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This is incredible!! I love the in-progress shots! Thank you for tagging us on this!

a lil something from the commission stack

I was asked to include a beefy angel and swole nuns

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For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 11, Curator Dot Porter was joined by guest host Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian. We looked at CAJS Rar Ms 25, a collection of medieval leaves in Hebrew that have been used in bindings.

Watch the full 30-minute recording on YouTube:

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For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 18 (12pm Noon EST on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 3, three volumes containing paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. The manuscript was created in Japan, probably in the 19th century.

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Manuscript Monday: LJS 429 - Natural Philosophy (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 429, an illustrated introduction to natural philosophy, supposedly according to the principles of Isidore of Seville, but in fact representing later Aristotelian and Thomist thought and opposing the followers of Duns Scotus,…

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Four hands are better than two!!

WE UNBOXED THE PETRARCH

Watch!

It's a c. 1470s copy of Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Made in the Workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. More information in the sales description.

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WE UNBOXED THE PETRARCH

Watch!

It's a c. 1470s copy of Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Made in the Workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. More information in the sales description.

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From troubles of the world I turn to ducks.

- F. W. Harvey

An arguable blue duck flies low in the bottom margin of f. 230r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century Bible. #drollerydonnerstag

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A beautiful purple-blue iris waves at us from page 190 of Ms. Codex 3, three volumes of paintings or hand-colored sketches depicting mainly insects, fish and other marine life, birds and flowers. We don't know much about these books except that they were made in Japan, probably in the 19th century. If you know more, let us know!

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~ Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft.

Artist/Maker: Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died ca. 1479, active about 1451-1479)

Date: ca. 1469

Place of origin: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink.

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And I even got a photo during the real thing! Only 88% totality in Philadelphia, but it got a little dim and chilly.

Today we're celebrating the eclipse with diagrams from several manuscripts from the Schoenberg Collection! They range from the 13th to the 16th centuries, and include texts in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. You'll see, however, that the diagrams in the different books are quite similar to each other!

To watch the complete 30-minute video, go to YouTube:

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Today we're celebrating the eclipse with diagrams from several manuscripts from the Schoenberg Collection! They range from the 13th to the 16th centuries, and include texts in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. You'll see, however, that the diagrams in the different books are quite similar to each other!

To watch the complete 30-minute video, go to YouTube:

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Manuscript Monday: LJS 427 - [Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]. (Video Orientation)

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 427, Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia. Some marginal…

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For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, April 11, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter be joined by guest host Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian. We'll be looking at CAJS Rar Ms 25, a collection of medieval leaves in Hebrew that have been used in bindings.

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Last week on #CoffeeWithACodex, we took a look at Ms. Codex 19, a 14th century list of rents due to one Ithier Bonea, seignor des Brousses, an area of France over which he was a landowner. Most of the listings of tenants are by parish, occasionally by town. In this compilation, Curator Dot Porter points out some of the notable aspects of the manuscript. Follow the link to watch the whole 30 minute video.

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PETRARCH UNBOXING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED!! We'll meet on Tuesday, April 9th at 12pm Noon EDT (aka our usual Coffee With A Codex meeting time, just on Tuesday). If you have attended CWAC in the past you'll already have the link and password, if you haven't you should register using the link in the first post up there ☝️☝️☝️

For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, March 21, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom) Curator Dot Porter will be joined by SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman and Penn PhD student in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe to unbox a new manuscript purchase! Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Written in Florence in the 1470s. You'll get to see it for the first time at the same time we do!

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OF COURSE I'm touching it with my bare hands! It's not like I would be touching it with my bare feet.

(Why I'm not wearing gloves)

LJS 64 is a book of diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian Georg von Peurbach, who is considered one of the first modern astronomers. He was particularly interested in simplifying the Ptolemic system (which places the Earth in the center of the solar system). The diagrams in the book demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion.

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LJS 64 was recently featured in #CoffeeWithACodex, you can watch the complete 30 minute video here:

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For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, April 4, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter will bring out five books that illustrate and describe that most conspicuous of celestial events, the eclipse. We'll look at texts in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, ranging from the 12th through the 16th century, and see the similarities and differences between them.

Update: Recording of this event is now on YouTube!