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Pergamena Presentations at SIMS
On September 11, 2013, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies welcomed Stephen Meyer from Pergamena parchment makers (http://www.pergamena.net/). The Meyer family has been making leather and...
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Penn Parchment Project: Sampling Process
Since the summer, the University of Pennsylvania library has been taking samples of many of its manuscripts to send to the University of York for collagen analysis. By analyzing the collagen in the...
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The Dispersal of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
(Reblogging from Mapping Books) “Today I’m teaching a workshop on using “screen scraping” in the digital humanities. No workshop is really useful without practical examples so last week I decided to...
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Manuscripts: The Archaeolozoology of Animal Skin, April 10, NOON
Please mark your calendars for this upcoming lecture on Thursday, April 10, at NOON in the Class of ’78 Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th Floor Van Pelt Library. The presenter is Matthew Collins, professor...
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Volvelles: LJS 64, Illustrations to Peurbach, p. 4, Theorica motus orbis...
Over the next several months, we’ll be creating Vines (short six-second videos) and animated gifs of all the moving volvelles in our copy of Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach’s Novae theoricae...
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Visualizing the Construction of Manuscripts, through Collation and Video...
It’s been a month now since the fabulous DigiPal IV Symposium, and I’ve been meaning to share the video of my own contribution to that event since I returned to Penn in early September. My talk is...
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Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for...
A version of this talk was presented as the keynote for the annual meeting of the Association of College and Research Libraries – Delaware Valley Chapter, in Philadelphia PA on November 6, 2014. Thank...
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Manuscript Road Trip: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Originally posted on Manuscript Road Trip: The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r As we head north out of Baltimore on I-95, we’ll cross the Delaware River and head into...
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Medieval Apps
Originally posted on medievalbooks: How about this for a truism: a book is a book, and something that is not a book is not a book. This post will knock your socks off if you are inclined to affirm...
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Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition
The following post is the written version of a presentation that Christoph Flüeler, Director of e-codices and Professor at the University of Fribourg, presented at the 50th International Congress on...
View ArticleMAA 2019: Call for Digital Workshops
Dear medievalists, As you consider your submissions for MAA 2019, I hope you will take note that you may propose a “poster, paper, full session, or workshop that explores the role and uses of digital...
View ArticleAnd that’s how we roll… — Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis
Genealogical rolls showing the direct descent of English kings from Adam were a major (and blatant) propaganda tool during the Wars of the Roses in later fifteenth-century England. 332 more words via...
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Ms. Codex 1057: Ferial Psalter
Welcome to 2022! For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 12, we brought out Ms. Codex 1057, a ferial psalter. Ferial psalters are those that, in addition to the text of the 150 psalms, include...
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Ms. Codex 761: Cosmographies
For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, we took a look at Ms. Codex 761, an Italian collection of four ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation, written ca. 1500. It’s written...
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Forgeries
For Coffee With A Codex on Wednesday, January 26, Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman showed us several forgeries and reproductions from Kislak collections. LJS 102, ff. 1v-2r The first...
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