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By popular demand (it's us, we're demanding!), here is the inside view of LJS 361, a 14th century manuscript in its original binding, written in Italy. The manuscript contains the opening and closing sections of astronomical and astrological tables on either side of a remnant of commentaries on gospel and epistle readings.

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Access '[Astronomical and astrological tables].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.

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This Missal (Texts for the Mass), written in Gothic textualis script, contains a few large red and blue initials with penwork, and a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary below on the left and John the Evangelist on the right. Written in northern Italy, between 1375 and 1425; Crucifixion miniature possibly added in southern Germany in the second half of the 15th century. The binding is very early; it may even be original (UPenn Ms. Codex 2053)

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Today's #YearOfHours is @freelibraryofphiladelphia Lewis E 118, a book of Hours, use of Rome, written in Siena ca. 1470. The binding is worn but apparently original with original silver clasps, and it contains three miniatures painted by Liberale da Verona.

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With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 del

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By popular demand (on TikTok), here is the inside view of LJS 361, a 14th century Italian manuscript in its original binding.

Online: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951500353503681

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This is LJS 385, a collection of classical Latin school texts in various hands, written in Italy, ca. 1500. It's bound in the original wooden boards, showing compass trials and geometric and doodled gouging, with a leather spine Online: bit.ly/3PPEUBG

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ON the verge of the reformation, an incunabula annotated, and owned by A Humanist/proto-Reformer....1480 Zainer, Compendium theologicae veritatis [with table by Thomas Dorniberg] Annotated by Jacob Hartlieb active 1493-1513.  

 438J  Ripelin, Hugo 1205-1270 (formerly ascribed to Albertus Magnus)  IV438J   Ripelin, 1478.  https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia00233000     Compendium theologicae veritatis [with table by Thomas Dorniberg]  Ulm: Johann Zainer, ca. 1478-80). [not after 1480]  [CIBN dates this as not after 1480 from the date of rubrication in Württemberg LB copy (cf. Amelung, Frühdruck)] furthermore a copy in the…

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A hidden gem: Bede’s De Arte Metrica

Photograph taken by Worcester Archives Service on behalf of Worcester Cathedral (UK) Mention a manuscript to someone, and they are likely to think about scrolls, charter…

Fascinating blog post about this Worcester Cathedral manuscript, which is a collection of miscellaneous texts written in the tenth century and in its original binding (original medieval bindings are rare; tenth-century bindings are almost unheard of in my experience). I think this is Worcester, Cathedral Library, Q.5 [=W] (also described in the PDF catalog here).

While Anglo Saxon Bede is perhaps best known for his Ecclesiastical History, he was in fact a scholar in many other areas, too. De Arte Metrica focuses on grammar and meter and was originally written by Bede in the 8th century, though the Cathedral’s copy was written out in the 10th. As a piece of bibliographical history, the Cathedral’s copy is quite special. Bound with several other manuscripts about grammar, including Bede’s De Schematibus et Tropis and several unattributed samples of verse and other guides to meter, its binding also dates from the 10th century. There is evidence of later repair, and it seems likely this is due to some severe water damage sustained by the volume – the parchment in the latter half is heavily stained and has been repaired by a skilled conservator. It is unusual for a manuscript of this age still to be in an original binding, though, revealing the good care of the Cathedral monks and librarians throughout the centuries. The volume is believed to have been in the Cathedral Library since the 13th century at the very latest (though it is likely to have been earlier), and bears the rather handsome 1530 Worcester ownership plate on the front cover. While it’s easy to think of this as a work by Bede, it is notable that the spine makes no reference to him and is simply labelled Grammatica. It is common for bound manuscripts to have a general title, or occasionally no title at all, on the spine. Binding would have been expensive, and it was important to be cost effective by including several pieces in one volume.