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Coffee with a Codex: Alphabetized Psalms in Hebrew

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

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 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.

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Coffee with a Codex: Alphabetized Psalms in Hebrew

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

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Coffee with a Codex: Prayer Book & Processional

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

For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 18, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 141, an illuminated prayer book with a processional, and a prayer added in German. Written in Germany ca. 1450.

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Coffee with a Codex: Prayer Book & Processional

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

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Coffee with a Codex: Italian Herbal

We'll celebrate the start of the semester by bringing out a favorite, first introduced to CWAC in 2022. On September 4, Curator Dot Porter w

For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 4, Curator Dot Porter will bring out a favorite, first introduced to CWAC in 2022: LJS 419, a 15th century Italian herbal containing a variety of illustrations, accompanied by notes on medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.

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.

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Coffee with a Codex: Italian Herbal

We'll celebrate the start of the semester by bringing out a favorite, first introduced to CWAC in 2022. On September 4, Curator Dot Porter w

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Hello! I'm a big fan of the coffee with a codex format. Do you know of any other institutions hosting similar manuscript sharing events that are online and open to the public?

Sorry, I'm not sure when you sent this because I don't check my messages frequently, so I apologize for making you wait.

I know of one! Temple University (our neighbor in Philadelphia) has "A Look At A Book," which like CWAC is 30 minutes (actually 25) show-and-tell with a book (not necessarily a manuscript). It's a collaboration between Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Art History Department and the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Temple University Libraries, and is organized by Joseph Kopta, PhD, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Art History, and Kimberly Tully, Curator of Rare Books, SCRC. I know both Joe and Kim, they are delightful, and so is A Look At A Book. So if you want more like CWAC check them out! (The schedule for 2025-2026 hasn't been posted yet but there are recordings for past events linked from this page)

I think other institutions do occasional CWAC-like events, and of course most have videos on social media, but besides Temple I don't know of any regular, ongoing events. If anyone who sees this has similar events to share, please do, and I'll boost them.

(If you want to know more about the intent behind CWAC you can read this blog post which is based on a paper I presented recently at the SHARP Conference)

Coffee With A Codex as an Online Community - Dot Porter Digital

This paper was presented via video at the SHARP Conference in July 2025. The video is posted here, followed by a transcript. A Q&A follows t

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NO COFFEE WITH A CODEX THIS THURSDAY! We'll be back with a Persian Romance next week (Thursday, May 29, 12pm Noon ET, on Zoom). Check out our schedule at our website:

Coffee with a Codex

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

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Coffee with a Codex: Early Texts on Astronomy

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

April 24 is the annual "Bring Our Children to Work Day" at Penn, and for #CoffeeWithACodex Curator Dot Porter will be joined by her son Andrew. He's keen on astronomy, so they'll bring out three of our early astronomy texts: LJS 26, a 13th century Italian copy of Sacrobosco's Tractatum de sphaera; LJS 216, a 13th century French copy of the same text; and LJS 384, a 12th century German copy of De philosophia mundi by William of Conches.

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.

Register here:

Coffee with a Codex: Early Texts on Astronomy

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

[pienaud]

Feb 9, 2025

hey

last night, i dreamed abt yu, again

we met each other, we knew each other

but we act like stranger haha

…

yu were with her, not me

yu were willing to know her, not me

yu got to know her, not me

yu also drive her home, not me

that is another girl, not me

someone, not me

yu did it, i saw it, yu knew i had knew it

but that was it, things still

i did not move, yu did not change

fkkkkk even in the dream, that actually how we are haha

but..

i did not know what was at the end n i was also glad that i was not dreaming to the end

yu know why?

this make me hurt, i can feel it … truly n literally

i am

audrey.

[pienaud]

Jan 11th 2025 - 1:25 am

i miss yu

i mean when i say it out n write down

its…so much