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Publication Transcription of Alice Paul (1885-1977), The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania(2025) Heather J. Sharkey; Ellen Miller; Maria Murad; Lindsey PerlmanThis 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.Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 859 - Instrumenta mag. fratrum de Tartaleonibus. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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=22370445990003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 736 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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/mscodex736Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 59 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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=22412879400003681Publication 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, DotPoetic work in 91 eight-line stanzas. Mentioned in the poems are Sforza, Galeazo, Contarini, Gonzaga, Malatesta, Spinola, Brandolini, etc.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 290: La legenda di s[an]ct[i]ss[im]i Thebey soto Dioclitiano & Maximiano i[m]p[er]ato[r]i.(2025-03-19) Porter, DotAn Italian version of the extremely popular legend of the martyrdom of the Theban Legion, supposedly decimated in the reign of Diocletian and Maximian because so many of its officers and men adhered to the Christian faith. The massacre is supposed to have taken place at St. Maurice-en-Valais (now in Switzerland). The commander of the legion (which was composed entirely of men from the Thebaid in Egypt) was Maritius, later canonized.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 197: [Contemplations of the dread and love of God] ... [etc.](2025-03-19) Porter, DotManuscript copy of the text, Contemplations of the dread and love of God, sometimes erroneously attributed to Richard Rolle. This text covers f. 1-131 of the manuscript; it begins in the middle of the early section, What ys charite; how and whi thou schalt love God, and lacks the final leaf where this text ends and the next begins. Followed by additional prayers, poems, and homilies. These include prayers to Jesus, the Blessed Virgin, St. John the Baptist, St. Katherine and others. Also includes texts on virtues and on the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1881: [Astronomical treatises and tables].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotLate 15th-century collection of Latin astronomical treatises and tables of the 12th through 14th centuries, illustrated with six volvelles and numerous diagrams. The Alphonsine tables have calculations added in the bottom margins for various cities, mostly in Germany, including Erfurt, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mainz, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Regensburg, and Worms (f. 45v-51v), and a colophon dated 30 December 1481 (f. 61v). A leaf at the end of the volume has the Hebrew alphabet and a few Hebrew transliterations, including Magdeburg, carefully written parallel to the spine (f. 95v).Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1604: [Hymns and prayers].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotManuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). The first gathering has an added leaf (f. 5) with the abecedarian poem A solis ortus cardine by the 5th-century poet Sedulius, written in a different 15th-century Gothic cursive hand. Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1084: Moralia sunt figuris utriusque testamenti ... [etc.].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotA moralizing commentary on Biblical figures from both the Old and New Testaments as well as a sermon presented at the Council of Basel in 1433.