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That’s a wrap on 100 images from Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries From Philadelphia Libraries! http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/

Pierpaolo Muscharello Algorismus (On Algebra) Nola, 1478; scribe: Pierpaolo Muscharello (colophon, fol. 101r) University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 27 Pierpaolo Muscharello Algorismus (On Algebra) Nola, 1478; scribe: Pierpaolo Muscharello (colophon, fol. 101r) University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 27

Charging into a new week! ♞♘ Compilation of texts including Jacobus de Cessolis, De ludo scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium (Book of the Game of Chess, or, The Customs of Men and the Duties of Nobles) Northern Italy, 1409 University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 267

Book of Hours, Use of Rome Siena, ca. 1475; illuminators: Liberale da Verona (miniatures) and Gioacchino de Gigantibus (borders and illuminated initials) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 118

Cicero; Orationes (Orations) Venice, printed not after 1471 Illuminator: Giovanni Vendramin The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Inc 471ci (1062/24)

Illuminated initial showing a Priest Celebrating Mass; border cartouche with deer; border roundel with deer, possibly from the Missal of Lucrezia de’ Medici Possibly Venice, 1475–76 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 27:27–29

Grumpy Cats- Early Modern Edition Commissione issued to Andrea di Giorgio Valier by Leonardo Loredan Venice, 1502; illuminator: First Pisani Master Lehigh University, Codex 21 (acc. no. 23452)

Historical Miscellany including Paul the Deacon, Historia romana (Roman History) Italy (Lombardy or Piedmont?), ca. 1450 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 71

Octavien de Saint-Gelais Livre des Eneydes (French translation of Virgil, Aeneid) France, ca. 1505–10 University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 909

“Walt Whitman’s Gift,” a recent essay published by Lapham’s Quarterly, explores the importance of a painting titled “The Tea Party” owned by the Kislak Center. One of three paintings by the London-born artist Herbert Gilchrist held here, “‘The Tea Party’ dwells in a nebulous state of suspended conversation. No one looks at each other … In a posture of still meditation, Walt Whitman smells a red flower.” Professor Don James McLaughlin argues that, “among Gilchrist’s and Whitman’s friends at the time of the painting’s creation, 1882–84, the import of the scene would have been inseparable from the story of Herbert’s notably absent older sister, the widely connected and beloved physician Dr. Beatrice Gilchrist.” Created in the years following Beatrice’s sudden death, “The Tea Party” echoes a feeling the doctor’s mother distilled in her epitaph: “Faithful unto Death. Many hearts mourn her. In her short career did she by skill, tenderness, and unwearied devotion to duty bring healing and comfort to many both here and in America.” For more on the life of Beatrice Gilchrist and the significance of “The Tea Party,” you can find the essay “Walt Whitman’s Gift” at: www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/walt-whitmans-gift

Leaf from Petrarch, Africa, Book IX Lombardy, ca. 1400 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 48:4

While the exhibition *Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries* is currently closed, we’re continuing to share 100 images of manuscripts featured in the show. In addition to showcasing the diverse collections of Philadelphia institutions, this exhibit has been an opportunity to display the research discoveries made during the course of the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis (Bibliophilly) regional cataloguing and digitization project. For more about Bibliophilly: bibliophilly.pacscl.org Sallust Bellum Catilinae (Conspiracy of Catiline) and Bellum Iugurthinum ( Jugurthine War) Padua (?), between 1455 and 1465 University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 381

Noels (Christmas carols) Western France (Nantes?), ca. 1520–30
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 211

Penitential Psalms in terza rima, Mariotto Davanzati, Trattato dell ’amicizia (Treatise on Friendship), and Giovanni Boccaccio, Lettera consolitaria a Pino de Rossi (Letter of Consolation to Pino de’ Rossi) Tuscany, ca. 1460; illuminator: follower of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 366

Franciscan Miscellany, including I Fioretti di San Francesco (Little Flowers of Saint Francis), Leggenda di S. Chiara vergine (Legend of Saint Catherine the Virgin), Second Rule of Saint Francis, and Testament of Saint Francis Venice or Ferrara, ca. 1460–80; illuminator: follower of Guglielmo Giraldi and Franco dei Russi
University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1577

Inhabited initial C from a choir book showing Saint John on Patmos Lombardy, ca. 1500; illuminator: Master B.F. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 72:11a

Leaf from a Book of Hours showing the Presentation in the Temple Paris, ca. 1520; illuminator: workshop of the Master of the Parisian Entries (Jean Coene IV?)
Private Collection, Philadelphia

Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome Paris, Gilles Hardouyn, 1516 La Salle University, Connelly Library, Special Collections, BX2080.A2 1516

Cicero Orationes (Orations) Venice, Christophorus Valdarfer, not after 9 November 1471 (Goff C-542; ISTC ic00542000); illuminator: Giovanni Vendramin The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Inc 471ci (1062/24), fols. 1v–2r

Lothar of Segni (Innocent III) De miseria humane conditionis (On the Misery of the Human Condition), and other ascetic tracts Italy, ca. 1470 University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 717