Coffee with a Codex: Letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great

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 17, PhD Candidate in Political Science and SIMS Graduate Student Fellow Abdulaziz Alotaibi brought out LJS 459, an early copy of the long form of a popular treatise presented as a letter from Aristotle to Alexander the Great. Topics covered include statecraft, astronomy, astrology, magic, and medicine. It was written in Iraq between 1193 and 1211. (OPenn, Internet Archive, BiblioPhilly)

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