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2012 Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 16-17, 2012
Taxonomies of Knowledge
For information and registration go to the symposium website. |
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NEH Supports Digitization of 17th- and 18th-century Manuscripts
May 10, 2011
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Rare Book & Manuscript Library a grant of $300,000 to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web a collection of approximately 1,000 European and American manuscripts from 1601 to 1800. This two-year project builds on and expands the work of a proposal funded by the NEH in 2009 to digitize Penn's Western manuscripts dated before 1601, which has produced the Web site Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts. Read the full press release.
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NEH Award for Digitization of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
March 14, 2009
The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Penn Libraries a two-year grant for $292,958 to prepare digital facsimiles of approximately 800 European manuscripts from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries. The reproductions will be made available to the public, free of charge, on a website whose innovative interface allows faceted searching. In addition, Penn will provide images and bibliographic information about the 800 items to the Digital Scriptorium, an image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. Imaging will be undertaken by the staff of the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, while the description of the material and the preparation of data for the Digital Scriptorium will take place in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
For more information: Nancy Shawcross, Curator of Manuscripts |
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University's Art Collection Web Site Enhanced
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The University of Pennsylvania Art Collection has a remarkable and eclectic collection of more than 6,000 art objects and artifacts acquired over the past 250 years. The Collection is exhibited in various buildings and outdoor spaces throughout the main campus, the Morris Arboretum and the New Bolton Center. The Collection contains paintings, graphics, photographs, sculptures, decorative objects and artifacts.
Recent enhancements to the site include the addition of over 100 new images, including "Penn Portraits" of former university presidents, faculty, etc. The works can now be easily sorted by genre.
This online virtual museum is a collaboration of the Office of the Curator and SCETI. The virtual museum provides the opportunity to present a selection of art objects from the Collection for viewing in one virtual venue. The Office of the Curator and SCETI staff will continue to develop the virtual museum as new artwork is acquired by the University.
Tour the Art Collection |
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Four New or Enhanced Collections Launched
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Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project
Documents from the Cairo Genizah date from the 9th through through the 15th centuries.They catalogue the social, cultural, and religious lives of Jews around the Mediterranean basin. The fragments were discovered in the late 19th century in the Ben Ezra synagogue in Fustat, a neighborhood in Old Cairo. While most of the fragments eventually wound up at Cambridge, many came to North America. |
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Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Past, Present and Future
The Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures creates a web presentation of the full content of 86 neighborhood planning surveys prepared and published by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. These reports contain descriptions of current conditions of housing stock; population trends; property turnover; public transportation; community activity. Recommendations are made for future action. |
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Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair
This collection is comprised of over 1,000 items documenting the history of the Dreyfus Affair and its impact on the art, society, and politics of France and the modern world. All of the major events of the Affair represented by original items in the collection. |
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The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
Located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania, The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive currently contains over 1800 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and Hebrew. LP phonograph albums, cassettes, and CD's comprise the archive's catalogued holdings. |
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Two New Scholarly Digital Initiatives Funded
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SCETI co-partners with the Penn Museum
In July 2007, SCETI and the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology learned that their co-operative IMLS digitization project was approved. SCETI and the Curators of the American Section of the Museum have received a $130,000.00 grant to digitize the Louis Shotridge Tlingit Collection.
The collection includes 343 artifacts and 2100 archival documents including correspondence, notebooks, photographs, maps and drawings. The project is expected to take two years to complete.
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Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project
In June 2007, Lawrence Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle and the University of Pennsylvania have joined in partnership to develop Larry Schoenberg’s innovative and widely used database which tracks sales and provenance information related to medieval and early renaissance databases. For over ten years, Larry and Barbara managed the database hiring researchers to cull sales records primarily in auction catalogs and antiquarian book dealers lists and catalogs.
In 2005 the SCETI hosted the database and provided maintenance. Today there are 115,000 records in the database. Larry and Barbara have agreed to fund an ambitious five year project to transform the database into one of the most comprehensive bibliographic resources for the study of primary sources in the field of manuscript studies. http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sdm/ |
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