Although we don’t know who created them, we love these ink drawings that were found on the front free endpaper of Benjamin Franklin’s copy of congressional proceedings from November 1783 to June 1784.
Penn Libraries Manuscripts
Posting about mostly medieval manuscripts, from the Penn Libraries' collections and elsewhere. Brought to you by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Curated by Dot Porter.
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Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 41, the Book of Esther written on 3 gatherings removed from a miscellany, bound with another text used at Purim. Written it Italy in the 15th c. #medieval #manuscript #Judaism #purim #esther #illumination #fragment #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CctMkYaFJTO/
Today’s #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll. 713, two collages of manuscript miniatures on vellum, probably from a breviary in Northern France, possibly Rouen, in the late 15th century. Don’t do this today, but it’s neat that someone did it in the past. https://instagr.am/p/CcqEvfus8rI/
Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 475, an illustrated herbal on paper in the Dioscorides tradition featuring a creepy iris on the verso. Illustrated in watercolor, probably in Venice or Belluno, circa 1415. #medieval #herbal #illustration #plant #iris #flower #fragment #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/Ccip7eHMPVG/
Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 194, a collection of geometrical texts by Gerbert of Auvergne, including material from four chapters of the Isagoge geometriae and annotated in the 12th and 15th c. Gerbert was elected Pope Sylvester II in 999. #medieval #manuscript #geometry #mathematics #historyofmath #12thc #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcajKjLMSfz/
Today’s #FragmentFriday is Ms. Coll. 591 folder 46, two leaves from a mid- to late-16th-c. volume of multiple works of Thomas More, written in secretary script with running titles and capital letters marking sections in the left margin. #earlymodern #manuscript #16thc #thomasmore #theology #polemics #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcYFAmms_yQ/
Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 446, sections from Book I of Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Written in Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew, likely copied in Spain in the first half of the 12th century. #medieval #manuscript #middleeast #avicenna #medicine #historyofmedicine #historyofscience #arabic #hebrew #spain #12thc #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcQq4aplw1N/
Today’s #ManuscriptOfTheDay is LJS 101, a 9th-century copy of Boethius’s Latin translation of Aristotle’s De interpretatione, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century. #medieval #manuscript #philosophy #boethius #aristotle #9thc #11thc #carolingian #illustration #illumination #initial #bookhistory #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CcIjUP2sxJ0/
