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Today's #YearOfHours, @freelibraryofphiladelphia Lewis E 212 is a book of hours, use of Rome, ca. 1475. The large miniatures are by an artist likely trained in Paris, while the smaller ones are by an artist in the style of Tours

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That’s a wrap on 100 images from Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries From Philadelphia Libraries! http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/

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Opera, including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum; extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta; and Epistola,  Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, 1557 (Othmer MS 8)

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A divine old recipe for fortified wine.

People have been making and consuming wine for many thousands of years, probably first developed for medicinal purposes. This 15th century medieval manuscript in our collection contains the pictured recipe to fortify wine along with about 520 other recipes for various preparations. Fortified wine is distilled to make it stronger and help with preservation. The language is Latin which we roughly translated as:

A spirit of wine that is good, healthy, and much more useful than that in everyday use is made in this way.

Take however much you like of good, healthy red wine, clear and of good strength—however better [the wine] is in and of itself, so much the more useful and better [the product] will be for everything, and will be better in smell, taste, and of praiseworthy virtue.

Then put that prepared wine in a copper aludel [alembic] and distill it with a serpent [condenser] in its vessel affixed to it, then a clear water will be distilled, white, noble, and full of strength.

This manuscript is Othmer MS1, Recipes and extracts on alchemy, medicine, metal-working, cosmetics, veterinary science, agriculture, wine-making, and other subjects. Secreti Naturali. Probably written in Northwestern Italy before 1438. To view the manuscript digitally visit the Bibliophilly site.  

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This amazing marginalia exists in Lehigh’s Special Collections. Found in a 1462 handwritten copy of Virgil’s Aeneid at Lehigh University, it was written on paper in Italy. Many textual corrections, annotations and drawings appear in a slightly later hand. These notes are most likely the work of a student in a monastery. Someone really took a lot of time underlining the texts, and making small perfectly handwritten notes in the margins. They also did a magnificent amount of doodling while they studied. 

Is there an equivalent in the digital age? Do people still take paper notes when they are studying? 

This book is being digitized with many other Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Special Collections. Please check out @bibliophilly to see some of the books @luspecialcollections will be releasing high quality images of in the future. You can also follow their #bibliophilly hashtag on twitter. This is a multi-institution project, and most of the schools and manuscripts are in Philly.  This work has been made possible through a grant by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) 

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Today's #YearOfHours is @philamuseum 1945‑65‑10, a book of hours, use of Chartres, written in France, ca. 1445-1475. The seven large miniatures have been substantially retouched, especially noticeable in the faces and areas of skin.

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Today's #YearOfHours is Philadelphia Museum of Art 1967‑30‑122, a book of hours, use of Paris, written in Paris, ca. 1470. It includes some beautiful miniatures, and has been linked to the workshop of Maître François (fl. 1462-1480).

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Today's #YearOfHours is Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 95, a book of hours, use of Paris written in France in the fourth quarter of the 15th century. It contains a series of large miniatures with delightful floriated borders.

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Today's #YearOfHours is @FreeLibrary Lewis E 257, a book of hours written in the Eastern Netherlands, ca. 1505. Owned by a Franciscan sister, it includes pages of both paper and parchment. The miniature is a hand-colored metal cut. #BiblioPhilly

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Today's #YearOfHours is Lehigh MS 17, a book of Hours, use of Rome, written between 1490 and 1510. The calendar contains saints from Tours, which may mean it was written there. The miniatures are derivative of artist Jean Bourdichon #BiblioPhilly

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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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Today's #YearOfHours is @freelibraryofphiladelphia Lewis E 85, a book of hours, ca. 1430. Likely for the Use of Besançon, the calendar contains many saints local to that city. The text of the Hours of the Virgin is corrupted and only includes seven hours.

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Today's #YearOfHours is @freelibraryofphiladelphia Lewis E 96, a book of hours, use of Paris, from the last quarter of the 15th c. It contains sixteen large miniatures, and smaller ones illustrating the Gospel Lessons after John and the Suffrages. #bibliophilly

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