Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Fall 2024 at Penn's Kislak Center - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/fall2023_kislak-8335642

Coffee with a Codex: Humanist History of Rome on May 9 -

Coffee with a Codex: Humanist History of Rome on May 9 Thank you for subscribing to the Coffee With A Codex mailing list! We’ll send you one email a week to remind you of upcoming Coffee With A Codex events. All meetings are 30 minutes long on Thursdays, 12pm Noon Eastern US time / 5pm UK time.

Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.
On May 2, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1071. This book contains coats of arms, painted and drawn in ink, for the nobles of England from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth I. Written in England, 1597.

Coffee with a Codex: Coats of Arms on May 2 Thank you for subscribing to the Coffee With A Codex mailing list! We’ll send you one email a week to remind you of upcoming Coffee With A Codex events. All meetings are 30 minutes long on Thursdays, 12pm Noon Eastern US time.

May at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-8258244

April 25 is "Bring Our Children To Work Day" here at Penn, and Curator Dot Porter will be bringing her son along for Coffee With A Codex! He enjoys math, so we'll look at three very different manuscripts about arithmetic and geometry, dating from the 12th, 15th, and 17th centuries.

Coffee with a Codex: Arithmetic & Geometry on April 25 Thank you for subscribing to the Coffee With A Codex mailing list! We’ll send you one email a week to remind you of upcoming Coffee With A Codex events. All meetings are 30 minutes long on Thursdays, 12pm Noon Eastern US time.

April at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-8254928

Do you love manuscripts? Join the SIMS Manuscript Interest Group, meeting every other Friday at 2pm! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-8252356

Wednesday at Kislak: Our Bodies, Ourselves! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-8252100

March at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5887604

Thursday at Kislak: Healthcare from Below! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-6251856

February at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5886228

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a new Collector’s Edition box set by authors J.W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich and published by Taschen, is a treasure trove for fans of the iconic film. Featuring an exhaustively researched making-of book, photo album that’s jam-packed with never before seen materials, and ‘ephemera box’, the collection shines a light on a production and director that have long been shrouded in mystery and myth. For Kubrick aficionados, cinephiles or casual film fans alike, it’s sure to change the way you see the film.

Learn more about this collector’s box in today’s Unique@Penn blog post by guest author Ian Dykstra, link in bio.

Corrections and Additions to Spring 2024! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/fall2023_kislak-5886204

“De sigillo Lunae” from a thirteenth-century manuscript of talismans or seals, thought to help manifest the powers of the planets when created in metal or on parchment.

For Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, as well as the Moon and Sun, there is a brief text accompanied by five seal faces (except in the case of the Moon, which has four). Three faces have esoteric zodiacal and planetary signs and names, some with Hebrew letters; the fourth has a magic square (array of numbers) associated with the planet; and the fifth has a careful ink drawing of the planet represented as a divinity in human form.From a manual on talismans or seals, thought to help manifest the powers of the planets when created in metal or on parchment. For Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, as well as the Moon and Sun, there is a brief text accompanied by five seal faces (except in the case of the Moon, which has four). Three faces have esoteric zodiacal and planetary signs and names, some with Hebrew letters; the fourth has a magic square (array of numbers) associated with the planet; and the fifth has a careful ink drawing of the planet represented as a divinity in human form.

Shelf mark: Ms. Codex 1264

Learn all about the exciting things happening this semester at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/fall2023_kislak-5885656

Need a break from finals? Check out some of our amazing end-of-year programs. You won't want to miss them! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5879424

Check out some of the wonderful programs happening this November at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5876172

Tomorrow: Emma Smith and the First Folio - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5875436

Tomorrow at Kislak: Sun Ra! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5874820

Devotional manuscript in Dutch with illustrations of Christ’s wounds, a source of veneration in many parts of the world. Early 1700s.

This item was recently acquired and was featured in today’s New’s Acquisition Showcase.

October at Penn's Kislak Center! - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/spring2023_kislak-5871916

Tonight! “Dust Shaped Hearts - A Vision of Blues” with Artist Donald E. Camp.

In 1993, photographer Donald E. Camp started work on a series of photographic works titled Dust Shaped Hearts. The project was intended to be a sardonic statement about news reports of the threatened “extinction of the Black American male.” Drawing upon his experience as a photojournalist, this talk will explore how he re-defined the “newspaper headshot,” in order to go beyond stereotype and give thoughtful attention and permanence to the men he photographed. He chose to modify a 19th century casein and pigment process using earth (pigment) and milk (casein) as metaphor for the male and female. Combining these organic materials to make images parallels his observation that basic photography is biological, not mechanical.

This is a hybrid event: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor; and on Zoom.

5:30pm - 7:00pm

https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/dust-shaped-hearts

The semester is full swing! Today we welcomed students from for a workshop on how to read early American property deeds. We focused on a collection of Philadelphia records dating back to 1794.

Check out this semester's event lineup at Penn's Kislak Center - https://mailchi.mp/upenn/fall2023_kislak-5869128