Sometimes manuscripts only survive in pieces. Here is an example: a 15th c. breviary used to make collages in the 1800s. An interesting historical example, but not something you would want to to today! (UPenn Ms. Coll. 713)
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A blast from the past! Back in 2013, Penn English Department PhD Candidate Marie Turner and Manuscripts Cataloger Amey Hutchins scrolled through our copy of a genealogical chronicle written to celebrate the reign of Edward IV of England (UPenn Ms. Roll 1066) #medievalsky
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 23 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 688, a small, delicate book of hours from 16th century Italy. #medievalsky
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This is Ms. Codex 1057, a Ferial Psalter - that is, it contains prayers in addition to psalms. It was copied in Italy, probably Trento, around 1350, although the binding is not original - it’s a late 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin with two brass clasps.
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Observing Collections a Micron at a Time: A Tools of the Trade Post by Megan Zins, Library of Congress 📜
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 16 (12 Noon ET, on Zoom), Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 720, Marcus Hartig's alphabetization of the Hebrew Psalms, in his 1876 manuscript.
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You're welcome! I hope they are helpful for your student
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Friends, for a student:
does anyone know where a student might find digitized commonplace books & scrapbooks? All collections/suggestions welcome—she just needs more examples for a project she’s working on
And a similar search for scrapbooks - fewer of these and fewer digitized, but some of them look neat find.library.upenn.edu?sort=publica...
Penn has some digitized manuscript commonplace books, here's a search of our OPAC. The digitized ones are clearly noted: find.library.upenn.edu?f%5Baccess_f...
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But who among us hasn’t spent hours watching the light play off of an illuminated initial? Ms. Codex 1056 is a Book of Hours for the use of Rouen, and this initial O on fol. 18v is a particularly good example of the kinds of decorative labor that went into it. #medievalsky
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Did you miss yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex or did it miss you? Either way, it's now on YouTube so you can watch it at your leisure.
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He rocks in the treetops all day long! No treetop? Our rockin' robin* will accept the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 324v, a 13th century illuminated Bible. #medievalsky
*probably not actually a robin
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How to make learning math fun? Frame your arithmetical tables with ornamental borders! In this 16th c. handbook of commercial arithmetic, written in Lombardy, the charts include addition, subtraction, and four different methods of multiplication. (UPenn Ms. Codex 468)
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Uh oh, @guardian, you should take a hint from a lesson @npr learned years ago. If you're going to use a "historical" image in a piece, make sure it actually relates to the history you're talking about. Your Black Death (plague) image is actually leprosy! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... 🗃️
For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky
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Popped onto twitter to look at some art by Japanese artists who haven’t gravitated over here and the second I accidentally stepped out of the doujinshi bubble every post was just people talking about one thing or another and responses full of “Grok what is this? What does this mean?”
If you weren't able to make this week's #CoffeeWithACodex featuring a collection of Middle English devotional works, you can watch it now on YouTube!
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“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
This is so, so well-articulated.
Hand assembled book from the 1626 printing.
The BookFish Returneth!
Inspired by a post by @jessemlocker.bsky.social, my #NewberryLibrary Edible Book Festival entry today channels this well-nigh unbelievable story about a fish found in 1626 with a book inside it. A Big Fish portending ALL sorts of things. Here's the source material. 📚🐟🧵 1/?
The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky
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As curator Nicholas Herman says, "Really, how many books of hours do you need? And sometimes it's just not worth the cost to maintain ratty old books with no aesthetic value." The sale is today only, so place your orders now! Check out the list here: tinyurl.com/SIMSmss4cheap
SIMS Flash manuscript sale! In an effort to create efficiencies in our collecting practices and to clear some space off the shelves, SIMS is selling off duplicate manuscript copies of texts, including bibles and books of hours among others, as well as manuscripts of generally low production quality
