Coffee with a Codex: Early Texts on Astronomy

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 24 was the annual "Bring Our Children to Work Day" at Penn, and Curator Dot Porter was joined by her son Andrew and SIMS Fellow Michael Zellmann-Rohrer. Andrew is keen on astronomy, so we brought out three of our early astronomy texts: LJS 26, a 13th century Italian copy of Sacrobosco's Tractatum de sphaera; LJS 216, a 13th century French copy of the same text; and LJS 384, a 12th century German copy of De philosophia mundi by William of Conches. (LJS 26: OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive; LJS 216:  OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive; LJS 384: OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive)

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