An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
Coffee with a Codex is open to the public. Everyone is welcome to attend. Note that the Zoom links for Coffee With a Codex are reusable - register once and attend every Thursday at 12pm EDT / 5pm BST.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On September 21, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 747, a verse paraphrase of the Bible, both Old Testament and New Testament, by Peter Riga. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On September 14, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 41, the Book of Esther written on 3 gatherings removed from a miscellany. The first leaf of the first gathering begins with the last 7 verses of the Book of Lamentations, the work that preceded the Book of Esther in the miscellany. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend. Welcome back for 2023-2024!
On September 7, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 101, a 9th and 11th century copy of Aristotle translated by Boethius, created as part of the Carolingian educational program. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On July 27, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1869, a 15th century book of hours that was damaged, then reconstructed in the late 19th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On July 20, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1239, a 16th century Italian portable monastic libellus. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On July 13, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 738, a 15th century Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On July 6, Curator Dot Porter attended the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in the UK. On CWAC, she showcased University of Leeds BC MS 2, Breviary offices, Psalter and Hours from the Brotherton Collection. (CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On June 29, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1673, 18th-century Latin copy of the magical handbook the Key of Solomon, from the Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On June 22, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 435, portions of an illustrated treatise on surgery, with topics including incision, perforation, blood-letting, wounds, bone-setting, dislocations, and sprains. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On June 8, Curator Dot Porter was originally scheduled to present LJS 41, the Book of Esther in Hebrew written on 3 gatherings removed from a miscellany, but instead she brought out Ms. Rolls 2010, 2011, and 2013 – Scrolls of Esther. Three scrolls of the Book of Esther, to be read during Purim. North Africa, 17th or 18th c. (Rolls are not yet digitized. CWAC Recording)
The presentation of LJS 41 was rescheduled for September 14, 2023.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On June 1 (rescheduled from April 20), Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 216, a collection of three scientific works, nearly contemporary with the life of the author: one work on cosmology and astronomy, one on arithmetic, and one on the division of time according to the movements of the sun and moon.(OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On May 25, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 906, a late 15th-century copy of the famous French poem Roman de la Rose. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On May 11, Curator Dot Porter attended the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, and showed off a late 15th century Flemish book of hours, perhaps use of Paris, recently acquired by Western Michigan University. (CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On May 4, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 412, a collection of four Arabic treatises on astrolabes and astronomy. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
Everyone is welcome to attend. On April 27, Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 1229, a selection of texts and chants for use in a French Dominican convent. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On April 13, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 716, a collection of prayers and sermons written in France in the 13th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On April 6, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 449 and LJS 463, two 15th century German collections including medical, astronomical, and astrological texts. (LJS 449: OPenn, BiblioPhilly; LJS 463: OPenn, BiblioPhilly; CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On March 30, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 724, a copy of the Vulgate Bible written in France in the late 13th century. It is full of illuminated initials and delightful drolleries. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On March 23, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 243, an Italian compendium of Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics, written ca. 1500. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On March 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 299, a 15th century Hebrew translation of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia along with short medical works in Judeo-Arabic. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On March 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1058, an early 12th century book of Psalms with extensive, mostly unattributed, interlinear and marginal glosses, followed by canticles with glosses. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On March 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 234, a 14th century commentary on Aristotle's Physics, divided into 8 books with occasional marginal notes. (Openn BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On February 23, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 708, a 12th century collection of works by Augustine and some erroneously attributed to Augustine. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On February 16, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 443, a collection of commentaries, treatises, tables and diagrams concerning the calendar, by authors from the 7th to the 15th centuries, written in Armenian. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On February 9, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1063, a book of hours produced in England, probably London, perhaps for a member of a religious confraternity or community, and includes unusual musical notation. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators.
On February 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out four copies of Secretum secretorum, in Arabic and Latin–LJS 459, LJS 456, Ms. Codex 917, and Ms. Codex 864. Secretum secretorum is a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great on statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. (CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On January 26, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman brought out LJS 21, a Carta executoria issued under the name of Philip III of Spain in favor of Juan de Mena Gutierrez of the town of Los Santos in the Spanish province of León, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status). Granada, 14 April 1606. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On January 19, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 24, a collection of 10th- through early 13th-century texts that formed the standard 13th-century medical curriculum (referred to and printed in the Renaissance under the collective title Articella), here copied in the mid-13th century with inhabited initials showing medical scenes, likely written by and for Dominican monks.
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On December 13, Curator Dot Porter and cataloger Amey Hutchins will show us Ms. Roll 1066, an illuminated chronicle tracing the descent of Edward IV from Adam, through Brut and Arthur , and the historical kings of England. Written and illustrated in England, probably London, soon after the accession of Edward IV in 1461. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Online edition, CWAC Recording)
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On December 6, Curator Dot Porter will show us LJS 445, a German anthology of astrological and astronomical works, including material copied from three incunables. Copied in or after 1488; copied in Germany, possibly Nuremberg. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On November 29, Curator Dot Porter will show us Ms. Codex 1572, a complete portable gradual with chants for the Mass according to the Use of Brixen (now Bressanone), possibly from a Benedictine monastic foundation. Written in the diocese of Brixen in the south Tyrol (now Bressanone, in Italy), between 1300 and 1325. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. On November 22, Curator Dot Porter will show us LJS 419, an illustrated herbal with three styles of illustration. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On November 15 guest host Shreve Simpson will show us LJS 278, an illustrated herbal in Persian with detailed descriptions of the physical appearance and the medicinal effect of many plants, as well as some trees, minerals, and substances derived from animals.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually to talk about one the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 54, a brief explanation of the office of notary and the purpose of notarial documents (f. 1r), followed by transcriptions of deeds and acts arranged in subject order as examples for a notary drawing up a document. Written in Padua between 1227 and 1237. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to talk about the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 236, a medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week, Dot Porter will bring out Oversize Ms. Codex 20, a copy of the Summa dictaminis of Thomas de Capua followed 15 shorter works on the same topic attributed to Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1263, a two-part manual of confession for use by a female penitent, probably in a religious order. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak Curator Dot Porter and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. This week, curator Dot Porter will bring out Oversize LJS 473, an illustrated treatise on ships and shipbuilding, written in northeastern Italy in 1464-1465. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators to talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman will bring out Oversize Ms. Codex 2076, an illuminated missal written and decorated in Italy, probably between 1456 and 1482. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak Curator Dot Porter and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. This week's featured item is Oversize Ms. Codex 722, a 14th century French dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak Curator Dot Porter and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. Everyone is welcome to attend. On August 17, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Oversize LJS 25, 13th century Italian copies of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, translated into Latin. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak Curator Dot Porter and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. Everyone is welcome to attend. On August 10, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 825, a 14th century Italian copy of William of Ockham's Summa totius logicae, a work of logic divided into 4 parts. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On August 3, Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman brought out Ms. Codex 85, a collection of papal letters and instruments dealing with the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine (the Augustinians) copied in Italy ca. 1506.
Unfortunately Nick didn't record the event, but on August 29, Curator Dot Porter led a small group for a couple of people who missed the original event, and that was recorded and is presented here. This is an Unofficial CWAC recording and is very different from what Nick Herman presented on August 3. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On July 27, Curator Dot Porter brought out Oversize LJS 184, a late 13th century copy of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, an encyclopedia with emphasis on word origins, arranged by subject. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On July 6, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1640, an early 14th century English compendium of extracts, mostly from Biblical, patristic, and later Christian literature, categorized by subject with the subjects in alphabetical order, designed as a reference work for use in writing sermons. (CWAC Recording)
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On June 29, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 280, a 13th century French copy of the decretals compiled by Raymond of Peñafort in the 1230s by order of Pope Gregory IX, in a 15th century chained binding. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On June 22, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 23, sections from a 13th century copy of Thomas de Cantimpré's general introduction to science, including parts of his sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. This is one of the earliest known copies of this text, possibly written during de Cantimpré's lifetime. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On June 8, Curator Dot Porter brought out three 16th century German treatises on munitions and explosive devices, with many illustrations of the various devices and their uses: Ms. Codex 109, Ms. Codex 129, and LJS 442. (OPenn: Ms. Codex 109, Ms. Codex 129, LJS 442; BiblioPhilly: Ms. Codex 109, Ms. Codex 129, LJS 442; CWAC Recording)
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On June 1, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1056, an illuminated book of hours written in Rouen, France, for a woman. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On May 25, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 361, a 15th c. Italian manuscript containing both astronomical and astrological tables and a remnant of commentaries on gospel and epistle readings. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On May 18, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1136, 15th c. German copy of De secretis mulierum (also known as Secreta mulierum), a work erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus and concerning various issues of women's health, with an unidentified commentary. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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On May 11, Dot will bring out LJS 347, an incomplete and heavily glossed 14th century English copy of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most enduring and influential texts which remained popular throughout the middle ages. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)
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May 4 is Star Wars Day, so Dr Brandon Hawk will join Dot to talk about the manuscripts of Star Wars and how their designs are informed by real medieval manuscripts. (CWAC Recording) You can also read our paper Aionomica, Rammahgon, and De sphaera mundi: Bibliographic Medievalism in Star Wars, which we presented at Books on Screen: A Virtual Symposium, University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University, November 3, 2021.
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On April 27 Kathryn Phipps, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies, will bring out Ms. Coll. 728, folder 23, a highly calligraphic document (Escrito curioso) consisting of a short theological treatise in Spanish followed by religiously themed illustrations, acrostics, poems, odes, and elegies, all in Latin. (CWAC Recording)
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On April 20, Dot will report live from the University of Glasgow where she is undertaking a fellowship. We’ll look at MS Hunter 231, a 14th century illuminated collection of devotional and philosophical writings. You can find out more about it in the University of Glasgow catalogue. (CWAC Recording)
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On April 13, SIMS Graduate Fellow Hallie Swanson will discuss Ms. Codex 1958, a composite codex of two works on Persian letter composition from nineteenth-century India. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)
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