Unique at Penn
Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 49 – Rawḍat al-adhhān… (Video Orientation)
Coffee With a Codex: Biblia sacra (Ms. Codex 1053)
Treasures of the Gratz-Mandell Collection
of Jewish Music at the Kislak Center of the University of Pennsylvania (1)
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 25 – Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 16 – Guerino Meschino (Video Orientation)
Coffee With a Codex: Treating Illness (LJS 195 & Ms. Codex 2074)
Festive Fireworks, Not Just for the Fourth
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 24 – Medical miscellany (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 483 – Questions on Aristotle’s Physics (Video Orientation)
Coffee With a Codex: Lope de Vega in manuscript (Ms. Codex 63 & Ms. Codex 188)
Film conservation work reveals Cairo streets circa 1932
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 38 – Prayers and commentary (Video Orientation)
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 216 – Tractatum de spera (Video Orientation)
Coffee With a Codex: Magic & Medicine (LJS 470 & 471)
Bees and Biblical Studies
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 55 – L’image del monde (Video Orientation)
Archives: History in Your Hands (An Illustrated Pamphlet)
Recipes and Recycling: A Dutch Ream Wrapper in an English Recipe Book
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 48 – Instrumenta feudorum… (Video Orientation)
Signe Wilkinson: Editorial Cartoonist and Philadelphia’s “Attack Quaker”
Coffee With a Codex: Canon Law (Ms. Codex 1059)
In the Spotlight: Maria Uytendale Hendrickson Baird Family papers
A Colonial Photography Album and its Ties to the Present: Allan Hughan, Charles Malan, and 1870s French New Caledonia [DRAFT]
Applying eScriptorium’s Handwritten Text Recognition techniques to transcribing Devanāgarī manuscripts
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 47 – Boethius. De institutione musica (Video Orientation)
A guide to finding pictures in the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 418 – Passio sancti Blasii (Video Orientation)
Welcome to the World of Bookmarks!
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 761 – Cosmographies. (Coffee With A Codex)
The Storied Past of American Libraries
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 223 – Questiones logicales … [etc.] (Video Orientation)
Fun at the Printing Press and with Greeting Cards
Learning, Revolution and Democracy: An Exhibition of 200 Years of Higher Education in Philadelphia
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 37 – Euclid’s Elements (Arabic) [اختصار للمقالات من كتاب اقليدس]. (Video Orientation)
The sea of Minhagim books – and the unique Penn copy
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 761 – Cosmographies. (Coffee With A Codex)
To “Guide the Student Life, the Organizations, the Recreation, the Housing, and the Welfare of Women Students”
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 43 – Shāh Qāsim wa-ghayruhu min taṣānīfih. (Video Orientation)
Documenting the Homefront: Engineering, Science, and Management War Training records and Philadelphia’s Industrial Workers in World War II
Manuscript Monday: Penn Library’s LJS 46 – Herbal. (Video Orientation)
Calcutta’s Unlikely Reporter: Gertrude Carew Robinson’s Letters to Her Mother
Identifying tactile alphabets for total beginners: a cataloging story
“The truth of these cases I can verify”: Medicine in 18th-century London
“My Desire of Breathing a Free Air”: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Letter as an “enemy alien,” December 1941
The International Appeal of Musicals
Scrapped: The Curious Case of Penn’s Missing 2,000lb Computer
How to Get Around 19th Century Philadelphia
Jews in Medicine: From Riga, Latvia to Pune, India
Segmenting Ancient Chinese-Japanese Texts for HTR (from the RDDS Blog)
Not Quite a Building
“An Illustrious and Lengthy Association”: Pennsylvania Hospital and the School of Medicine
The Penn Women’s Center: A Short History
“Please remember not to forget me”: a 1924 summer camp scrapbook from the Schimmel Collection
Unique at Penn, Live!
From the Apothecary
A German Medical Manuscript and Pharmacists in Southeastern Pennsylvania