This post serves as an addendum to Specific Knowledge: Cassandra Daucus on Manuscripts, published by From Beyond Press.
If you’re here because you read the Specific Knowledge post and you’d like to know more about the manuscripts in the figures, welcome! Below you’ll find full citations, links to the catalog records and digital facsimiles, and videos where they exist.
All the books featured in the post are from the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
LJS 60: Cosmographia by Pomponius Mela. Possibly written in northern Italy, before 1450 (date of ownership inscription, f. 70v); probably written between 1440 and 1450. Catalog Record (basic information), Digital Facsimile (Penn’s interface), Internet Archive (facsimile & pdf download), Video Orientation (brief look through the book). LJS means it’s from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Inc M-447: Cosmographia by Pomponius Mela. Printed in Milan, 25 Sept. 1471. Catalog Record. It hasn’t been digitized, and there’s no video. Inc means it’s an incunable (printed in Europe between 1450 and 1499)
The model book was made by book artist Erica Honson, Common Press, University of Pennsylvania, and will be featured in The Movement of Books exhibit.
Ms. Codex 724: Bible. Possibly written and illuminated in Arras, France, in the last quarter of the 13th century. Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, Internet Archive, Coffee With A Codex (long video). Ms. Codex means it’s in the Kislak Center’s regular medieval and renaissance manuscript collection, and it’s a codex format.
Ms. Codex 1056: Book of hours, Use of Rouen. Written and illuminated in Rouen, circa 1475. Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, CWAC, Video Facsimile (full cover-to-cover page-turning without any narration)
LJS 463: Medical and astrological miscellany. Signed in Buchau (near Biberach), northeast of Lake Constance in southern Germany, 1443. Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, Internet Archive, Video Orientation, CWAC, CWAC (with LJS 449)
LJS 24: Medical Miscellany. Written in Paris in the mid-13th century. Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, Internet Archive, Video Orientation, CWAC
LJS 407: Collection of Astronomical Texts. Written in Persian, original location unknown, and undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century. Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, Internet Archive, Video Orientation, CWAC
Ms. Codex 1881: Astronomical Treatises and Tables. Written in Germany, circa 1481; one treatise is dated 30 December 1481 (fol. 36v). Catalog Record, Digital Facsimile, Internet Archive, Video Orientation, CWAC
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