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Playful figures and creatures spring to life among the foliate borders of this beautiful manuscript

This fascinating piece of our Indic manuscript collection was featured in the 2015 exhibit *This Boo

Here, in a copy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Ethics, the scribe appears to have gotten somewhat di

LJS 46 is a manuscript that contains very little text and many botanical illustrations, mainly consi

Everyday is a great day for an herbal, especially one featuring what appear to be two serpents happi

#bottomsup How many steins can you fill from one barrel? Learning is always more fun with colorful d

#manuscriptmonday, secret text hidden within a philosophical#manuscript of great beauty. Here, the #

In this book of hours from the mid to late 1400s, an elegantly illuminated initial letter P contains

It never ceases to amaze us how utterly pleasing #simplicityindesign can be. Primary palette, curvil

A beautiful painting of Saint Francis of Assisi before a vision of the Virgin Mary standing atop a d

A compelling moment with Ella Fitzgerald, as recorded by dentist and amateur photographer Allen J. W

It seems that this title belonged to a chained library, a method which began to appear in the Middl

Stewart Culin (1858-1929) was a Philadelphia-born ethnographer and author who collected many things,

Penn’s holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western Hemisphere with more than 3,000 i

This intricately illustrated bookplate is from a bound selection of texts and chants for use in a Fr

*Labeculae Vivae: Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts* is cu

Detail from a French textbook on physics created between 1787 and 1788. This work includes diagrams

This is a bound collection of works about scholastic philosophy created by a student in early 18th-c

Here’s a #shelfie of tomes from the Lea Library. Founded by historian and publisher Henry Charles L

This florid, beautiful script can be found in the pages of a ledger of expenses of Fabbio Giunigi, B

The beauty of simplicity never ceases to humble and amaze us, we are simply in love with this restra

This winsome scholar, rendered in ink and watercolor, is from a set of lecture notes on Aristotle’s

This beautifully illustrated title page is from a bound collection of two works of Aristotelian scho

Feed the birds Detail from *Opusculos varios*, a collection of 14 works bound together, mostly con

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