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atmosphere of escapism, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Art Nouveau, whimsical Gothic, art and decor

[upennmanuscripts]

Coffee With A Codex is 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.

On April 2, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 196, a collection of three devotional works in metrical verse in Middle English and Latin. Written in England, circa 1400.

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Coffee with a Codex: Middle English Religious Poems

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each

[pmamtraveller]

Antique decorative door hinge.

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold earring, Byzantine, 6th-7th century AD

from The MET

[fiery-kitty]

Etched German hunting saber (1560s–1570s)

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Type: Hunting saber

Overall length: 93 cm

Origin: Germany

Material: steel

Technique: casting, forging, etching, engraving

[recolored-classics]

Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) by John William Waterhouse

[petaltexturedskies]

Antonio Gómez Cros, The Birth of Venus (c. 1860) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid — detail

[portalibis]

An Alchemical Miscellany from the John Rylands Library, Fol. 23r: The Unitrinum alchemical monster

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[centuriespast]

Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Vanitas Still-Life

Oil on wood, 61 x 51 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

[weepingwidar]

Martin Voigt (German, 1990) - Schwarzer Zwölfender (Black Twelve-pointer)(2020/2021)

[alrobertsphotography]

The Plym North Wood Dartmoor

[rosieandthemoon]

Wistman's Wood located at Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Photo by Neil Burnell

[megacoolkid]

These are the veins of mother nature.

[theodorafrompluto]

Circe's Palace (1907)

by Maxfield Parrish

[along-the-silkroad]

Qasr Bshir (Arabic: قصر بشير; also rendered Qasr Bashir, Qasr Bshayr, and at times Kasr Bschêr or Ksour-Bchêr) is a Roman fortlet set upon an arid, desert plateau overlooking the valley of the Wadi al-Mujib in present-day Jordan.

Erected around the year 300, during the Tetrarchy, on the site of an earlier Nabataean installation, this modest outpost is attested by an inscription bearing the Latin names castra praetori Mobeni or praetorium Mobeni. Intended to house a cavalry unit, it formed, in the 4th and 5th centuries, a link in the defensive chain known to modern historians as the limes Arabicus. Abandoned by the Romans in the 5th century, it was briefly reoccupied under the Umayyads before falling into permanent desolation.

Its solitary ruins were rediscovered by Western explorers in the late 19th century and have been the subject of archaeological study since 1982. They stand today among the best-preserved examples of frontier fortifications from the Roman Empire. Since 2001, Jordan has sought their inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, a distinction contingent upon the site’s continued restoration and protection.

[baebeylik]

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh. Sasanian, 5th Century CE.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[classic-art-favourites]

The Dance by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1856.

[venustapolis]

Bacchanale (Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1720-30)

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Dino Battaglia