Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away - Episode 2. LJS 449

On October 8, 2018, Dr. Brandon Hawk and curator Dot Porter met to talk about these ancient books, and to compare them with manuscripts from the collection of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. This series is a record of those discussions.

LJS 449
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A glimpse from the middle of our conversation, we talk about at LJS 449, a fifteenth-century German miscellany containing astronomical, astrological, and medical texts. We discuss how these three topics, considered quite separate by most people today, were part of a whole for medieval people, and we contemplate how this holistic approach might be evident in the Jedi texts as well.

Images of the “Tree Library” by Seth Engstrom & Rodolfo Damaggio
Mock-ups of four Jedi books by James Carson
Mock-ups for six pages from the Jedi books by Chris Kitisakkul

[bookhoarding]

I really appreciate how much research y'all have put into these!