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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On June 18, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman, who will show us two illuminated ketubahs, or Jewish marriage contracts.
On June 25, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1564, a copy of the Penitential Psalms in French, written in France in the 17th century.
On July 2, curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 386, substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science.
On June 11, curator Dot Porter will be attending a workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. While there, she will visit the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and bring out their 15th c. copy of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World).
On June 4, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 2141, a 16th century collection of approximately 20 prayers with calligraphic ornamentation.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 28, curator Dot Porter brought out -Ms. Codex 869, a collection of treatises, bullae, and regulations of Franciscan interest (for a second look).
For Coffee With A Codex on May 21, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1531, a book of hours, use of Rome, printed ca. 1507 in Paris.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 14, curator Dot Porter and Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman brought out an exciting new acquisition: an English medical and astrological almanac with leaves folded into 6 compartments and historical notes up to 1415.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 7, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 741, a verse summary of Raymond of Peñaforte's Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio; canon law on marriage, simony, usury, luxury, bigamy, etc., with a brief Bible dictionary, arranged in canonical order, not in alphabetical order.
For Coffee With A Codex on April 30, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 869, a collection of treatises, bullae, and regulations of Franciscan interest, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Bonaventure, and Saint Bernard and bullae of Eugene IV and Nicholas IV.
For Coffee With A Codex on April 23, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman brought out Ms. Codex 688, a small, delicate book of hours from 16th century Italy.
For Coffee With A Codex on April 16 (rescheduled from March 5), Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman brought out CAJS Rar Ms 720, Marcus Hartig's alphabetization of the Hebrew Psalms, in his 1876 manuscript.
For Coffee With A Codex on April 9, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe.
For Coffee With a Codex on April 2, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 196, a collection of three devotional works in metrical verse in Middle English and Latin.
For Coffee With A Codex on March 26, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations, followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar.
On March 19, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 468, arithmetical tables framed by ornamental borders, followed by a brief introduction and statements of problems and their solutions. Written in Lombardy around 1578.
For Coffee With A Codex on March 12, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus.
On February 26, curator Dot Porter brought out a selection of manuscripts from Ethiopia.
For Coffee With A Codex on February 19, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 201, a copy of the New Testament translated into Middle English by John Wycliffe.
For Coffee With A Codex on February 12, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 426, a 14th century copy of the first book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia in Arabic.
For Coffee With A Codex on February 5, curator Dot Porter brought out a variety of fragments and leaves from books of hours, from the 15th and 16th centuries and written in France, the Netherlands, and England.
For Coffee With A Codex on January 29, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 55, a 15th century copy of the Statutes of Vigliano d'Asti.
For Coffee With a Codex on January 22, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 778, the memorbuch for the community of Austerlitz (Czech Republic), dating from early 17th century.
For our first Coffee With a Codex of 2026, on January 15 Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 2265, an illuminated psalter arranged in eight sections, probably originally marked by illuminations or decorated borders (all but two of which are now missing).
For Coffee With A Codex on December 18, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1904, a copy of the Qur'ān, with instructions for how much to read from the Qur'ān every day of the week added in modern script. Written in Malta in 1654.
For Coffee With A Codex on December 11, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 16, a volume comprising Books 25 to 28 of the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais. It was written in France, probably Paris, circa 1400.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a manuscript that contains the legend of Kālaka, important to the Śvetāmbara Jains and read during the first night of the Paryuṣaṇā.
Coffee With a Codex featuring a Flemish illuminated book of hours including 6 full-page arched miniatures and 15 historiated initials on gold grounds.
Coffee With a Codex featuring the oldest codex in Philadelphia! It includes a translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione by Boethius, and other texts.
Coffee With a Codex featuring a collection of genealogical and chronicle material in Middle French, including Biblical genealogy from Adam to Jesus and the apostles, the Trojan War, and the Holy Roman Emperors.
Coffee With A Codex featuring an 18th century manuscript written by Moses Gomez de Mesquita documenting his administration and institution of prayer customs for the Sephardim in England.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book containing calendar, tables of solar and lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, and urine wheel. Field trip to the Rosenbach Museum & Library!
Coffee With A Codex featuring a collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen.
Coffee With A Codex featuring an illuminated Ferial psalter containing the psalms, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and other prayers. It was written in Trento c. 1350.
Coffee With A Codex featuring the second volume of a 10th-century dictionary of the Arabic language. It was written in Egypt or Syria in the 14th century.
Coffee With A Codex featuring an illuminated prayer book with a processional, and a prayer added in German.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a manuscript of the Yom Kippur Maḥzor for the rite of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue written and signed by Eliyahu Delpuget.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a 15th century Italian herbal containing a variety of illustrations, accompanied by notes on medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a facsimile of Beinecke Library MS 408, aka The Voynich Manuscript. This is a realistic facsimile that looks exactly like the real thing!
Coffee With A Codex featuring two fragments of a number of astronomical texts in Middle English, written in England circa 1496.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a 12th century copy of the text On calculation with integers and fractions, written in Arabic.
Coffee With a Codex featuring a 15th century Italian manuscript of treatise De spiritu et anima, erroneously attributed to St. Augustine (actually written by Alcherus of Clairvaux).
Coffee With a Codex featuring medieval coins with Lucy Moore, Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections at the Leeds University Library.
Coffee With a Codex featuring an ascetic miscellany containing a selection of works related to self-privation.
Coffee With A Codex featuring Ms. Codex 75, a Handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests copied in England or Wales in the early 15th century.
Coffee With a Codex featuring two examples of manuscripts written in Coptic and Arabic.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a 16th-century copy in Persian of a 12th-century romance about the life of Bahrām Gūr, a 5th-century king of Iran
Coffee With A Codex featuring a collection of theological texts written in Germany between approximately 1250 and 1399.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 15, curator Dot Porter brought out a complete 13th century New Testament with prologues, written in a tiny script and including extensive marginal notes.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 8, Curator Dot Porter presented a 12th century copy of a treatise of the Eucharist at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
For Coffee With A Codex on May 1 Curator Dot Porter brought out three fragments from an 11th-century manuscript roll of the Liturgy of Saint Basil in the Byzantine Rite.
Coffee With A Codex featuring three of our earliest Latin astronomy texts.
Coffee With A Codex featuring an early copy of the long form of a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great.
Coffee With A Codex featuring two substantial fragments featuring glossed texts, both from France, written in the early 13th and early 14th centuries.
Coffee With a Codex featuring an incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid's Elements and a separate quire from the same manuscript, collected at different times.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a collection of anonymous sermons for Sundays from the Second Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a 14th-century copy of the 12th-century pedagogical text Compendium historiae in genelogia Christi & the Speculum Theologiae diagram series.
Coffee With A Codex featuring a 15th century portable Missal made in Italy.
Coffee With a Codex featuring a 13th-century copy of Haimo's 9th-century commentary on the Song of Solomon.
Coffee With A Codex featuring LJS 446, a 12th century copy of sections from Book I of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia القانون في الطب (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb).
Coffee With A Codex featuring Ms. Oversize 33 and Ms. Oversize 4, fragments of two large 16th century choirbooks from Spain.
Coffee With A Codex featuring Ms. Codex 107, a cartulary of the monastery of San Andrés de Fanlo in Aragon (Spain).
Coffee with a Codex featuring LJS 477, a collection of sermons, probably compiled from multiple sources, belonging to a preacher.
Coffee With A Codex featuring CAJS Rar Ms 375, a 13th century copy of a Biblical lexicon in Hebrew.
Coffee With A Codex featuring an Ms. Codex 2076, an illuminated missal written and decorated in Italy, probably between 1456 and 1482.
Coffee With A Codex featuring Ms. Codex 105, a collection of papal bulls and documents concerning privileges granted to the Order of Teutonic Knights. (Not recorded)
Coffee With A Codex featuring an as-yet uncataloged book of hours, written in the late 19th century.
Coffee With a Codex featuring Ms. Codex 760, a 15th century Italian copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
Coffee With A Codex featuring Ms. Roll 1563, a 15th century roll of prayers in Latin and Middle English.
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 November 7, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1604, a manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The main languages used in both printed and manuscript are German and Latin, and the manuscript section was written in Germany in the late 15th century. It's a fascinating example of the interplay between print and manuscript through the 15th century. (BiblioPhilly, OPenn, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 7, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1604, a manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The main languages used in both printed and manuscript are German and Latin, and the manuscript section was written in Germany in the late 15th century. It's a fascinating example of the interplay between print and manuscript through the 15th century. (BiblioPhilly, OPenn, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 October 31, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1677, a collection of occult texts copied and compiled by Charles Rainsford and mainly comprising prayers, lists of divine names for invocations (p. 180-189), and instructions for conjurations taken from works attributed to well-known occultists such as John Dee and Richard Napier. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)Note that the Zoom links for Coffee With a Codex are reusable - register once and attend every Thursday at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT.See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex three weeks aheadJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 October 24, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 387, an illuminated 14th or 15th century copy of al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, a dictionary of the Arabic language originally compiled between 1368 and 1392. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)Note that the Zoom links for Coffee With a Codex are reusable - register once and attend every Thursday at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT.See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex three weeks aheadJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 October 17, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 722, a 14th century French dictionary of grammatical forms and definitions of theological, religious, and secular terms, arranged alphabetically; it includes Latinized Hebrew words and gives equivalents in Old French in various instances. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 October 10, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 2030, a book of hours on parchment with incomplete miniatures, written and illuminated in France, possibly Paris, circa 1500. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 October 3, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 500, a 15th century alchemical and medical compendium containing recipes and texts from a variety of sources, many of which appear with traditional (now suspect) attributions in other manuscripts, with an alphabetical index to recipes at the beginning of the volume. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 26, Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, introduced us to a new acquisition at the Library of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies: CAJS Rar Ms 718, a ceremonial dagger dating from the 18th-19th centuries. It was used for the protection of infants and homes from evil spirits and harm (similar to the athamé, a blade with illustrations and glyphs for occultic use), originating from Iraq or Persia. (CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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.Two of the most popular, frequently copied and translated astronomical texts of the Middle Ages were Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi and Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum. On September 19, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 42, a 16th century commentary on a Hebrew translation of Sphaera mundi, followed by a commentary on a Hebrew translation of Theoricae novae planetarum. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 12, Head of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library & Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center Liza Vick brought out a poetry chapbook by conductor James DePreist, paired with a handwritten letter from DePreist to his aunt, contralto Marian Anderson. (Record for letter (Family Series C correspondence in Box 71, folder 9), Record for chapbook, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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.In 1245, Gautier of Metz composed a poetic summary of all knowledge on the creation of the world and man, geography, and astronomy, and Penn has two copies! On September 5, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 264, written in France around 1400, and LJS 55, written in France in the 1290s. (LJS 264: OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive; LJS 55: OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive. CWAC Recording featuring both)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 July 18, PhD candidate in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe brought out Ms. Codex 2136, a miniature book of hours on parchment for the Use of Rome, made in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century. (CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 July 11, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 434, an anonymous translation of the Golden Legend different from translation used in early printed editions. Written in Italy in 1459. (BiblioPhilly, OPenn, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)Note that the Zoom links for Coffee With a Codex are reusable - register once and attend every Thursday at 12pm EST / 5pm GMT.See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 June 27, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 46, a 16th century Italian illustrated herbal, with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco added less than a century later. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 June 20, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 700, Geleitsbatzen ledger, for the record of sales of travel papers for and by the Jewish community of Worms, Germany. Written in Worms, 1685-1686. (CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 June 13, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1634, plans of fortifications for use at the royal academy of artillery and fortification founded in Turin in 1678, consisting entirely of figures of plans and elevations, some with landscape elements added in the background. Written in Turin, 1759. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 June 6, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1881, a late 15th-century collection of Latin astronomical treatises and tables of the 12th through 14th centuries, illustrated with six volvelles and numerous diagrams. Written in Germany, circa 1481. (BiblioPhilly, OPenn, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 May 30, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 51, a collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. Written in Syria in the 15th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 May 23, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1566, an illuminated Book of hours, use of Metz, with a calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead. Written in Metz, France, between 1375 and 1399. (BiblioPhilly, OPenn, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 May 9, curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 381, a humanist copy of Sallust's works on the history of Rome, with contemporary and later annotations, including alternate readings, some of which were incorporated into the text as corrections. Written in Italy between 1455 and 1465. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 May 2, curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 1071, The names and armes of all the nobilitie who were in England at the tyme of King William the Conqueror. This book contains coats of arms, some painted and some drawn in ink, for the monarchs and nobles of England from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth I. Written in England, 1597. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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.April 25, 2024 was "Bring Our Children To Work Day" here at Penn, and Curator Dot Porter brought her son along for Coffee With A Codex! He enjoys math, so we'll looked at three very different manuscripts about arithmetic and geometry, dating from the 12th, 15th, and 17th centuries.Unfortunately Dot was so excited about her guest host that she neglected to record the presentation, but you can find out more about the manuscripts they looked at in the records linked above.See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 18, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 3, three volumes containing paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. The manuscript was created in Japan, probably in the 19th century. (CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 11, Curator Dot Porter be joined by guest host Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian. We'll be looking at CAJS Rar Ms 25, a collection of medieval leaves in Hebrew that have been used in bindings. View records here. (CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 Tuesday, April 9 at 12pm Noon EST / 5pm GMT Curator Dot Porter was joined by SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman and Penn PhD student in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe to unbox a new manuscript purchase! Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Written in Florence in the 1470s. Watch as we "meet" our new manuscript for the first time! (Bookseller's Record, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 4, Curator Dot Porter brought out five books that illustrate and describe that most conspicuous of celestial events, the eclipse. We'll look at texts in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, ranging from the 12th through the 16th century, and see the similarities and differences between them. (CWAC Recording; individual manuscripts are listed and records linked there)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 March 28, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 19, a 14th century list of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses (France). Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 March 14, Curator Dot Porter brought out CAJS Rar Ms 166, a copy of the Pentateuch and Historical Books (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles) written in Arabic in Egypt, 1760. (OPenn, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 March 7, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 490, a collection of astronomical and astrological texts, including numerous diagrams and tables. It was written in Germany around 1450. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, IA, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 February 29, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 63, an illustrated treatise on the modes of Indian music, based on the fifth chapter of Mirza Khan's Tuḥfat al-hind. Written in Hyderabad, India, in the early 19th century. (OPenn, Internet Archive, CWAC Recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 February 22, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 723, the Panormia, a book of canon law in 8 parts by Ivo of Chartres. The manuscript is quite early, written in France in the 12th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 February 15, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 64, a collection of handmade diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a CodexJoin our mailing list for weekly updates
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 February 1, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 725, world and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. Written in Italy after 1471. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 25, Curator Dot Porter and guest host Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman brought out CAJS Rar Ms 659, the holographic manuscript of the hexadic work Shesh kenafayim. Written in the 19th century, the manuscript includes illustrations of the Cohanim's finger formations in a Cabalistic scheme. (CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 18, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1233, a breviary for use in the diocese of Cologne, probably in the Kölner Dom (cathedral). Made in the 15th century, it was used, annotated, and repaired through to the end of the 18th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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.For our first Coffee With A Codex of 2024, on January 11, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 57, a collection of astronomical texts, including a copy of a treatise on the calendar originally compiled for Pedro IV, King of Aragon, with an almanac of oppositions and conjunctions of the sun and moon and predictions of lunar and solar eclipses. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, CWAC recording)See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex.Join our mailing list for weekly updates.
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 December 14, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Coll. 713, two collages of manuscript miniatures on vellum made in the 19th century, probably from a breviary in Northern France, possibly Rouen, in the late 15th century. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 December 7, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 463, a compilation of German texts concerning astrology and medicine, written in or around Buchau, Germany, in 1443. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 30th, we had a special hour-long Coffee With A Codex looking at medical manuscripts with our colleagues at McGill University. Side-by-side, we viewed UPenn LJS 24, a 13th century medical miscellany written in Paris, and the Admont Manuscript, a new acquisition at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine containing the Commentum in Versus Aegidii de urinis, compiled possibly in Northern Italy or Southern France in the 13th or 14th centuries. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 9, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 56, an early copy of a compendium by the author of his own Logica magna, a presentation of terminist logic, including consideration of propositions and relationships between propositions and meaning. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 2, Curator Dot Porter brought out Ms. Codex 236, an illuminated Vulgate Bible written in France in the 1220s. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 October 26, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 47, 15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page. Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 October 19, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 194, a collection of geometrical texts, including material from four chapters of the Isagoge geometriae, annotated in the 12th and 15th centuries. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 October 12, Curator Dot Porter took a field trip to the Free Library of Philadelphia where she presented Widener 7, a book of hours that's full of dragons. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 October 5, Curator Dot Porter brought out LJS 215, a compendium of astrological charts, tables, treatises, and diagrams, among other contents. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Find out about upcoming Coffee With A Codex events.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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. Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 December 13, Curator Dot Porter and cataloger Amey Hutchins showed 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 December 6, Curator Dot Porter showed 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 29, Curator Dot Porter showed 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 22, Curator Dot Porter showed us LJS 419, an illustrated herbal with three styles of illustration. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 November 15 guest host Shreve Simpson showed 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. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week, Curator Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week, Curator Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week, Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week, curator Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week, curator Dot Porter brought out Oversize LJS 473, an illustrated treatise on ships and shipbuilding, written in northeastern Italy in 1464-1465. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman brought out Oversize Ms. Codex 2076, an illuminated missal written and decorated in Italy, probably between 1456 and 1482. (OPenn, CWAC Recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.This week's featured item was 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 August 17, Curator Dot Porter brought out Oversize LJS 25, 13th century Italian copies of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, translated into Latin. (OPenn, BiblioPhilly, CWAC Recording)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 August 10, Curator Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 July 6, Curator Dot Porter brought 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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.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.Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
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 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)Visit the Coffee With A Codex event page.Join the Coffee with a Codex mailing list for weekly updates.
