Coffee with a Codex: Two Notated Liturgical Books, a joint event with the University of Rochester

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.

To welcome you to the 2026-2027 academic year, we started on September 3rd with a special one-hour event featuring two large liturgical books with musical notation. Curator Dot Porter was joined by Anna Siebach-Larsen, Ph.D., Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and Koller-Collins Center for English Studies at the University of Rochester. Dot had Ms. Codex 1233, a notated breviary written in Cologne around 1450 and used continuously through the 18th century, and Anna brought out a notated gradual. (Ms. Codex 1233: OPenn, BiblioPhilly, Internet Archive, Digital Collections, CWAC Recording) (Rochester cod. e2: Digitized)

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