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That’s a wrap on 100 images from Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries From Philadelphia Libraries! http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/

Pierpaolo Muscharello Algorismus (On Algebra) Nola, 1478; scribe: Pierpaolo Muscharello (colophon, fol. 101r) University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 27 Pierpaolo Muscharello Algorismus (On Algebra) Nola, 1478; scribe: Pierpaolo Muscharello (colophon, fol. 101r) University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 27

Charging into a new week! ♞♘ Compilation of texts including Jacobus de Cessolis, De ludo scacchorum seu de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium (Book of the Game of Chess, or, The Customs of Men and the Duties of Nobles) Northern Italy, 1409 University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 267

Book of Hours, Use of Rome Siena, ca. 1475; illuminators: Liberale da Verona (miniatures) and Gioacchino de Gigantibus (borders and illuminated initials) The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 118

Cicero; Orationes (Orations) Venice, printed not after 1471 Illuminator: Giovanni Vendramin The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Inc 471ci (1062/24)

Illuminated initial showing a Priest Celebrating Mass; border cartouche with deer; border roundel with deer, possibly from the Missal of Lucrezia de’ Medici Possibly Venice, 1475–76 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 27:27–29

Grumpy Cats- Early Modern Edition Commissione issued to Andrea di Giorgio Valier by Leonardo Loredan Venice, 1502; illuminator: First Pisani Master Lehigh University, Codex 21 (acc. no. 23452)

Historical Miscellany including Paul the Deacon, Historia romana (Roman History) Italy (Lombardy or Piedmont?), ca. 1450 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 71