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
Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh
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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For #CoffeeWithACodex On April 2 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 196, a collection of three devotional works in metrical verse in Middle English and Latin. Written in England, circa 1400. #medievalsky #manuscriptsky
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If you missed this week's #CoffeeWithACodex, no fear! It's now been posted to YouTube and you can watch it at your leisure.
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 26 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will show LJS 462, a didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero). Spain, first half of the 14th century.. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/4rr6uaV
Just uploaded the recording for yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex - a handbook on commercial arithmetic! We had a real-life expert on the call who provided more information and context, which we always appreciate. Thank you, Stefano!
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 19 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social Ms. Codex 468, arithmetical tables framed by ornamental borders, followed by a brief introduction and statements of problems and their solutions. Written in Lombardy ca. 1578. #medievalsky
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 12 (12pm ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 482, a 13th century copy of commentaries on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione and Meteorologica, by the Dominican friar Albertus Magnus. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/47mgL0K
For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 5, 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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For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 26, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out a selection of manuscripts from Ethiopia, including a prayer book, an illustrated protective roll, and a liturgical book. (The mss are 19th c but still #medievalsky)
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 19, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 201, a copy of the New Testament translated into Middle English by John Wycliffe. It was made in England in the late 14th or early 15th century. #medievalsky
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Last week's #CoffeeWithACodex was very fun: a selection of fragments of books of hours! #medievalsky
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 12, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 426, a 14th century copy of the first book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia in Arabic. #medievalsky
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 5, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out a variety of fragments and leaves from books of hours, from the 15th and 16th centuries and written in France, the Netherlands, and England. #medievalsky
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on January 22 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 778, the memorbuch for the community of Austerlitz (Czech Republic), dating from early 17th century.
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For our first #CoffeeWithACodex of 2026, on January 15 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom) Curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 2265, an illuminated 15th c. psalter arranged in eight sections. #medievalsky
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The recording of yesterday's #CoffeeWithACodex is now up on YouTube!
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on December 11, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 16, a volume comprising Books 25 to 28 of the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais. It was written in France, probably Paris, circa 1400. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/3Xt3Zs8
For #CoffeeWithACodex on December 4 (12pm Noon, on Zoom), South Asian Studies Librarian Jef Pierce will bring out a beautifully illustrated Sanskrit manuscript written sometime between 1700 and 1850.
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on November 13 (12pm ET, Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 101, the oldest codex in Philadelphia! It includes a translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione by Boethius. Written in France ca. 850 and ca. 1000. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/3JvfKuI
For #CoffeeWithACodex on November 6 (12pm ET, Zoom), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 2324, a Flemish illuminated book of hours including 6 full-page arched miniatures and 15 historiated initials on gold grounds. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/48JljzY
For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 30 (Noon ET, on Zoom), we'll bring out LJS 266, a collection of genealogical and chronicle material in Middle French, written in France between 1440 and 1460. #medievalsky #cwac
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 23 (Noon ET, on Zoom), we'll bring out CAJS Rar Ms. 534, a manuscript written by Moses Gomez de Mesquita documenting his administration and institution of prayer customs for the Sephardim in England.. #medievalsky #cwac
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For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 16, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will visit @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social where she'll join Librarian Elizabeth Fuller for a look at MS 1004/29, a mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book. #medievalsky #cwac
Register here: https://bit.ly/4ohnEqu
For #CoffeeWithACodex on October 9, Curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 736, a collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen. It was written in Italy in 1475. #medievalsky #cwac
Register here: https://bit.ly/3Kvn0H0
For #CoffeeWithACodex (Zoom, 12pm Noon ET) On October 2, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1057, an illuminated Ferial psalter containing the psalms, antiphons, hymns, short chapter readings, and other prayers. It was written in Trento c. 1350.
Register here: https://bit.ly/4pAYgx6
For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 25 (Zoom, 12pm Noon ET), Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 394, the second volume of a 10th-century dictionary of the Arabic language. It was written in Egypt or Syria in the 14th century.
Register here: https://bit.ly/46PW7X2
For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 18 (on Zoom, at 12pm ET), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 141, an illuminated prayer book with a processional, and a prayer added in German. Written in Germany ca. 1450. #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/4g19SFx
For #CoffeeWithACodex on September 11 (on Zoom, at Noon ET), Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 491, a manuscript of the Yom Kippur Maḥzor for the rite of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, written in Provence, 1663.
Register here: https://bit.ly/41XvkFm
There's still time to register for today's #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm Noon EST on Zoom) - and have a close look at a fantastic 15th century Italian herbal! All are welcome.
