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Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with a curator and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn’s collections. Each week we’ll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. On March 2, 2022, we looked at Ms. Codex 1053, a 13th century English Bible […]

Introducing the Gratz-Mandell Collection of Jewish Music Eric Mandell’s vast collection of Jewish music resources has been graciously loaned in perpetuity by Gratz College enriching the holdings of Penn Libraries. It has turned them into one of the major repositories of archival and rare materials on Jewish music on a world-wide scale. To showcase the […]

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 25 – Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin editions by the Dominican William of Moerbeke, probably translated from the Greek by Grosseteste. This text is followed by the first page of the ...

Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s Ms. Codex 16 – Guerino Meschino. Romance about Guerino, son of an Italian prince. Separated from his parents as a baby and deprived of his royal status (dubbed “Meschino,” “Wretched”), he embarks on a number of chivalric adventu...

Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with a curator and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn’s collections. Each week we’ll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. On February 23, 2022, we looked at LJS 195 and Ms. Codex 2074, two medical […]