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We are frequently asked why we don鈥檛 wear gloves in our manuscript videos. In today's #ManuscriptBasics, curator Dot Porter @leoba will do her best to explain. If you have a question, ask, and maybe we'll make a video to answer!
A couple of weird little guys are chilling out in the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 326v, a 13th century illuminated Bible.
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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
Welcome to June! Every month in 2026 we give you the gift of calendar pages from several of Penn's books of hours - illustrating the variety of books we have in our collection. Enjoy!
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 June 4, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 2141, a 16th century collection of approximately 20 prayers with calligraphic ornamentation, including prayers for the morning, forgiveness of sins, comfort and help, the sermon, receiving the Eucharist, and the evening meal; and to the Holy Trinity. Probably written in Nuremberg, Germany, no later than 1579.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
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 May 28 curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 869, a collection of treatises, bullae, and regulations of Franciscan interest, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Bonaventure, and Saint Bernard and bullae of Eugene IV and Nicholas IV. Written in Italy between 1460 and 1510. We looked at this one on April 30 and only scratched the surface, so we are going in again for a deeper dive.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
If you want to watch our first visit with this manuscript, you can see it here:
If you missed our second look at this 15th century Franciscan miscellany, complete with a structural model built using VCEditor, you can watch it now on YouTube!
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 May 28 curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 869, a collection of treatises, bullae, and regulations of Franciscan interest, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Bonaventure, and Saint Bernard and bullae of Eugene IV and Nicholas IV. Written in Italy between 1460 and 1510. We looked at this one on April 30 and only scratched the surface, so we are going in again for a deeper dive.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
If you want to watch our first visit with this manuscript, you can see it here:
Although this page has several illuminations identified as Saint John, the animal in the top margin appears to be a ram. It's definitely not an eagle (which is the animal that John is associated with). The book is Ms. Codex 724 f. 326v, a 13th century illuminated Bible.
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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
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.
馃敆:
Access '[Astronomical and astrological tables].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
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 May 14, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman to show you a very special and exciting new acquisition! What is it? We can't tell you, but we can promise that no matter what kind of manuscripts you're interested in, you will want to see this! One clue? ZODIAC MAN. See you there!
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
GUYS I AM SERIOUS, IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ATTENDING COFFEE WITH A CODEX BUT HAVEN'T, THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT TO SEE.
(It will, of course, be recorded, so you can watch it later)
The word is out... tomorrow's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom and open to all) is a 15th century folding medical and astrological almanac, in Middle English. Described and transcribed in the 19th century, it was thought to be lost. But we have it now, and we'll share it with you tomorrow.
Hey look it's a 15th century Middle English folded medical and astrological almanac, long thought lost but now found and in our collection!
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 May 21, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1531, a book of hours, use of Rome, printed ca. 1507 in Paris by Guillaume Anabat for Gilles and Germain Hardouyn, followed by a few manuscript pages containing alternate and additional prayers. Illuminated initials have been added by hand.
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An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th century astronomical and mathematical manuscript written in Italy: At some point somebody added a new bifolium. It鈥檚 clearly different from the rest of the manuscript, written in a later hand, and the parchment sheet is smaller.
馃敆:
Access 'Algorismus ; Tractatum de sphaera.' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th century astronomical and mathematical manuscript written in Italy: How do scribes deal with a hole in the parchment? This 13th century scribe outlined the hole in red on one side, and simply wrote around it.
馃敆:
Access 'Algorismus ; Tractatum de sphaera.' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
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 May 14, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman to show you a very special and exciting new acquisition! What is it? We can't tell you, but we can promise that no matter what kind of manuscripts you're interested in, you will want to see this! One clue? ZODIAC MAN. See you there!
Register here:
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
GUYS I AM SERIOUS, IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ATTENDING COFFEE WITH A CODEX BUT HAVEN'T, THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT TO SEE.
(It will, of course, be recorded, so you can watch it later)
The word is out... tomorrow's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST, on Zoom and open to all) is a 15th century folding medical and astrological almanac, in Middle English. Described and transcribed in the 19th century, it was thought to be lost. But we have it now, and we'll share it with you tomorrow.
Next in our #SIMSseries on LJS 26, a 13th c. astronomical and mathematical manuscript, what we鈥檝e all been waiting for: diagrams! There are several, a couple illustrating eclipses, and diagrams of an astrolabe and a quadrant. Written in Italy.
馃敆:
Access 'Algorismus ; Tractatum de sphaera.' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
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 May 14, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nicholas Herman to show you a very special and exciting new acquisition! What is it? We can't tell you, but we can promise that no matter what kind of manuscripts you're interested in, you will want to see this! One clue? ZODIAC MAN. See you there!
Register here:
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each
GUYS I AM SERIOUS, IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ATTENDING COFFEE WITH A CODEX BUT HAVEN'T, THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT TO SEE.
(It will, of course, be recorded, so you can watch it later)
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Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463
BnF, Fran莽ais 50, fol. 256v
Over the next week or so, we鈥檒l be doing a #SIMSseries on this 13th century Italian copy of works by Johannes de Sacro Bosco (UPenn LJS 26). The first text is a treatise on the fundamentals of arithmetic (titled Algorismus), followed by a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth divided into climactic zones at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe.
The first view of LJS 26 may be surprising! The binding is modern, but the manuscript definitely is not.
馃敆:
Access 'Algorismus ; Tractatum de sphaera.' through the Penn Libraries catalog.
