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- Save the Date for the 2026 Schoenberg Symposium! Stranger Things, November 12–14, 2026. Learn more about this year's symposium.
- Read the Summer 2026 issue of our newsletter here, and subscribe to receive all future monthly updates on our activities.
- The Spring 2026 issue (Vol. 11.1) of Manuscript Studies is now available in Diamond-level Open Access via Project Muse, as are all previous issues.
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- Learn about how SIMS staff and fellows are using the eScriptorium platform to build machine-learning models that can transcribe handwritten manuscripts from across the world in this recent Penn Libraries News story: Reading manuscripts in the digital space: How the Penn Libraries is advancing Handwritten Text Recognition.
- SIMS is excited to announce the following Visiting Research Fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year: Ali Noori (Fordham University), Hanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes), and Emanuele Scieri (University of Glasgow).
- Discover BASIRA, the Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art database, a new digital resource for book history hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Enter the database or visit the project website to learn more.
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June 11, 2026
Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy Manuscript in Rochester, NY
On June 11, curator Dot Porter will be attending a workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. While there, she will visit the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and bring out their 15th c. copy of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi (On the Sphere of the World).
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Online
Open to the Public
- Workshop
June 18, 2026
Coffee with a Codex: Two Illuminated Jewish Marriage Contracts
On June 18, curator Dot Porter will be joined by Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman, who will show us two illuminated ketubahs, or Jewish marriage contracts.
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Online
Open to the Public
- Workshop
June 25, 2026
Coffee with a Codex: Penitential Psalms in French
On June 25, curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1564, a copy of the Penitential Psalms in French, written in France in the 17th century.
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Online
Open to the Public
