Exhibits and Events

Joanna Banks in her library, ca 2018

"Let us go then, you and I"

"Let us go then, you and I"

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Middle for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , sixth floor

Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian Holly Mengel's photograph of conflict related archival items (2014)

Archives Calendar month Philly

Cataloging Conflict

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Centre , 6th floor

Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar

Photo of overturned lifeboat on which 28 titanic survivors spent the night, from John B. Thayer's The Sinking of the Titanic (Philadelphia, 1940) Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Academic Freedom Now (displayed as if written in chalk)

Reflect

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

Sponsored past the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Heart for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

2016-2017 Concert Flavor Schedule

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Course of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 6th floor

Engravings: 18th c penn and printed book

Detail from Biblia Latina, [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, before August 1456] Courtesy of the William H. Scheide Library, Princeton University Library

Detail of photograph of various spines of Dialogues of the Dead, courtesy of William Zachs.

Centaur from a manuscript, used in the Treasured Hunt pdf

"Master B.F.,

Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries

Exhibition tour, opening, and catalogue launch - Tuesday, Feb xi, 2020

Ney flutes

Re-covering the Ney Drove

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Marian Anderson Gallery , Albrecht Music Library, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , quaternary floor

Destiny and Design

Zola and the Dreyfus Affair: Intellectuals and the Struggle for Social Justice

Native North American drawings and writing framing exhibit

Borges, by Annemarie Heinrich.

Petrarch at 700

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Vinegia: Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, [1537]), title page, printer's mark

Series of v virtual lectures

Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale, Pisa): Lectures and Dialogues

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Online

Wild West show featuring woman with lasso

Women's Voices from American Frontiers

Exhibition Opening & Conference: September half-dozen-7, 2018

One-women Operation: Thursday, October four, at seven:thirty-9:00PM

Ms. Codex 910 Decameron, Folio 1r

From Petrus Camper, Natuurkundige Verhandelingen over den Orang Outang (1782)

Monday, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Mon, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Monday, September 24: "Paleontology and Connoisseurship"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Development"

Tuesday, September 25: "Gods, Humans, Apes: Art History and Evolution"

Th, September 27: "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Again"

Thursday, September 27: "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once again"

Thursday, September 27: "Medals and Shells: On Morphology and History, Once Once more"

Detail from a marginal illustration in a Bible, showing a defaced fox preaching to a rooster. Arras, France, late 13th century. University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 724, fol. 247v.

ninth Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Reactions: Medieval/Modern

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E.O. Hoppe, Ezra Pound, photograph (1920). Public domain.

27th Ezra Pound International Briefing

Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Mod American Poetry:

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, and Marianne Moore

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Eye for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 6th flooring

Detail of Christopher Elias Heiss, engraved portrait of Abba Gorgoryos in Hiob Ludolf's Historia Aethiopica (Frankfurt, 1681)>Kislak Center Collections.

2017 Jay I. Kislak Program: To the Ends of the Earth

Conference - Thursday, March 2 - Sat, March four, 2017

Censor's Scissors

Fish Image

The Evolution of Origin

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Kamin Gallery , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 1st flooring

Critical Refusals conference poster by Mandy Newham

Detail of Currier & Ives trade card, The Graces of the Bicycle (New York, 1880), Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Medical Ephemera Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Recent Acquisitions

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Kamin and Goldstein Family Galleries , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , Kickoff and 6th floors

Silver Bells

L. Fiorillo photographer, Bedouins (n.d.). Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, Penn Libraries

Dan Rose, illustration of Bradford Lux (ca. 1985). Used with permission of the artist.

Ptolemy, [Almagest] [manuscript] [Spain], A.H. 783 (1381), LJS 268, 132v

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

Arabic and Greek Scientific discipline and Philosophy

Class and Way in the Transmission to the Latin Westward

Professor Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, University of London

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Middle for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 6th floor

Monday, November 11: Fides Interpres

Monday, November xi: Fides Interpres

Monday, November 11: Fides Interpres

Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est

Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est

Tuesday, November 12: Sensus huius litterae est

Thursday, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro

Th, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro

Thursday, November 14: Intentio mea in hoc libro

Detail of wood engraving The effects of the proclamation: Freed Negroes coming into our lines, Newbern, North Carolina, Harper's Weekly, February 21, 1863), Penn Libraries

Rev. Joseph Benjamin McCaul, detail of illustration from Pen and Pencil Sketches (1886), Ms. Coll. 918, Kislak Center

Title page detail from Abu Isa al-Tirmidhi, Kitab Shamail al-Mustafa (Fez, Morocco, 1865), Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Arthur Tress, Boy in Flood Dream, Ocean City, Maryland, 1972, Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy of the artist

Arthur Tress

A Visual Odyssey

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th flooring

Hand colored woodcut of a beardless Saint Jerome wearing a cardinal's hat seated on a pew with a lion resting his front paws on Jerome's knees, from Saint Jerome, Septem diui Hieronymi epistole ad vitam mortalium instituendam accomodatissime, (Leipzig, 1508). Penn Libraries, Kislak Center Collections

The English Section of the University of Pennsylvania and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts invite you to:

Reading, Writing, Printing

A Conference in Laurels of Peter Stallybrass

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

Sponsored past the Penn Music Section & the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Music in the Pavilion

2017-2018 Concert Season Schedule

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Grade of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Hand-colored map, from Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum (ca. 1600), Kislak Center

From the NY Times: Paul Saenger, curator of the Newberry Library in Chicago, perusing a 14th-century codex from southern France with writings by Peter John Olivi, a Roman Catholic dissident.

3D-printed Arduino-powered replica of a Macintosh computer running a graphical adventure game based on William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. Model by DB Bauer, University of Maryland. Used with permission

Patricia Brennan

Sergei Rachmaninoff at piano and Eugene Ormandy. Photo courtesy of the Adrian Siegel Collection/Philadelphia Orchestra Archives

Details from Left: Buddhist monks relaxing and reading manuscripts. Wat Pathum Wanaram, Bangkok. and Right: Scribal portrait of `Abd Allah Mishkin Qalam (known as Mir `Abd Allah Katib), from a collection of poems (divan) written by Amir Najm al-Din Hasan Dihlavicv, 26 Muharram 1011. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, W.650, fol. 127a

Agents Wanted

The Hippopotamus Polka, by L. St. Mars

Line and Letter

Tower of Babel woodcut

Literae Humaniores

New York Voices, ©Ashley Bryan

"A World Centre," heliogravure by Jules Chauvet, from Hendrik Christian Andersen's World Centre for Communication (Paris, 1913; no. 19 printed for the University of Pennsylvania)

Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund in partnership with the Beckman Heart for the History of Chemistry at the Chemic Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce:

The Science of Information, 1870-1945:

The Universalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Historic period

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Beckman Center at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

12th-century vellum bifolium containing portions of Psalms 79, 80, and 84, with initials in red. The text's legibility has been affected by fading and worm damage (UPenn Ms. Coll. 591, Folder 1).

8th Almanac Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Picking Up the Pieces

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La carovane américaine au cénacle (The American caravan at the Cenacle). The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography.

The Thomas Sovereign Gates Library Lecture Fund

American and Muslim Worlds, c. 1500-1900

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Heart for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , sixth floor
McNeil Centre for Early American Studies (3355 Woodland Walk)

Image: Zola-Mouquette (Paris: Léon Hayard, ca. 1899). Anti-Dreyfusard card with movable panel, ridiculing Émile Zola as defender of Alfred Dreyfus, likely produced during the time of Zola's trial (UPenn, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Dreyfus Collection DC354.9.Z65)

Public Conversation between Lorraine Beitler, collector, and Norman L. Kleeblatt, Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, one:30-3:00pm

2015 Lorraine Beitler Lecture Fine art, Impress Culture, and Radical Politics, c. 1900

Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 map of Jerusalem

Portrait of Francis Johnson

Wonder of the Microscope Broadside with Hooke's Flea image

Wonders of the Microscope

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Kamin Gallery , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 1st flooring

Jeremy Schmall's, "Slapdown", Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2007

Romney's Emma Hart as Bacchante

Illustration from Manly P. Hall, An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Cabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (San Francisco, 1928), Kislak Center

An Elegy On the much Lamented Death of the Ingenious and Well-Belov'd Aquila Rose, Clerk to the Honourable Assembly at Philadelphia, who died the 24th of the 6th Month, 1723. Aged 28. Philadelphia: [Printed by Benjamin Franklin for Samuel Keimer], 1723. University of Pennsylvania Libraries collection.

Detail of original watercolor and ink illustration for Richard Egielski's Bravo, Minski ca. 1988, Atha Tehon Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Burton Rascoe apology card (ca. 1940s), Burton Rascoe Papers, Kislak Center

Archives Month Philly 2016

By the Book:

Making—and Breaking!—the Rules

Grade of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Middle for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Heart , 6th floor

Cover of Sam Young's Chef Fritz and His City (2015)

Paint over print image of partially colored Ptolemy map

Couple walking through an arbor. Detail of page 75r from Hypnerotomachia

Hand-colored map, from Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum (ca. 1600), Kislak Center

Wikimedia Commons: Michael Warner

First place: Sunset over the Lessley Site, Smith Creek Archaeological Project, Fort Adams, Mississippi

LJS 438, Neoplatonic and neopythagorean translations (Florence, ca. 1475)

Ms. Coll. 115, Evans's 8 September 1868 sketch of Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)

A Chef and His Library

Donald M. Robinson, Leaf Magic

Edgar Fahs Smith

Rudolf Serkin

From Book to Garden and Back

collage of Penn Libraries exhibition posters

Photo of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, Furness Theatrical Image Collection, Furness P/Be800.1 S Small Box, Kislak Cente

A conference in honor of the Philadelphia Playbills Project

Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th flooring

William Steig, Untitled ink drawing, Steig Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Book stamp of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) of his library at Middle Hill, from the first flyleaf of an 18th-century Italian manuscript copy of De rerum natura. Penciled notes at edges by later owners (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 179).

7th Almanac Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Collecting Histories

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Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

Sponsored by the Penn Music Department, the Kislak Center, & the Albrecht Music Library

Music in the Pavilion

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Heart , 6th flooring

September 27, 2019 Night Music Sleeping accommodation Ensemble

September 27, 2019 Dark Music Bedroom Ensemble

September 27, 2019 Night Music Bedchamber Ensemble

November viii, 2019 "The varies Carols I Hear" Penn Sings Whitman

November 8, 2019 "The varies Carols I Hear" Penn Sings Whitman

November eight, 2019 "The varies Carols I Hear" Penn Sings Whitman

January 17, 2020 Jasper String Quartet & Friends

January 17, 2020 Jasper String Quartet & Friends

January 17, 2020 Jasper Cord Quartet & Friends

April 10, 2020 Arcana New Music Ensemble

April 10, 2020 Arcana New Music Ensemble

April 10, 2020 Arcana New Music Ensemble

Composite image of type from broadside Dreyfus est innocent (France, 1898), Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair, Kislak Center

Spanish map of the Americas

21st annual Conference of the Guild for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)

geographies of the book

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Bob Cobbing

The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins

Portrait of John Milton

Detail of head of Christ, from [De philosophia naturali] (Germany, ca.1485-1499), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Detail from De bibel inhoudende het Oude ende Nyeuwe Testament, 1560. Evans Bible Collection. Folio BS224 1560.

Édouard Manet, painting of Stéphane Mallarmé, 1876. Collection of the Musée d' Orsay, Paris

Campaign flag reading Lincoln and Hamlin (1860), Gordon Block Collection of Lincolniana, Kislak Center, Unversity of Pennsylvania Libraries

Genizah fragment (Cairo Genizah, ca.1000-1199), Halpern 1, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Penn Libraries

The Buddha's Flower Sermon: Book discussion & reading with Jeff Shore. Image of Buddha Head and Orchid in the background

Maroon frame around hand lettered Hebrew words Sefer bereshit

Tab. VI from Philip Pfaff's "Abhandlung von den Zähnen des menschlichen Körpers und deren Krankheiten" (RK301 P53 1756)

Detail from Ludwig Abielle, Ill sonates pour le clavicin ou pianoforte opera III (France, 17th century), UPenn Ms. Codex 13, Kislak Center.

Sponsored past the Penn Music Department & the Kislak Middle for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Music in the Pavilion

2018-2019 Concert Season Schedule

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Eye for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

September 28, 2018, Musicians from Marlboro

September 28, 2018, Musicians from Marlboro

September 28, 2018, Musicians from Marlboro

September 28, 2018, Musicians from Marlboro

November 9, 2018, Mezzosoprano Meg Bragle

November 9, 2018, Mezzosoprano Meg Bragle

Nov 9, 2018, Mezzosoprano Million Bragle

November 9, 2018, Mezzosoprano Meg Bragle

February 15, 2019 Cello Soundings: Tom Kraines & Friends

Feb 15, 2019 Cello Soundings: Tom Kraines & Friends

February xv, 2019 Cello Soundings: Tom Kraines & Friends

February 15, 2019 Cello Soundings: Tom Kraines & Friends

April 5, 2019 Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

Apr v, 2019 Tempesta di Mare Bedchamber Players

April 5, 2019 Tempesta di Mare Bedroom Players

April v, 2019 Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

Engraved title page (modified) from Francis Bacon, Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning (Oxford, 1640)

Photo of type being set for printing on the Common Press (2006) courtesy of David Comberg

Detail from [The Alchemist] Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. le Brun., (Engraving) [17--]. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, E. F. Smith Collection.

Exhibit: Soviet architecture

Ashley Bryan, "Peggy" illustration from Feedom Over Me (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

Harry Mathews

Writing Surfaces: Matters of Text

Thomas Wiltberger Evans

Detail of hand-colored aquatint.

Candace diCarlo, Conjoined

My father gave me a dime and a choice

Diagram, Head with faculties and senses from De philosophia naturali

Woodcut detail: twisted tree and a spider web

Mahzor

Elizabeth Eisenstein

Portrait: Jonathan Swift

Receipt of payment for advertising two courses at the University of Pennsylvania in the North-Carolina Star newspaper, 1850

2 pies, one with a slice missing

Art Nouveau flowers and vines

The Art of the Book: Fine Printing in North America in the 21st Century

Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Symposium. Feb 26-17, 2016

Common Press Print

Gulliver's Reading

Gulliver's Reading

On showroom: -

Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Eye

Oh Fresh! Broadside

Reading in the Market

engraving detail of Prince Henry, Poins, and Falstaff from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part I, Furness Theatrical Image Collection, Kislak Center

Athenaeum Calendar month Philly 2017

Behind the Scenes

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Eye , 6th floor

Teotliztacan illustration from Antonio Penafiel, "Nombres Geograficos de Mexico" (Mexico, 1885). Penn Museum Library Collection

Ludwig Bemelmans, detail of cover mock-up for "Madeline", ca. 1939, Jean Johnson Kislak Collection, Copyright Ludwig Bemelmans, LLC © Ludwig Bemelmans, LLC

Photograph of Harry Mathews, © Sigrid Estrada, Harry Mathews Collection, Kislak Center

Book Launch

The Solitary Twin

past Harry Mathews

Course of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Heart , sixth floor

Frontispiece of Forma moderna di fabricar li processi... (Italy, 17--), Ms Codex 573, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Battista Agnese, Portolan Atlas image of the Western Mediterranean (Venice, 16th century), LJS 28, Kislak Center

Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).

Revealing Galen'south Simples

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Modified version of mural with Charles IV from mural in the Royal Castle Karlstein

Charles Four

An Emperor in Europe (1316-2016)

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Course of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Photo of type being set for printing on the Common Press (2006) courtesy of David Comberg

The Tower of Wisdom, woodcut on paper, made in Germany ca. 1475. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. M. 316r.

Cover of Ashley Bryan's autobiography Infinite hope featureing a black and white photograph of him as a young soldier in WWII with a line sketch of a soldier overlayed in yellow

Graphic showing train on trestle from below

The Revolt of the Bees

Marceau, Photograph proof of Dreiser. New York, 1900

Werner Pfeiffer's Difficult to Fit Book-Object

Lynda Diane Brody, digital illustration, William Shakespeare's Birthday

Shakespearean Residues:

Shakespeare at 450

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , sixth floor

detail of Calligraphers' Workshop. Courtesy of The Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. Lewis MS 1.

Manicule and acronym SIMS (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)

Quires within quires: diagram and photograph of unbound spine:

Advertisement: Mineral teeth

A Legacy Inscribed written using manuscript Initial L and initial I

On showroom March 11 - August xvi, 2013

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Goldstein Family Gallery , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Centre , sixth floor

Le Cri, lithograph from Hommage des artistes à Picquart (1899)

Sepia photo showing an aisle of Alhambra

Amacher at Beethoven's tomb: Double image

Who's Coming to Dinner? 1950's woman looking thoughtful

Unauthenticated contemporary watercolor of Jane Austen

Ormandy visiting the Great Wall of China (photograph, 1973), Eugene Ormandy Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Kinga Araya, Identity Card, and Czecholslovakian passport of Franz Werfel

Title page with woodcut of tooth extraction from "Artzney Buchlein" (Leipzig,1530)

"Utopia Unlimited", poster of 1936 production, Savoy Company Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Art Territory Identity

Fisher Fine Arts Library exhibit

Fine art, Territory, and Identity

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Fisher Exhibition Space , Fisher Fine Arts Library , 1st flooring

Detail from of Charles Godfrey Leland's May 3, 1870 letter to George Henry Baker, UPenn Ms. Coll. 1070

Tancrede Dumas, Arched Street in Jerusalem (photograph, 1870), Lenkin Family Collection of Photographs, Penn Libraries

Lynda Diane Brody, digital illustration, William Shakespeare's Birthday

Shakespeare'due south 451st Altogether Party

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Heart , 6th floor

Shell illustration from Martin Lister, Histori Conchyliorum (London, 1685). Peachey Collection, Kislak Center

Rocky on the Philadelphia Museum steps holding up a cello

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians 5th Almanac Audience Appreciation Solar day

String Trio in the Pavilion

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Detail of interior photograph of the Gilbert Luber Gallery (ca. 1980s), courtesy of Shirley Luber

Alberto Manguel, Wikimedia Commons

Musician with Turkish reed ney

Halper 211 Haggadah for Passover, probably belonging to a Palestinian rite, 10th century-11th century? fol. 7r

William Sanders Scarborough

The Penn Library Collections at 250: From Franklin to the Web

Enid Mark

Detail of Osvaldo Romberg's Analysis of The Baptism of Christ (Piero Della Francesca), collage, pencil and acrylic on paper, 1977

Inventing Liberty

Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai

Hands of pianist Rieko Aizawa and cellist Paul Tortelier at the piano, 1992.

Lecture, performance, & reception

Friday, September 28, 2019, six:fifteen-9:00pm

Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles in Text and Image

Gotham Book Mart graphic: monogram GBM shown with three 18th century men in a boat.

Jay I. Kislak Symposium: Modernism - Materiality - Meaning

Thursday, February 28 - Saturday, March2, 2019

Photo of palm leaf manuscript archive by Anthony M Cerulli

Seeing, Framing, and Experiencing Manuscript Cultures in Contemporary India

Lecture and panel discussion, Th, November v, 5PM

Penn flutes

Cornucopia: Corn Conquers the World

"Lesley Haas, detail of Across the Pond (handmade paper, 1999) courtesy of the artist

Eugene Ormandy Conducting

Frank Stamato, photographer. Van Pelt Library construction, (1962).

Van Pelt at fifty

On exhibit: -

Kamin Gallery , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 1st floor

G.R. Macauley, You Buy a Liberty Bond Lest I Perish, poster (ca.1915), World War 1 Print Media and Art Collection

Emsh, "Have Space Suit-Will Travel", illustration from THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, vol. 15, no. 2 (1958). Mark B. Adams Science-fiction Collection, Kislak Center.

Utopian Explorations and Science Fiction

On exhibit: -

Snyder-Granader Study Alcove , Kislak Eye for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

An Ecotopian Toolkit for the Anthropocene

The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr.

Detail of a butterfly ink jet print

Identification and Preservation of Inkjet Prints in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

Workshop: Thursday, September 12, 9AM-5PM
Cusack Family unit Seminar Room 629, Kislak Center

<em>A Great Unrecorded History</em> volume encompass and portrait of the writer Wendy Moffat and <em>Secret Historian</em> book cover and portrait of the author Justin Spring

Boccaccio, Teseida, MS Codex 254, Kislak Center Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Lope de Vega, title page from El fenix de Espana Lope de Vega Carpio (Valencia 1629). Spanish Culture Class Collection, Kislak Center.

Félix Nadar, Self-Portrait (1854-55), public domain

Ms. Codex 315, Miscellany of religious verse and prose, 15th century, fol. 2r

Cover of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Oxford University Press)

Engraving of Bryen Boiroimhe from Geoffrey Keatings "General History of Ireland". London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for B. Creake, at the Bible, 1723.

detail of cover, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania

Michael Winkler's spelled-forms

Digitally edited theatrical poster featuring woman hanging a broadside proclaiming Come One Come All!

Deciphering the Past

Detail

Image from the Dorothy Searle photograph album (1914-17), Ms. Coll. 848

Initial I with a saint, possibly St. John the Evangelist. Attributed to Sano di Pietro, c. 1470. Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 25:1.

11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Historic period

Illuminations: Manuscript, Medium, Bulletin

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Form of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th flooring

WIC intern in VR goggles

Cover of Willful Blindness, detail

Beitler Drove Distinguished Lecture

The Relevance of Dreyfus

in the Age of ISIS

Grade of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Art of the Print

Fine art of the Print

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Kamin Gallery , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 1st floor

Exhibition closing reception: Thursday, Oct four, v:30pm

Cover for Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis

Okada Gyokuzan, Morokoshi meishō zue

Global Perspectives on the Medieval By

On exhibit: -

Snyder-Granader Study Alcove , Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Detail of bookplate of Eugene Morris Pharo (1893-1945), Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscript

Front View of Stonehenge from William Stukely, Avebury, a Temple of the British Druids and Someothers Described..., (London, 1743), Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photo of research on UPenn Ms Codex 133 (2017) by Erin Connelly

Nikolay Ushin, book cover design for Emil Zola's Germinal (Russia, 1926), Monroe Price Collection, Kislak Center

Ruby Etchings: Soviet Book Illustration from the Drove of Monroe Toll

Invitee curator talk and reception - Tuesday, Oct xv, 2019 at five:30PM

S. A Neff, Jr., detail of binding for The Masters on the Nymph, vol. 1 (ca. 1989-90). Used with permission of the artis

Collage

Detail from a Sicilian medical miscellany (15th century), Ms. Codex 1649, Kislak Center.

Photograph of two loaves of bread on a baking sheet (2011), courtesy of Nick Malgieri

Detail monks with fans illustration from Abhidhamma chet kamphi: Phra Mālai (ca. 1870s). Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts, Kislak Center

Modifed trade card of a combination steam and sail boat, Kaplan Collection.

February xviii, 2014, 9:xxx AM-v:45 PM

Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano (Venetia: Nelle case d'Aldo Romano, 1528)

Book Arts from UArts

detail of LJS 429 - [De philosophia naturali]

Printer, Publisher, Peddler

Polymorphous: The Forms of Artists Books

Listen to the Mockingbird

Sketch of Walt Whitman by William Wallace Gilchrist from the papers of E. Sculley Bradley

Tuesday, May 28 - Exhibition Opening

Tour, reading, book signing, reception

Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial (Washington, 1939), Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, Ms. Coll. 198, Kislak Center

Image of the Cosmic Man, from a copy of the Saṅghayaṇasūtra of Śrīcandrasūri (12th cent). University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Indic 9, fol. 44r.

10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Intertwined Worlds

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Heart for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Eye , sixth floor

Exhibit: Intertwined Worlds

Initial B showing a harpist wearing a crown

Gothic Arts

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

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Course of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Signe Wilkinson, self portrait (ca. 2017)

Birds of Mark Catesby 2012 calendar cover

Equus Unbound: Fairman Rogers and the Age of the Horse

Literae Humaniores

Two woodcuts from Flavius Vegetius Renatus's Vier Bucher der rytterschafft (Erfurt, 1511)

Poster for Word Play exhibit

Word Play:

The Printed Game

On exhibit: -

Kamin Gallery , Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 1st floor

"Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art" (Nadar elevating Photography to Art) Lithograph by Honoré Daumier (Le Boulevard, May 25, 1863).

LJS 47, fol. 41v, showing a chromatic scale diagram, merged with a detail of the linked data model of the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project

12th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Hooking Up

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Gotham Book Mart graphic: monogram GBM shown with three 18th century men in a boat.

Jay I. Kislak Conference to honor the Kislak Middle's Gotham Book Mart Centennial exhibition

Modernism - Materiality - Significant

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Eye for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center , 6th floor

Covers of two journals, The Black Scholar and Black Lesbians, from the Joanna Banks Collection.

Triple image of the Zola caricature, from the catalog cover

Bound to Conserve: The Art of Angling and the Future of Rivers

Sepia photos: Annie Oakley, Pioneer mother, Native American woman

detail from The Battle of the Books (in A Tale of a Tub)

Barbara Henry woodcut of Walt Whitman

A Symposium

Whitman at 200

Looking Back, Looking Forwards

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion , Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Middle , 6th floor

Photo of Walt Whitman

PEAL

reworked detail from a marginal illustration in a Bible, showing a defaced fox preaching to a rooster. Arras, France, late 13th century. University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 724, fol. 247v.

Karen Slack in concert from https://www.facebook.com/pg/SopranoKarenSlack/posts/

Keith Carter. Leaves of Grass #1, 2018-2019, from the series Walt Whitman: Beautiful Imperfect things. Courtesy of the Artist.

Image of horse rider from Nemicandrasūri, Pravacanasārodhārasūtra (India, 1652). University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Indic 26. Kislak Center.

In conjunction with the 10th Annual Schoenberg Symposium of the same theme

Intertwined Worlds

On exhibit: -

Goldstein Family Gallery , Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Heart , 6th flooring

Intertwined Worlds Symposium, Thurs., Nov. 2 - Sat., Nov. 4, 2017

Palm Leafage Workshop with James Canary, Midweek, December half dozen, 2017, 1-5pm

Walt Whitman,

William Steig, Untitled ink drawing of an artist doodling, Steig Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Detail of original watercolor and ink illustration for Richard Egielski's Bravo, Minski ca. 1988, Atha Tehon Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Detail of poster showing Antoniá Badón as Zora Neale Hurston