Month: September 2013
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Midweek Marginalia
Early ms. sketch of a male figure (in military dress, armed with a shield?), a photo by Penn Provenance Project on Flickr. Early ms. sketch of a male figure (in military dress, armed with a shield?) on verso of last printed leaf in volume. Penn Libraries call number: GC5 K8183 529e All images from this…
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Printing News at the Front
A quick post today to highlight a find made in our drawers of oversized and broadsheet materials. Our talented catalogers are in the process of re-describing materials in these drawers and one of them, Elsa Varela, alerted me to a puzzling piece of 20th century history she had found. At first glance this piece of…
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Provenance Party!
The Penn Provenance Project on Flickr has now received over 1,000,000 views!! Congratulations to everyone who struggled to read illegible inscriptions, identified bookplates and stamps and enriched Penn’s catalog records with detailed information about the former owners of our rare books. If you haven’t visited yet, come take a look at some of our sets…
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Midweek Marginalia
Manicules, a photo by Penn Provenance Project on Flickr. Detail of a folio paper leaf (g5, recto visible) from an incunable edition of Justinian’s Institutiones with the glossa ordinaria of Accursius (Venice: Battista Torti, 22 Dec. 1484; ISTC ij00527000), printed in red and black in double columns surrounded by gloss with a few early ms.…
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Midweek Marginalia
Marginalia in the hand of grammarian and politician James Harris (1709-1780) in a 1556 edition of Aristotle’s Physics, a photo by Penn Provenance Project on Flickr. Marginalia in a 1556 edition of Aristotle’s Physics in the hand of James Harris (1709-1780), English politician, grammarian, and philosopher, best known for his work Hermes, a philosophical inquiry…
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Penn Libraries to open doors and data to PennApps hackathon
This post about the PennApps Hackathon is reblogged from the fantastic Apps On Tap site. I was thrilled to see that images and data from the Penn Provenance Project on Flickr are going to be used! The event sounds like great fun and I’m looking forward to learning about all of the cool apps that…