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Guided by the vision of its founder, Lawrence J. Schoenberg, the mission of SIMS at Penn is to bring manuscript culture, modern technology and people together to bring access to and understanding of our cultural heritage locally and around the world. This site stores the master versions of the videos that are published on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SchoenbergInstitute).
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Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 674 - [Horae de Sancta Katherina]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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=22283686350003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 665 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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=22283691260003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1280 - [Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo 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=22416113250003681Publication 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 Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1666 - Ars logicae : in Aristotelis Logicam Quaestiones (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1666, commentaries on Aristotelian logic divided into six sections. Written in Italy in the 18th century. Record on Franklin (link to digitized copy): https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9962934853503681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1665 - [Alchemical compilation]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1665, a collection of treatises on Hermetic works, the philosopher's stone, with instructions for the transmutation of metals, creating artificial diamonds, and alchemical recipes for powders, elixirs, and occasional medicinal remedies. Includes a table of contents (p. iii-x). Written in France(?), between 1750 and 1799. Record on Franklin (link to digitized copy): https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9962934963503681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1669 - [Works on spirits and their sigils]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1669, a collection of works primarily focused on spirits and their sigils that includes numerous tables, drawings, and diagrams of magical symbols and their properties. Also includes additional sections on making rings of invisibility (f. 40r) and for uncovering thefts (f. 44r). Written in France[?] in the second half of the 18th century.Publication Penn Library's LJS 501 - [Bifolium from Liber completus...]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 501, a bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript copied in England of the mid-13th-century Latin translation by Aegidius de Thebaldis (assisted by Petrus de Regio) of the Old Castilian translation of an 11th-century Arabic treatise on astrology. The text on the bifolium is from Book 5 and Book 6 of the work, which are in the section concerning nativities. The bifolium has been bound in reverse so that the leaf with the end of Book 5 and the beginning of Book 6 (and the historiated initial marking the division) are on the first leaf, followed by the originally earlier leaf containing material from Chapter 14 of Book 5. Two marginal section headings (f. 2r) in the same hand as the text; a few brief marginal annotations. Written in England in approximately 1320.