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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 674 - [Horae de Sancta Katherina]. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 674, Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand. Written in Germany in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). 19th-century description tipped onto front endleaf has date ca. 1390. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874603503681?hld_id=22283686350003681
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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 665 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 665, statutes in 151 chapters of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'. Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874513503681?hld_id=22283691260003681
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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1280 - [Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors]. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1280, ledger of debtors and creditors of the Medici family for the years 1537-1539. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being the Spedale e Spedaletto di Santa Maria Novella (p. 7, 22), a Florentine church which also offered pilgrims and those in need medical help; the Chapitolo and Convento delle monache delle convertite (p. 17), a nunnery for young women, often prostitutes, who converted to Catholicism; and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 60). An alphabetical index, with 18 lettered tabs, containing names of individuals and institutions that appear in the ledger, is laid into the manuscript. Written in Italy, ca. 1539 (date of latest entries, p. 98). Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944302523503681?hld_id=22416113250003681
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    Transcription of Alice Paul (1885-1977), The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania
    (2025) Sharkey, Heather J; Ellen Miller; Murad, Maria; Lindsey Perlman
    This document presents a complete transcription of the PhD thesis of Alice Paul (1885-1977), "The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania," presented in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and completed in 1912. The thesis, which was never published, survives in one copy, a holograph manuscript housed in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (Ms. Coll. 680). In a brief introduction, the authors describe their transcription work.
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    Dynamic Family Size Preferences during the COVID-19 Mortality Crisis
    (2025-03-21) Marteleto, Letícia J.; Kumar, Sneha
    In this note, we examine how family size preferences evolved for women with and without children in response to changing COVID-19 mortality exposure during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We leverage spatiotemporal variation in COVID-19 deaths occurring during panel surveys in 2020 and 2021 with a population-based sample of 2,520 women, ages 18–34, across 94 municipalities in Pernambuco, Brazil. We use individual fixed-effects regressions to examine whether changes in municipality-level COVID-19 death rates are associated with changes in women’s desired family size, net of own/family COVID-19 infection status and other time-varying sociodemographic factors. We find that women with and without children at baseline respond differently to changing municipality-level COVID-19 deaths—while women without children do not change their desired family size, women with children see a small but significant increase in their desired family size in response to rising COVID-19 mortality. These innovative findings suggest that women with children responded to widespread COVID-19-related loss within their communities by wanting to build and consolidate their families. We advance knowledge about varying contextual influences on fertility preferences during epidemics in a middle-income country with young and below-replacement fertility.
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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 859 - Instrumenta mag. fratrum de Tartaleonibus. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 859, copies of 23 documents concerning financial transactions of the Tartaleoni brothers of Milan, dating from 1565 to 1575, each followed by two notarial signets and signatures. Written in Mantua, ca. 1565-1575; 1564 written on cover. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9931780393503681?hld_id=22370445990003681
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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 736 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 59, a collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen, with copies of documents by Clement VI, Innocent IV, Urban VI, Boniface VIII, Alexander IV, Martin V, Eugene IV, Nicholas V, and Sixtus IV. Includes a letter by the cardinal protector of the order, Guillaume de Estouteville; collection notarized by Marco Marzio Saxoferratensis (f. 29). Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), 29 March 1475 (f. 29r). Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875873503681?hld_id=22283703620003681 Record on Internet Archive (link to PDF): https://archive.org/details/mscodex736
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    Penn Library's Ms. Codex 59 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)
    Porter, Dot
    Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 59, a capitulary containing copies of Venetian statutes pertaining to officials concerned with financial matters (Tre savii sopra la remisio di conti, f. 34r). Written in Venice, from 1519 (f. 1r) to 1631 (f. 16r). Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9914711863503681?hld_id=22412879400003681
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    Floods, Community Infrastructure, and Children's Heterogeneous Learning Losses in Rural India
    (2025-02-03) Hannum, Emily; Khalid, Nazar; Behrman, Jere R.; Thapa, Amrit
    India has the world’s largest number of school-aged children. The majority live in rural areas, many of which are highly flood-prone. Previous studies document that in such areas, floods are associated with lower enrollments, attendance, and learning, in some cases with differentiation by gender, caste/religion, and family SES. Previous literature suggests that components of community infrastructure have positive associations with children’s learning. However, previous literature has not addressed whether better community physical and social infrastructures are associated with (1) smaller flood-related learning losses on average, (2) different learning for marginalized versus other children in the absence of floods, and (3) different vulnerabilities to floods for marginalized versus other children. This paper finds that (1) most aspects of community physical and social infrastructure are not associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, but proximity to towns and several components of social infrastructure are associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, (2) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous associations, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the absence of floods, and (3) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous effects, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the presence of floods.
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    Collation Model for Ms. Codex 363: Triumpho de la morte contra li magni [et] valenti homini de Italia : cum le additione de li capitani moderni : novamente composte [et] correcta la prima hystoria.
    (2025-03-19) Porter, Dot
    Poetic work in 91 eight-line stanzas. Mentioned in the poems are Sforza, Galeazo, Contarini, Gonzaga, Malatesta, Spinola, Brandolini, etc.