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Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy Manuscript in Rochester, NY
For Coffee With A Codex on June 11, curator Dot Porter attended a workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. While there, she visited the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and brought out their 15th c. copy of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World).
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Hosted by: SIMS and Kislak Center
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 11, curator Dot Porter attended a workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. While there, she visited the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and brought out their 15th c. copy of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World), which he originally wrote in the 13th century. Sacrobosco's work followed the Ptolemaic model of the universe with the Earth as the center of the universe. The Cary's copy of the manuscript is also a palimpsest, in which there are traces of an earlier text that was erased. The book is a gift of Irene Conley and Ethel Harris. (CWAC Recording)