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.