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On July 9, curator Dot Porter will be attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. While there she will host Coffee With A Codex from the Brotherton Research Centre, the special collections unit of the University of Leeds.
On July 16, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman, who will show us a manuscript copy of the Hebrew printed edition of "Economy of human life", claimed to be derived from Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Written between 1821 and 1822.
On July 23, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 826, an astronomical work originally written in Arabic and translated into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona, including glosses and diagrams.