Author: dotporter
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 761 – Cosmographies. (Coffee With A Codex)
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 January 26, 2022, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman showed us several forgeries from…
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 223 – Questiones logicales … [etc.] (Video Orientation)
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 223, a collection of Aristotelian works and other philosophical works, including works on logic; short tracts (some incomplete) on Aristotle’s Categories, De interpretatione, and Posterior analytics; and several works on Aristotle’s Physics (including commentaries by Antonius Carpentier…
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 37 – Euclid’s Elements (Arabic) [اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس]. (Video Orientation)
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 37, an incomplete abridgment in Arabic of Euclid’s Elements, written on paper. The first 6 leaves (f. i-5) are replacements, written on different paper in a later hand. The replacement title page gives the incorrect title Taḥrīr…
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 761 – Cosmographies. (Coffee With A Codex)
Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak Curator Dot Porter 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. We meet over Zoom on Wednesdays at 12pm ET / 5pm GMT /…
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 43 – Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih. (Video Orientation)
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 43, a collection in 4 sections of rubāʻīyāt (quatrains) and qaṣāʼid (lyric poems). Sparse marginalia, some in the text language and some later notes in English.. The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 16th century, and…
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Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 46 – Herbal. (Video Orientation)
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 46, an Italian illustrated herbal, with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco added less than a century later. Plant names in Latin, with a few words in Italian; texts about Morocco in…
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