Upcoming Events: Kislak Center

Mar 03

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Bookbinding Workshop: LJS 419 and Parchment Bindings

A workshop to make our own versions of MS LJS 419, a 15th century herbal from Penn's collection.

• March 3, 2026
• 5:00pm - 7:00pm
• Kislak Center Vitale II, Rm 623, 6th Floor

Mar 05

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Alphabetized Psalms in Hebrew

On March 5, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 720, Marcus Hartig's alphabetization of the Hebrew Psalms, in his 1876 manuscript.

• March 5, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Mar 05

• Concert

Open to the Public

Music in the Pavilion: Hearing Women's Voices

The Daedalus Quartet will present a program that amplifies lesser-known gems of the string quartet literature.

• March 5, 2026
• 6:15pm - 8:30pm
• Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Mar 12

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Commentaries on Aristotle by Albertus Magnus

On March 12, curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus.

• March 12, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Mar 13

• Lecture

Open to the Public

“One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color

Siân Echard explores how facsimilists of medieval illuminated manuscripts from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries thought and talked about color. Technology, imagination, and cultural expectation come together as producers and consumers of facsimiles wrestle with what a “faithful” facsimile really is.

• Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Virtual

Mar 18

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Manuscript Studies Interest Group: Social Networks

The Manuscript Studies Interest Group (MSIG) is a regular meeting for people who want to get up close and personal with a variety of handwritten objects.

• March 18, 2026
• 2:00pm - 3:00pm
• Kislak Center Vitale II, Rm 623, 6th Floor

Mar 19

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Handbook of commercial arithmetic

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.

• March 19, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Mar 23 - 26

• Lecture

Open to the Public

Common Knowers: Readers, Books, and the Making of Vernacular Knowledge in China

In this series of three lectures, Joan Judge explores the relationship between physical books and historical common knowers in early twentieth century China.

• March 23 - 26, 2026
• Hybrid event: Class of 78 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th Floor; and virtual (via Zoom)

Mar 26

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: A didactic poem concerning integers

On March 26, curator Dot Porter will bring 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.

• March 26, 2026
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online