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Recent: Wise Men Fished Here - A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
Recent: Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
On exhibit: Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit: Musical Fund Society at 200: Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020
On exhibit: Early Medical and Dental Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr
On exhibit: Manuscriptistan: Photographs by Anthony M Cerulli
On exhibit: Red Etchings: Soviet Book Illustrations from the Collection of Monroe Price
On exhibit: Marian Anderson on the World Stage
Upcoming: Writing across Genres: African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection
Upcoming: Making the Rennaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries
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![Ms. Codex 1904 al-Qurʼān / [القرآن], fol. 50r, Decoration: Example of illuminated sūrah heading](/sites/default/files/2019-10/penn_mscodex1904.jpg "From our blog: A Small, Maltese Qurʾān")
From our blog: A Small, Maltese Qurʾān. Ms. Codex 1904 al-Qurʼān / [القرآن], fol. 50r, Decoration: Example of illuminated sūrah heading
Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries
From our blog: Blue Skies to Red Seas. Cover of Umi to Sora, October 1935
“Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away” Episode 10, LJS 102 binding- Penn video series compares medieval manuscripts to Star Wars codices.
See what we are cooking, follow us on Instagram: Pearl's Kitchen, 1974. Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks
Our new 2020 wall calendar Vibrant Wonders: A Year Celebrating the Illustrations of Ashley Bryan will be available in Mid-October
Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…
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