{"id":4485,"date":"2020-02-12T21:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:29:05","slug":"making-the-renaissance-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2020\/02\/12\/making-the-renaissance-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Renaissance Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Special Collections Research Center is very pleased to announce the opening of Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries<\/a>, an exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania.  It features a manuscript from Temple’s Harry  C. Cochran History of Business Collection, built by a Temple business school faculty member.  Temple is one of nine regional lenders to this exhibition of eighty-eight items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our item is included in the “Politics, Economics, and the Merchant Class” section of the exhibition–and in the stunning exhibition catalog which accompanies it.   In addition, Curator Nick Herman’s blog<\/a> provides additional context and information.   A codex in Italian, created by Giorgio de Lorenzo Chiarini (circa 1400-     ), “Tracta di mercantie et usanze di paesi (Book of Trade and Customs of Countries),” Florence, Italy, 1481, the manuscript is  a “commercial manual for the Renaissance merchant.” It features the “types of goods available in a large number of cities, as well as the units of measure and coinage used, their denominations, and their exchanges rates with principal domestic currencies.”  <\/p>\n\n\n

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The exhibit, and its sister exhibit, Reflections on Medieval Life,<\/em> soon to open at the Free Library of Philadelphia, are a celebration of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries’  Council on Library and Information Resources  Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis<\/a> project, It supported digitization and enhanced cataloging of medieval and renaissance manuscripts throughout the region–including 43 from Temple<\/a>.  The Free Lbrary exhibition will feature two additional items from Temple’s Cochran collection–more on that soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Margery N. Sly, Director, SCRC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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