Month: December 2012
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Merry Christmas
The above is from Penn Ms. Codex 1572 a 14th century manuscript Gradual (liturgical music book) from Bressanone, Italy. The dragon-shaped initial ‘G’ begins a chant for Midnight mass at Christmas “Grates nunc omnes reddamus domino deo…” [Thanks let us render all to the lord God…]. Merry Christmas from Unique at Penn!
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The Bedchamber is Not as Safe as You Thought: The Rescue
Found in Emerson Bennett’s Dollar Monthly, Volume 1, Number 9, page 392. Call Number: AP85.Em356 860b
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Etymologies, Natural Histories, and Sermons in LJS 477
[Ed. Note: Today’s post comes from Jacqueline Burek, a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of English who presented a version of this research at the graduate student workshop associated with the 5th annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, 16 November 2012] When I was browsing Penn in Hand one day,…