/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 159v | A tooting bunny #drollerydonnerstag

5/3/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 131 | Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht #YearOfHours

5/1/2023 | LJS 398 | Arabic medical treatise in 50 chapters #MedicalMonday

4/30/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 128 | Book of Hours, Use of Tours #YearOfHours

4/29/2023 | LJS 425 | Persian treatise on music or melody

4/28/2023 | LJS 62, f. 9v | Scenes from an herbal #FloraFriday

4/27/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 156r | A pink griffin #drollerydonnerstag

4/26/2023 | Bryn Mawr College Library MS 25 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome (“Marquand Hours”) #YearOfHours

4/25/2023 | LJS 264 | 16th-century calf over boards, blind-stamped and -tooled, center armorial medallion of Benoît de Court #ToolingTuesday

4/24/2023 | LJS 464 | Arabic commentary on a treatise on mathematical operations

4/23/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑17 | Book of Hours, use of Rome (The Atalaya Hours) #YearOfHours

4/22/2023 | Ms. Codex 1089 | Financial records

4/21/2023 | LJS 46, f. 6v | A big red one #FloraFriday

4/20/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 156r | A winged serpent #drollerydonnerstag

4/19/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 212 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

4/18/2023 | LJS 467 | Later morocco, blind-tooled with central mandorla and double frame with knotted rope design #ToolingTuesday

4/17/2023 | LJS 463 | Medical and astronomical miscellany #MedicalMonday

4/16/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 108 | Book of Hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

4/15/2023 | LJS 443 | Armenian collection of texts on the calendar

4/14/2023 | Ms. Codex 1056, f. 3r | Flowers in the margins #FloraFriday

4/13/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 156r | A friendly gryphon (or is it griffin?) #drollerydonnerstag

4/12/2023 | Ms. Codex 738 | Book of Hours written in the northeast Netherlands #YearOfHours

4/11/2023 | LJS 268 | Blind-stamped central mandorla, with gold tooling #ToolingTuesday

4/10/2023 | LJS 422 | 16th-century copy of a 12th-century romance about the life of Bahrām Gūr

4/9/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 96 | Book of Hours, Use of Paris #YearOfHours

4/8/2023 | LJS 468 | Collection of prescriptions translated into Hebrew

4/7/2023 | LJS 447, f. 73r | Pretty flowers #FloraFriday

4/6/2023 | Halper 63 | Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Haftarot (Shabat Shuvah / Seventh day of Passover)

4/5/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 125 | Book of Hours, Use of Rouen #YearOfHours

4/4/2023 | LJS 439 | Modern morocco with earlier blind-tooled morocco covers laid on new covers #ToolingTuesday

4/3/2023 | LJS 437 | Medical compendium #MedicalMonday

4/2/2023 | Bryn Mawr College Library MS 27 | Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (“Streeter-Piccard Hours”) #YearOfHours

4/1/2023 | LJS 426 | First book of Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia

3/31/2023 | Ms. Codex 51, f. 1r | A foliated boarder #FloraFriday

3/30/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 152v | A dog playing bagpipes #drollerydonnerstag

3/29/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑10 | Book of Hours, use of Chartres #YearOfHours

3/28/2023 | LJS 405 | Modern binding incorporating 19th-century north African covers #ToolingTuesday

3/27/2023 | LJS 467 | Commonplace book written in England

3/26/2023 | Lehigh University Special Collection MS 17 | Book of Hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

3/25/2023 | LJS 439 | 14th-century copy of a 10th-century cosmological treatise

3/24/2023 | LJS 46, f. 30r | A suggestive fellow, labeled “Gerbia,” #FloraFriday

3/23/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 152v | A monkey archer #drollerydonnerstag

3/22/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 85 | Book of Hours, Use of Besançon? #YearOfHours

3/21/2023 | LJS 54 | 19th-century Italian gold-tooled diced leather #ToolingTuesday

3/20/2023 | Ms. Codex 823| A commonplace book written in England #MedicalMonday

3/19/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 118 | Book of Hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

3/18/2023 | LJS 462 | Didactic poem concerning integers and their operations

3/17/2023 | Ms. Codex 73, f. 1v | Flowers in the margin of a carta executoria #FloraFriday

3/16/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 150r | A bird looking over its shoulder #drollerydonnerstag

3/15/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 257 | Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht #YearOfHours

3/14/2023 | Ms. Codex 1008 | French 18th century marbled calf binding #ToolingTuesday

3/13/2023 | LJS 417 | Books III – V of Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia

3/12/2023 | Ms. Codex 681 | Book of Hours written in France #YearOfHours

3/11/2023 | Ms. Codex 1079 | A treatise on the cultivation of virtue and avoidance of sin

3/10/2023 | LJS 278, p. 8 | White and yellow flowers in a Persian herbal #FloraFriday

3/9/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 150r | A little creature #drollerydonnerstag

3/8/2023 | Philadelphia Art Museum 1967‑30‑122 | Book of Hours, Use of Paris #YearOfHours

3/7/2023 | 19th century book of hours | Unboxing video. No record link.

3/6/2023 | LJS 456 | Treatise on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine #MedicalMonday

3/5/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 95 | Book of Hours, Use of Paris #YearOfHours

3/4/2023 | LJS 455 | Two treatises on alchemy.

3/3/2023 | Ms. Codex 688, f. 13r | Colorful flower in a book of hours #YearOfHours #FloraFriday

3/2/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 146r | A flying bird #drollerydonnerstag

3/1/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 101 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

2/28/2023 | German calligraphy book | Unboxing video. No record link.

2/27/2023 | LJS 420 | Perpetual calendar with Metonic cycle

2/26/2023 | Lehigh University MS 15 | Book of hours, Franciscan use #YearOfHours

2/25/2023 | LJS 460 & LJS 37 | Two pieces of an Arabic abridgment of Euclid’s Elements

2/24/2023 | LJS 419, f. 8v | Pink flowers in an Italian herbal #FloraFriday

2/23/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 140r | A sniffing bunny #drollerydonnerstag

2/22/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑4 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome (Collins Hours) #YearOfHours

2/21/2023 | Psalter with all but one miniatures removed | Unboxing video. No record link.

2/20/2023 | LJS 449 | Medical and astronomical miscellany #MedicalMonday

2/19/2023 | Free Library Lewis E 93 | Book of hours, use of Paris #YearOfHours

2/18/2023 | Ms. Codex 1057 | 14th century Ferial Psalter

2/17/2023 | LJS 447, f. 60r | Flowers in an Arabic herbal #FloraFriday

2/16/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 142v | A diving bunny #drollerydonnerstag

2/15/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945‑65‑4 | Book of Hours, use of Rome (Collins Hours) #YearOfHours

2/14/2023 | Ms. Codex 1662 | Chemical alphabet of Basil Valentine #HappyValentinesDay

2/13/2023 | Ms, Codex 95 | Copies of medieval documents

2/12/2023 | Ms. Codex 688 | Book of Hours from Italy #YearOfHours

2/11/2023 | LJS 453 | Commentaries on Aristotle

2/10/2023 | LJS 46, 43r | Adriana in an herbal #FloraFriday

2/2/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 129v | A dancing bird #drollerydonnerstag

2/8/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 206 | Book of Hours, use of Rome #YearOfHours

2/7/2023 | German prayer book written by a nun | Unboxing video. No record link.

2/6/2023 | LJS 49 | Persian anatomy treatise #MedicalMonday

2/5/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1949‑83‑1| Book of Hours, Use of Chartres #YearOfHours

2/4/2023 | LJS 419 | Italian illustrated herbal

2/3/2023 | LJS 46, 43r | Adriana in an herbal #FloraFriday

2/2/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 130r | Howling little doggy #drollerydonnerstag

2/1/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 88 | Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht #YearOfHours

1/31/2023 | Coffee With A Codex | Secretum Secretorum with Dot Porter on 2/2

1/31/2023 | Little book of hours | Unboxing video. No record link.

1/30/2023 | LJS 431 | Single leaf list of printed and manuscript books

1/29/2023 | Ms. Codex 1056 | Book of hours, use of Rouen #YearOfHours

1/28/2023 | LJS 436 | Manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance

1/27/2023 | LJS 62, f. 3v | Herbal in the tradition of Dioscorides #FloraFriday

1/26/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 121v | Sagittarius #drollerydonnerstag

1/25/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1924-19-1 | Book of hours, use of Paris #YearOfHours

1/24/2023 | Ms. Codex 1640 | Manipulus Florum (Franklin Record, full Video Facsimile on YouTube)

1/23/2023 | Coffee With A Codex | Carta Executoria with Nick Herman on 1/26

1/23/2023 | Coffee With A Codex | An Hour of Hours with McGill University on 1/24

1/23/2023 | LJS 458 | Collection of over 400 recipes for medical, cosmetic, and culinary purposes

1/22/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 90 | Book of Hours, Use of Coutances #YearOfHours

1/21/2023 | LJS 421 | Letter from Hippocrates to Caesar

1/20/2023 | LJS 216, f. 55v | Flower in a diagram #FloraFriday

1/19/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 112r | When pigs fly #drollerydonnerstag

1/18/2023 | Lewis E 116 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome #YearOfHours

1/17/2023 | LJS 477 | Crunchy #parchment

1/16/2023 | LJS 456 | Popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great

1/15/2023 | Franklin & Marshall College Misc. Ms. 146 | South Netherlands Book of Hours (The Hawley Hours) #YearOfHours

1/14/2023 | LJS 438 | Collection of translations of Greek works in the traditions of Plato and Pythagoras

1/13/2023 | Ms. Codex 1162 | Parchment leaf used as a binding #FragmentFriday

1/12/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 101v | A singing bird #drollerydonnerstag

1/11/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 130 | Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht & Scenes from the Life of Christ #YearOfHours

1/10/2023 | LJS 451 | Holes in the #parchment

1/9/2023 | LJS 427 | Books from Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia #MedicalMonday

1/8/2023 | Bryn Mawr College MS 23 | Book of hours, use of Le Mans #YearOfHours

1/7/2023 | LJS 188 | Instructions for the use of astrological tables

1/6/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 42:11 | Epiphany

1/5/2023 | Ms. Codex 724, f. 92r | Grotesque #drollerydonnerstag

1/4/2023 | Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 208 | Book of Hours, Use of Paris #YearOfHours

1/3/2023 | Coffee With A Codex | LJS 24, Medical Miscellany, scheduled for January 19

1/3/2023 | Ms. Codex 180 | Holes in #parchment in Ms. Codex 180

1/2/2023 | LJS 398 | Arabic medical treatise #MedicalMonday

1/1/2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art 1945-65-9 | The Susanna Hours #YearOfHours

12/31/2022 | LJS 429 | Illustrated introduction to natural philosophy

12/30/2022 | Ms. Codex 1101 | Undated parchment fragment from a breviary

12/29/2022 | Ms. Codex 724 | A dancing bird #drollerydonnerstag

12/28/2022 | Ms. Codex 1640 | Manipulus florum

12/27/2022 | LJS 477 | Parchment – hair and flesh sides

12/26/2022 | LJS 424 | Collection of medical texts #MedicalMonday

12/25/2022 | LJS 442 | Renaissance German weapons manual

12/24/2022 | Ms. Codex 1577 | Saint Francis

12/23/2022 | LJS 438 | 14th century fragments in a binding

12/22/2022 | Ms. Codex 724 | A Silly Goose

12/21/2022 | LJS 416 | Regulations for mills and bakeries

12/20/2022 | LJS 451 | Parchment with a sewed-up split

12/19/2022 | LJS 430 | Analysis of urine in diagnosing disease

12/18/2022 | Ms. Codex 924 | Historical tragedy

12/17/2022 | LJS 452 | Alphabetical dictionary of Latin words and names

12/16/2022 | LJS 196 | Overpainted leaves from a Persian manuscript and an Arabic lithograph

12/15/2022 | Ms. Codex 724 | Rabbit playing a horn

12/14/2022 | Ms. Codex 1101 | Historical works about war and prophecy

12/13/2022 | LJS 24 | Parchment with uncut edges

12/12/2022 | LJS 458 | A collection of scientific recipes

12/11/2022 | LJS 412 | Astrolabes and astronomy

12/10/2022 | Ms. Codex 1233 | Notated breviary

12/9/2022 | LJS 185 | Leaves from a Coptic psalter

12/8/2022 | Ms. Codex 724 | Unicorn

12/7/2022 | LJS 451 | Commentary on a poem

12/6/2022 | Ms. Codex 2053 | Roman Missal

12/5/2022 | Ms. Codex 1660 | Collection of alchemical recipes

12/4/2022 | LJS 447 | Animals and plants

12/3/2022 | LJS 64 | Astronomical volvelles

12/2/2022 | LJS 119 | Canon law leaf used in a binding

12/1/2022 | Ms. Codex 724 | Bird