Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join curator Dot Porter of the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and Mary Yearl, and Prof. Faith Wallis of McGill University, for a special joint edition of Coffee with a Codex looking at two medical Manuscripts.
We will be looking through the "Carmen de urinis with the Commentary of Gilbert the Englishman", a new acquisition at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, along with Manuscript LJS 24 from the Kislak collection. See the digitized versions of these manuscripts online:
Corbeil: archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_versus-egidij-de-vrina_WJ146G464v1200z-21946
LJS 24: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9952666523503681
As curators, we often speak about and for our collections – in this event we are going to let our collections talk to each other, putting both up onscreen for close examination and comparison. We will compare notes, marginalia, and medical manuscript traditions in this joint edition of “Coffee with a Codex.” We invite you to grab a cup of coffee and tune in over lunch for an hour with these medical manuscripts!
See the Coffee with a Codex series here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/coffee-codex
Join curator Dot Porter of the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and Mary Yearl, and Prof. Faith Wallis of McGill University, for a special joint edition of Coffee with a Codex looking at two medical Manuscripts.
We will be looking through the "Carmen de urinis with the Commentary of Gilbert the Englishman", a new acquisition at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, along with Manuscript LJS 24 from the Kislak collection. See the digitized versions of these manuscripts online:
Corbeil: archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_versus-egidij-de-vrina_WJ146G464v1200z-21946
LJS 24: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9952666523503681
As curators, we often speak about and for our collections – in this event we are going to let our collections talk to each other, putting both up onscreen for close examination and comparison. We will compare notes, marginalia, and medical manuscript traditions in this joint edition of “Coffee with a Codex.” We invite you to grab a cup of coffee and tune in over lunch for an hour with these medical manuscripts!
See the Coffee with a Codex series here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events/coffee-codex
