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Do you like space? Astronomy? Planetary movements? Well then the Schoenberg Institute is the collect
This week, we’re looking at different illustrations or diagrams showing medieval genius or inn
Initial I in untold amounts of anguish.Manuscript description and digital images can be found here a
Genial-looking initial I.Manuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn.Fol. 1
Even in the midst of setting down a series of treatises on science, alchemy, and medicine, the scrib
LJS 180 Letter concerning coinage, written in Paris in 1809.Letter written in Paris, dated 27 May 18
Before google maps, we had these.This week, we’re looking at atlases and maps in manuscripts.L
LJS 103 Reproduction of Sienese book covers, written in Siena 1895-1899?This is a 19th-century repro
Presented without comment, a doodle from fol. 16r of Ms. Codex 1243 that probably shows what you thi
In case you do not know what a widow looks like, fol. 120v of Ms. Codex 198 has you covered. This se
A E S T H E T I CManuscript description and digital images can be found here at OPenn.Fol. 3r, Ms. C
Other initials in Ms. Codex 614 are decorative albeit largely predictable– but the scribe
Your birthday is afoot, Libras! Here is an illustration of Venus, the ruling planet over Taurus and
LJS 197 Funeral chant pictographsThese images are prompts for chants performed from memory by a prie
Today’s Psalter is from a manuscript collection outside of the University of Pennsylvania,
Sagittarius archer, only you would wear a quiver that low on your belt as a fashion statement, despi
Puzzle initial H from fol. 60v of Ms. Codex 1053, a 13C Vulgate Bible. Fun info from our collections
LJS 33 Spanish Forger illumination.Illuminated chess scene painted on a parchment leaf scraped of it
This week, we’ll be looking at inhabited, illuminated, decorated, and historiated initials in
LJS 389 Shi si jing fa hui. Written in China after 1528.14th-century treatise on the anatomy, p
LJS 436 is a 14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic
There are three things that it takes a village to do: raising a child, being a village, and forming
A cat looks at a dangling descender on fol. 18v of Ms. Codex 724 as only a cat can. Check out this p
Omen bird, the heron, on LJS 414, Astrological compendium, fol. 152v. Written at the madrasah of ʻAl
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