Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1645 – Technical treatise on the painting of miniatures 3 Oct 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Ms. Codex 1645, an 18th-century copy of a technical treatise on the painting…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 361 – [Astronomical and astrological tables] 26 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 361, Opening and closing sections of astronomical and astrological tables on either…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 347 – De consolatione philosophiae 19 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 347, a 14th-century English copy of Boethius' philosophical dialogue in five books…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: LJS 342 – [Copies of documents relating to water rights in Milan] 12 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 342, copies of 9 documents relating to the illicit use of water…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday LJS 322 – [Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb] 5 Sep 202222 Aug 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to LJS 322, fragmented sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part…
Manuscript Monday… Manuscript Monday: LJS 312 – [ʻIr siḥon] 30 Aug 202230 Jun 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 312, a mathematical work on basic calculations, including business or…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1644 – Collegium chymica 22 Aug 202220 Jul 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1644, a chemical manuscript with instructions for preparing several…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1642 – De las doze cargas 15 Aug 202220 Jul 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1642, the responses of Bartolomé de las Casas to…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1641 – The history of King Richard the Third 8 Aug 202220 Jul 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1641, Late 17th-century copy of Thomas More's negative biography…
Manuscript Monday Manuscript Monday: Ms. Codex 1639 – Proceedings of Inquisition 1 Aug 202220 Jul 2022 Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1639, proceedings of the Inquisition in Mexico concerning riots…
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