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Coffee With a Codex: Magic & Medicine (LJS 470 & 471)
https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/coffee-with-a-codex-magic-medicine-ljs-470-471/
Published: May 25, 2026 12:19
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 9 we…
Bees and Biblical Studies
https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/bees-and-biblical-studies/
Published: May 20, 2026 15:34
I had the privilege of processing the Solomon L. Skoss papers, a collection which documents the work of Skoss, a professor of Arabic at Dropsie College. Before he obtained his Arabic and religious studies education, Skoss lived in California and worked…
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 55 – L’image del monde (Video Orientation)
Published: May 18, 2026 12:14
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 55 – L’image del monde. Copy of the version in verse (written continuously without line breaks, like prose) of Gautier’s encyclopedic…
Archives: History in Your Hands (An Illustrated Pamphlet)
Published: May 13, 2026 15:39
What is an archive? What is an archival collection? What do archivists do? Unless you’ve spent some quality time in reading rooms, these ideas might feel a bit vague and nebulous. But we would never want a lack of clarity about archives to be anyone’s…
Recipes and Recycling: A Dutch Ream Wrapper in an English Recipe Book
Published: May 13, 2026 15:31
By Aylin Malcolm and Margaret C. Maurer Penn MS Codex 251 is a slim eighteenth-century recipe book with a distinctive binding made of thick, durable paper. The binding’s exterior is red with a stamped gold floral design, while the bluish-grey interior is…
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 48 – Instrumenta feudorum… (Video Orientation)
Published: May 11, 2026 12:08
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientationto the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 48 – Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone : cum privilegio comitatus in personam Don Ioannis et fratrum ac descendentium de Faelis.…
Signe Wilkinson: Editorial Cartoonist and Philadelphia’s “Attack Quaker”
https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/signe-wilkinson-and-the-art-of-editorial-cartoons/
Published: May 6, 2026 13:00
In Spring 2026, editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson donated her drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives. Wilkinson is best known for her work with the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as for being…
Coffee With a Codex: Canon Law (Ms. Codex 1059)
https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/coffee-with-a-codex-canon-law-ms-codex-1059/
Published: May 4, 2026 13:33
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 2, 2022,…
In the Spotlight: Maria Uytendale Hendrickson Baird Family papers
Published: May 1, 2026 15:37
Recently I finished processing a collection of family papers primarily from the years 1900 to 1940 of the Baird family of Philadelphia, passionate patrons and participants in arts and culture. The materials mostly belonged to the matriarch, Maria Uytendale…