Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript StudiesManuscriptsVideo Orientation
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 55 – L’image del monde. Copy of the version in verse (written continuously without line breaks, like prose) of Gautier’s encyclopedic treatise discussing cosmology, astronomy, meteorology, geography, natural science, and religion. Many of the headings, which are generally […]
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
What is an archive? What is an archival collection? What do archivists do? Unless you’ve spent some quality time in reading rooms, these ideas might feel a bit vague and nebulous. But we would never want a lack of clarity about archives to be anyone’s reason to avoid using them. Archives are made to be […]
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
By Aylin Malcolm and Margaret C. Maurer Penn MS Codex 251 is a slim eighteenth-century recipe book with a distinctive binding made of thick, durable paper. The binding’s exterior is red with a stamped gold floral design, while the bluish-grey interior is stamped with a large red coat of arms of the city of London: […]
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript StudiesManuscriptsVideo Orientation
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientationto the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 48 – Instrumenta feudorum castri Sone : cum privilegio comitatus in personam Don Ioannis et fratrum ac descendentium de Faelis. Notarial copies of decrees and grants relating to Giovanni Faella of Verona and his family, mostly written by […]
Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives
In Spring 2026, editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson donated her drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives. Wilkinson is best known for her work with the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as for being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Born in 1950 […]
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript StudiesCoffee with a CodexManuscripts
Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with a curator and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn’s collections. Each week we’ll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of other curators. On February 2, 2022, we looked at Ms. Codex 1059, a compilation of canon law […]
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Recently I finished processing a collection of family papers primarily from the years 1900 to 1940 of the Baird family of Philadelphia, passionate patrons and participants in arts and culture. The materials mostly belonged to the matriarch, Maria Uytendale Hendrickson Baird (1874-1930) and her daughter Sarah Uytendale Baird Caner (1896-1991), both of whom went by […]
