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Sep 12
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: James DePreist and Marian Anderson

Head of the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library & Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center Liza Vick will bring out a poetry chapbook by conductor James DePreist, paired with a handwritten letter from DePreist to his aunt, contralto Marian Anderson.

  • September 12, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Marian Anderson & James DePreist
Sep 12
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

Art and Action in Movable Books and Paper: from the Collection of Ellen G. K. Rubin

To celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions, Ellen G. K. Rubin, better known as “The Popuplady” for her amazing collection of pop-up and movable books, will give a talk drawing on her forty years of collecting.

  • September 12, 2024
  • 4:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Illustration of an open book with "the pop-up lady" written as if it's rising above the page
Sep 13
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

Emma Bell Miles: The Author Who Broke My Heart

Regan Kladstrup shares the heartbreaking story behind the creation of author Emma Bell Miles' The Spirit of the Mountains.

  • September 13, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
Watercolor painting of a mother and child; text reads Grandmothers and Sons, There's more marries than keeps cold meat.
Sep 19
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy in Hebrew

Two of the most popular, frequently copied and translated astronomical texts of the Middle Ages were Joannes de Sacro Bosco's Sphaera mundi and Georg von Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum. On September 19, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 42, a 16th century commentary on a Hebrew translation of Sphaera mundi, followed by a commentary on a Hebrew translation of Theoricae novae planetarum.

  • September 19, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
Page from LJS 42 showing a diagram
Sep 20
  • Lecture
Open to the Public

Artifice, Latinity, and the Social Lives of Medieval Books

Seamus Dwyer, Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Smith College, explores the concepts of Latinity and artifice in late medieval English manuscript cultures and considers new avenues for understanding how medieval scribes and readers intended their books to achieve highly social, communicative ends in the wider world.

  • Friday, September 20, 2024, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  • Virtual
Page from a 14th-century copy of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae
Sep 26
  • Workshop
Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Ritual Dagger

More information tbd, but on September 26 Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, will present on a new acquisition: a ritual dagger.

  • September 26, 2024
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm
  • Online
photo of ritual dagger
Sep 27
  • Symposium
Open to the Public

Petrarca / is again / in sight

In conjunction with the evening’s Music in the Pavilion concert, this symposium will cover the recently-acquired manuscript of Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta andTriumphi.

  • September 27, 2024
  • 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Illustration of the letter V. The letter is in gold with blue decorations outside and a figure gesturing from inside
Sep 27
  • Concert
Open to the Public

Music in the Pavilion: Petrarch in Renaissance Music

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, honors the 650th anniversary of Italian poet Petrarch’s passing with a concert of Renaissance vocal and instrumental music.

  • September 27, 2024
  • 6:15pm - 9:00pm
  • Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Six musicians dressed in black in front of an ornate stage