
Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
An exhibition in conjunction with
Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
On exhibit: -

Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund
Sound, Gender, and the Color Line
A Symposium and Celebration in Honor of Marian Anderson, Musician and Citizen of the World

10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Intertwined Worlds
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Penn and Slavery:
A Symposium organized by the Penn & Slavery Project
& the Program on Race, Science, and Society
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Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Public Affairs Lecture Series
American Pie
The Politics of Food in the 21st Century
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Across the Spectrum
Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015
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Materials Library & Common Press Preview
Curated by German Pallares & Mary Tasillo. Text by Roksana Filipowska & Hannah Bennett
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Textual Spaces
an Architecture of Reading
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Archives Month Philly 2017
Behind the Scenes
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Collecting Mesoamerica:
The Hemispheric Roots of U.S. Anthropology
On exhibit: -

Covered with Vines:
The Many Talents of Ludwig Bemelmans
On exhibit: -

Book Launch
The Solitary Twin
by Harry Mathews

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in partnership with the Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce the following lecture:
Preacher's Lost Voice:
The Roman Inquisition and Oral Sermons in Early Modern Italy

Medieval - Renaissance Welcome Back Party
Round Table and Reception to Kick Off the New Year!

Revealing Galen's Simples

Charles IV
An Emperor in Europe (1316-2016)
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Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Music in the Pavilion
2017-2018 Concert Season Schedule
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Common Press at 10:
Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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![Detail from [The Alchemist] Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. le Brun., (Engraving) [17--]. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, E. F. Smith Collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/feature-sq-amanuensis.jpg?itok=PBCI6znC)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Ann Blair: "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe"
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Mary J. Carruthers: "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages"
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Destiny and Design
Perception and Uses of Time in South Asia
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Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
Intellectuals and the Struggle for Social Justice
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Line and Letter
Examining a 16th-century Shirazi Manuscript
On exhibit: -

Literae Humaniores in the University of Pennsylvania Library
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2018-2019 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & Center for Italian Studies Fellow’s Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies
Writing and Reading Rubrics in the Renaissance Decameron
Rhiannon Daniels, Senior Lecturer in Italian History Bristol University

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Carlo Ginzburg: Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited

9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Reactions: Medieval/Modern
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Returning Splendor to Ruins
Recovering the Alhambra in Plaster Casts & Prints
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Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction
A talk by scholar-artist Bill Dietz on the life and work of Maryanne Amacher (1938 – 2009)

Ormandy in China:
The Historic 1973 Tour
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A Selection of Sixteenth-Century Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: -

"Let Every Heart Be Filled with Joy"
Philadelphia's Savoy Company
On exhibit: -

Fisher Fine Arts Library exhibit
Art, Territory, and Identity
On exhibit: -
![Ptolemy, [Almagest] [manuscript] [Spain], A.H. 783 (1381), LJS 268, 132v](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-07/feature-sq-ljs268.jpg?h=101193d7&itok=k8GetTE_)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy
Form and Style in the Transmission to the Latin West
Professor Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, University of London
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Archives Month Philly
From Antarctica to Zimbabwe
Around the World with Archives, Books and Codices
October 23, 2019, 5:00-6:30 PM

Shakespeare's 451st Birthday Party

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians 5th Annual Audience Appreciation Day
String Trio in the Pavilion

Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
2016-2017 Concert Season Schedule
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Representing Modern Japan:
The Luber Collection of Art Books
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Alberto Manguel: "The Traveller, the Tower & the Worm"
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Tablet, Scroll, & Book
Judaic Treasures
On exhibit: -

Agents Wanted
Subscription Publishing in America
On exhibit: -

Hidden in Plain Sight
Musical Treasures in the Penn Libraries
On exhibit: -

The Nine Lives of Edgar Fahs Smith
On exhibit: -

Rudolf Serkin
A Musician's Life in Photographs and Documents
On exhibit: -

From Book to Garden and Back
Works of Ian Hamilton Finlay
On exhibit: -

OK, I'll Do It Myself
Narratives of intrepid Women in the American Wilderness
Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness
On exhibit: -

An Evening with
Ashley Bryan
Renowned Artist, Poet, Storyteller, and Humanitarian

Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund in partnership with the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce:
The Science of Information, 1870-1945:
The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age
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8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Picking Up the Pieces
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Manuscriptistan
Photographs by Anthony M. Cerulli
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Music in the Stacks
Penn Flutes, Deluxe Holiday Edition

Cornucopia:
Corn Conquers the World
On exhibit: -

Paper: A Deckled Edge
The Paper Artwork of Lesley Haas
On exhibit: -

Life During Wartime:
Penn at Home and Abroad During the Great War
On exhibit: -

Utopian Explorations and Science Fiction
On exhibit: -

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder
The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr.
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Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints
in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Cusack Family Seminar Room 629, Kislak Center

The Department of English, The Department of History, The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, and Van Pelt-Dietrich Library co-sponsor
A Double Reading
by Wendy Moffat, author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster and Justin Spring, author of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

In partnership with the Center for Italian Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to present the following lecture:
Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida:
Composition—Circulation—Reception
Francesco Marco Aresu, Assistant Professor of Italian and Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University

Author Event
The Great Nadar The Man Behind the Camera
Philadelphia Launch

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Pen and Press:
Practices of Writing & Publishing in Colonial America
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
William Zachs: "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books"
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4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Writing the East:
History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions
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A Chef and His Library
An Exhibition Selected from the Collection of Fritz Blank
On exhibit: -

Seasons of Western Pennsylvania
The Photography of Donald M. Robinson
On exhibit: -

Making Prints
Prints from the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

The Body as Evidence
A Twenty-year Retrospective: The Photography of Candace diCarlo
On exhibit: -

Life in Boxes
Comic Art & Artifacts
On exhibit: -

A conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project
Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History
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Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Fund for Library Public Events
Creating Children's Books Symposium
Collaboration and Change
A symposium in honor of William Steig and Atha Tehon
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7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Collecting Histories
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Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library
Music in the Pavilion
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Wolf Conference 2019
Immersive Storytelling: Creating Narratives with VR & AR

Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
The Relevance of Dreyfus
in the Age of ISIS

Drawing Away:
Exile and the Graphic Novel
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Global Perspectives on the Medieval Past
On exhibit: -

This Book Belongs To...
Provenance Marks and Book Ownership Through the Centuries
On exhibit: -

Prehistoric Wessex:
Towards a Deep Map
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LABECULAE VIVAE:
Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts
On exhibit: -

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder:
The Angling Bindings of S. A. Neff, Jr.

Penn Libraries presents
A Symposium on Preserving Contemporary Cultural Heritage

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies-Herbert D. Katz Center Fellowship in Jewish Manuscript Studies and the David B. Ruderman Distinguished Fellowship Lecture
Tales of Three Texts:
The Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew Medical Texts in UPenn MS Codex 1649

Sponsored by the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Music in the Pavilion
2018-2019 Concert Season Schedule
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Siamese Sampler:
19th-century Manuscripts of Scripture, Poetry, and Decree
On exhibit: -

Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890
The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
On exhibit: -

Composing
Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds
On exhibit: -

Selections from the Thomas Evans Collection
On exhibit: -

Shakespearean Residues:
Shakespeare at 450
On exhibit: -

The Qur’an
Revelation, Illumination, and Tradition
On exhibit: -

Collections on Display
A Look Back at 20 Years of Penn Libraries Exhibitions
On exhibit: -

2018-2019 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
A Mahzor is a Mahzor is a Mahzor?
Studying CAJS Rare MS 382
Professor Elisabeth Hollender, Goethe Institute Frankfurt

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Divine Art / Infernal Machine
Western Views of Printing Surveyed
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
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A Raging Wit
The Life and Legacy of Jonathan Swift
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Gothic Arts
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
Trumped
Cartooning in the Wind of the Donald Trump Presidency
Signe Wilkinson, Editorial Cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Variety of the feather'd Kind"
The Birds of Mark Catesby
On exhibit: -

Equus Unbound:
Fairman Rogers and the Age of the Horse
On exhibit: -

Literae Humaniores
Treasures from the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

Reading Pictures:
Sixteenth-Century European Illustrated Books
On exhibit: -

Word Play:
The Printed Game
On exhibit: -

Thomas Evans and Félix Nadar
On exhibit: -

12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Hooking Up
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Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 3rd fl.

Red Etchings:
Soviet Book Illustrations from the Collection of Monroe Price
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly
Cataloging Conflict

2019-2020 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's
Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
Changing Minds
Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds
through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar
Professor Fabrizio Lelli, University of Salento (Lecce, Italy)

Unpublished Titanic Collection Lands at the Penn Libraries

Academic Freedom Now
A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Scott Nearing Affair
![Detail from Biblia Latina, [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, before August 1456] Courtesy of the William H. Scheide Library, Princeton University Library](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/feature-sq-needham.jpg?itok=RITnHSYL)
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Paul Needham: "The First Quarter Century of European Printing"
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The Revolt of the Bees
Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared
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Sister Carrie
“A Strangely Strong Novel in a Queer Milieu”
On exhibit: -

Werner Pfeiffer
(censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter)
Book-Objects & Artist Books
On exhibit: -

Osvaldo Romberg: The Library is Burning
Text, Image, Object: 1963-2006
On exhibit: -

Inventing Liberty
Books and Manuscripts on the American Revolution
Selected from the Library of Marvin Weiner
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A Symposium
Romantic Prints on the Move
February 1-2, 2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art & Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Philadelphia Museum of Art's Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Perelman Building

On exhibit March 11 - August 16, 2013
On exhibit: -

27th Ezra Pound International Conference
Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry:
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, and Marianne Moore
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Expanding Earth
Travel, Encounter, and Exchange
On exhibit: -

Critical Refusals:
Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis
On exhibit: -

Recent Acquisitions
On exhibit: -

Silver Bells and Oscar Gold:
Ray Evans in Hollywood
On exhibit: -

In Sight: Seeing the People of the Holy Land
Selections from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
On exhibit: -

Arbitrary Pleasures - Plaisirs Arbitraires
On exhibit: -

"Let us go then, you and I"
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly
The Paper Menagerie:
Animals on the Page in the Kislak Center's Special Collections

Arthur Tress
A Visual Odyssey

The English Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts invite you to:
Reading, Writing, Printing
A Conference in Honor of Peter Stallybrass
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: "Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage"
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Making Artificial Intelligence Trustable, Transparent & Useful
The Role of the National Library of Medicine
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
Director, National Library of Medicine

Twelve Black Classicists
The Earliest Contributions of African Americans to Classical Studies
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The Penn Library Collections at 250
From Franklin to the Web
2000

Collaborations
Enid Mark and the ELM Press
On exhibit: -

Come One, Come All!
Posters from the University of Pennsylvania Library
On exhibit: -

Deciphering the Past
A Retrospective View of the Art & Science of Cryptology
The Charles J. Mendelsohn Cryptology Collection
On exhibit: -

Thomas Evans
and the Professional Press
On exhibit: -

The Kislak Center’s Gotham Book Mart Centennial
Wise Men Fished Here
A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
On exhibit: -

The Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund
American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies (3355 Woodland Walk)

The Image Affair
Dreyfus in the Media, 1894-1906
On exhibit: -

Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar
On exhibit: -

Francis Johnson:
Music Master of Early Philadelphia
On exhibit: -

Wonders of the Microscope
On exhibit: -

Recent Acquisitions from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
On exhibit: -

"Surely no person was ever so happy as I am":
Emma Hamilton's Path to Fame
On exhibit: -

The Worlds Between
An Exploration of Magic, Folklore, and the Occult
On exhibit: -
![An Elegy On the much Lamented Death of the Ingenious and Well-Belov'd Aquila Rose, Clerk to the Honourable Assembly at Philadelphia, who died the 24th of the 6th Month, 1723. Aged 28. Philadelphia: [Printed by Benjamin Franklin for Samuel Keimer], 1723. University of Pennsylvania Libraries collection.](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-05/aquilarose_300.jpg?h=490d1451&itok=xxjA79_1)
The Rebirth of Aquila Rose:
Benjamin Franklin's First Philadelphia Printing Job
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The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair
On exhibit: -

Archives Month Philly 2016
By the Book:
Making—and Breaking!—the Rules

Remembering Chef Fritz, Guiding Star of Philadelphia's Restaurant Renaissance
Author talk with Sam Young

Paint over Print
Hand-Colored Books and Maps of the Early Modern Period
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The Stage and All the World
Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps
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Soviet Architecture: The Fifth View
On exhibit: -

Modern Ireland
Four Centuries through English, American, and Irish Eyes
On exhibit: -

Building Penn
Campus Planning and Architecture at America’s First University
On exhibit: -

Michael Winkler
Word Images 1982-2004
On exhibit: -

Polymorphous
The Forms of Artists Books
On exhibit: -

Listen to the Mockingbird
American Popular Culture in Sheet Music
On exhibit: -

Musical Partnerships at Play:
The Marlboro Music Festival

Archives Month Philly Event
Defying Convention
Audacious Women in the Kislak Center Collections

11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message
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Beitler Collection Distinguished Lecture
The Politics of Paranoia and Nationalism in the Age of Trump
Lecture by Edward-Isaac Dovere

21st annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
geographies of the book
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Dissecting The Gross Clinic
On exhibit: -

John Milton at 400
The Joseph A. Wittreich Collection, A Gift in Honor of Stuart Curran on the Occasion of His Retirement
On exhibit: -
![Detail of head of Christ, from [De philosophia naturali] (Germany, ca.1485-1499), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2019-09/god-exist.jpg?itok=TUD5UsQj)
Resolved?
God Does Not Exist
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Thomas Wiltberger Evans
16th Century Bible Collection
On exhibit May 1 -August 2, 2019
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The Poet and the Dentist:
Stéphane Mallarmé and Thomas Evans
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The Civil War:
An Ephemeral Lens Into the Life and Times
On exhibit: -

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania Presents
Genizah Scribes at Work
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques

The Buddha's Flower Sermon
Book Discussion & Reading with Jeff Shore

2016-2017 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies & the Herbert D. Katz Center Distinguished Fellow's Lecture in Jewish Manuscript Studies
"No Longer Alien Residents"
Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance
Professor Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

Early Medical and Dental Books
From the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
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Common Press at 10:
Printing, Writing, Teaching, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Ashley Bryan Archive Celebration
and Philadelphia Book Launch for Infinite Hope

Book Arts from UArts
Selections from the University of the Arts MFA Program in Book Arts/Printmaking 1989-2005
On exhibit: -
![detail of LJS 429 - [De philosophia naturali]](/sites/default/files/styles/test/public/2020-03/squ.jpg?h=57e47a14&itok=n-G1jOJq)
Specula: Mirrors of Man and Nature
Manuscripts from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg
On exhibit: -

Printer, Publisher, Peddler
The Business of the Jewish Book
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Borges
The Time Machine / la Máquina del Tiempo
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Petrarch at 700
An Exhibition from the Collections of Cornell University Library and the University of Pennsylvania Library
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