For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, March 21, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom) Curator Dot Porter will be joined by SIMS Curator of Manuscripts Nick Herman and Penn PhD student in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature Julia Pelosi-Thorpe to unbox a new manuscript purchase! Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Written in Florence in the 1470s. You'll get to see it for the first time at the same time we do!
Aun (Durge) and Enver on a rooftop somewhere in Lower City, 1477 D.R.
I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer. (from Heaven by Mieko Kawakami)
you can’t talk about implications of sexual assault in scenes with billy without talking about the times it is actually implied, accidental or not (this whole sequence + s3 in general) or acknowledging the fact that he was the victim and not the perpetrator
we don't talk enough about gerri staring dead-ass right up at roman through the window with martyn's arm around her shoulders as if to say, "ha ha ha! suffer."
she truly came to that wedding to murder him, and even the untimely death of his father did not prevent her from succeeding
For this week's #CoffeeWithACodex (Thursday, April 4, 12pm Noon EST on Zoom), Curator Dot Porter will bring out five books that illustrate and describe that most conspicuous of celestial events, the eclipse. We'll look at texts in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, ranging from the 12th through the 16th century, and see the similarities and differences between them.
Update: Recording of this event is now on YouTube!