Here is a bit of a video facsimile - a cover-to-cover page-turning video without commentary - of our 15th century Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, which has some lovely illumination. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1056) #medievalsky Record: https://bit.ly/4m0SpP7 Complete Video Facsimile: https://bit.ly/3S5xOKI

Did you miss our #CoffeeWithACodex featuring fragments of books of hours and introducing the Frankenbook? You can watch it now on YouTube! youtu.be/nZRlS4HzeG0

Coffee with a Codex: Fragments and Franken-Books of Hours

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For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 30, @leoba.bsky.social will show us several fragments from books of hours, and will talk about a relevant creative project she has been working on: the Frankenbook of Hours. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4wglY4R

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Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

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Today's manuscript is a copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/44BxXxN

If you missed last week's #CoffeeWithACodex featuring a 13th century astronomical text + diagrams, you can watch it now on YouTube! youtu.be/OSVK6_PEl6g

Coffee With A Codex: Astronomy in Latin (Ms. Codex 826)

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For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 23, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 826, an astronomical work originally written in Arabic and translated into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona, including glosses and diagrams. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/3RAagTq

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 30, @leoba.bsky.social will show us several fragments from books of hours, and will talk about a relevant creative project she has been working on: the Frankenbook of Hours. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4wglY4R

Coffee with a Codex: Fragments and Franken-Books of Hours

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Older special episode of #CoffeeWithACodex featuring @leoba.bsky.social, Mary Yearl, and Faith Wallis, that I'm posting 'cause I couldn't find it here yet. #medievalsky #histmed www.youtube.com/watch?v=stil...

Coffee with a Codex: Medical Manuscripts and Marginalia

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Today's manuscript is a 15th c. copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Leonardo Bruni Aretino with introduction and dedication. The original first two leaves are missing and the text was later replaced on an added bifolium. (UPenn Ms. Codex 760) #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/3TeMiO2

Today's manuscript is a carta executoria issued in Valladolid, Spain, August 1564 in the name of Philip II in favor of Juan Ximenez de Angulo of Sancto Domingo in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status). (UPenn Ms. Codex 74) #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/4wddhYV

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 23, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 826, an astronomical work originally written in Arabic and translated into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona, including glosses and diagrams. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/3RAagTq

Here we have a leaf from a Persian manuscript of uncertain date and origin, with an illumination overpainted in the 20th century to mimic Mughal style, likely in India for the tourist trade. (UPenn LJS 196) Link to record: https://bit.ly/44Nzb9j Video Orientation: https://bit.ly/44NzVLD

A delightful copy of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Les sept pseaumes penitentiaux) written in France in 1681. We looked at it in #CoffeeWithACodex, and here's a snippet, focusing on the embroidered binding (UPenn Ms. Codex 1564) Catalog record: bit.ly/4c0KGg5 Full CWAC video: https://bit.ly/4vYoUCZ

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 16, we'll look at a copy of the Hebrew printed edition of "Economy of human life", adapted from the work attributed to Robert Dodsley (1703-1764), who claimed to have derived it from Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. Register here: https://bit.ly/4xJFJ5P

Coffee with a Codex: Purported Buddhist Text in Hebrew

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Don't miss today's #CoffeeWithACodex, at 12pm ET on Zoom (that's 5pm BST, where I am now). You can register and receive the link up until it starts. Hope to see you there!

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For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 9, curator @leoba.bsky.social will host Coffee With A Codex from the Brotherton Research Centre, the special collections unit of the University of Leeds. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4gMR3In

Attended a workshop at @imc-leeds.bsky.social , made a fun thing! (inspired by the woad guy in UPenn LJS 419 and an historiated initial in Ms. Codex 724) #imc2026

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 9, curator @leoba.bsky.social will host Coffee With A Codex from the Brotherton Research Centre, the special collections unit of the University of Leeds. #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4gMR3In

Coffee with a Codex: Field Trip to Leeds, UK

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It is always a treat to see the manuscripts from one's institution featured in the opening keynote for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 😋 (h/t to Matthew Champion, University of Melbourne, and his lecture "Sounding Time: Senses, Spaces, Silences") 🔗: find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924...

A gray birb gazes up from the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 327r, a 13th century illuminated Bible. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4deNkzU

The Spring 2026 issue of Manuscript Studies (vol. 11.1) is now available in Open Access! We are pleased to announce the latest issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. The journal is published semi-annually by SIMS and the U. of Pennsylvania Press.

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on July 2, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 386, substantial sections from an illustrated Arabic treatise on the measurement of weight, copied sometime in the late 13th or early 14th c. Register here: https://bit.ly/4xXjCcb

Coffee with a Codex: Treatise on Weight in Arabic

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If you missed last week's #CoffeeWithACodex featuring this 17th century book with a truly fantastic embroidered binding, you can watch it now on YouTube! youtu.be/Koe3apNrSic?...

Coffee with a Codex: Prayers in German (Ms. Codex 1564)

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For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on June 25, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 1564, the Penitential Psalms in French, 17th c. It is written in a lovely calligraphic script and is bound in a gorgeous embroidered binding. Register here: https://bit.ly/4vsuXQ3

Here we have the first part of a four-part poem in octaves on the monarchy of Portugal, with allusions to astrology, alchemy, and cabala. It contains handwritten copies of two different printed versions of the text, and several other texts too. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1646) 🔗: https://bit.ly/4eVQWJc

Little known fact: they had beauty contests for books in 16th-century France and this one won Ms. Codex 1566! And what a beautiful manuscript

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Here is Ms. Codex 1566, a 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4kJdOex

Here is Ms. Codex 1566, a 14th century book of hours from Metz, France: a brief look inside, at the calendar, and then a miniature of the Virgin and Child, nursing - typical of use of Metz - at the opening of Matins. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4kJdOex

What can 19th-century letters reveal about migration, identity, and Jewish networks? Last year at @upenn.edu, I worked on the Italian letters of Sabato Morais, tracing connections between Italy, Philadelphia, and the wider Jewish world. Read more here: www.library.upenn.edu/kislak/judai...

Letters without Borders: Exploring the Italian Correspondence of Sabato Morais

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If you missed last week's #CoffeeWithACodex, featuring two illuminated ketubahs (Jewish marriage contracts) you can watch it now on YouTube! Hosted by Louis Meiselman, Judaica Special Collections Cataloger at U. Penn Libraries youtu.be/iYwplxmy4B8

Coffee with a Codex: Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts (CAJS Rar Ms 757 & CAJS Rar Ms 776)

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Hello folks who work with digitized manuscripts. What is your preferred metadata format? If you could get ONE, what would it be? TEI, Json, a spreadsheet, MARC, or something else? Please let me know and share this query! This is important!

For #CoffeeWithACodex (12pm ET, on Zoom) on June 25, curator @leoba.bsky.social will bring out Ms. Codex 1564, the Penitential Psalms in French, 17th c. It is written in a lovely calligraphic script and is bound in a gorgeous embroidered binding. Register here: https://bit.ly/4vsuXQ3

Coffee with a Codex: Penitential Psalms in French

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Any 15th century German linguistic experts out there. Our librarian at the royal observatory Edinburgh would love to hear from you. We have a beautiful manuscript in our Crawford collection which we would love to read and find out more.

If you missed our visit with Rochester Institute of Technology's Cary Collection 15th century Italian copy of Johannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphera Mundi (bound with two other texts) you can watch it now! It has some unusual diagrams that are worth seeing. youtu.be/FSyZjp5Fm4g

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy Manuscript in Rochester, NY

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