Episode 26: Pore Caitif (Poor Wretch)
Hosted by Joseph Kopta
Release date: January 22, 2025
About this episode of A Look at a Book
About the host:
Dr. Joseph Kopta (he/they) is Assistant Professor of Instruction, Art History, at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, and a specialist in manuscripts and the medieval world.
Links:
Pore Caitif (Poor Wretch) [SPC) MSS LT 085]
Possibly Dame Margaret Hasley, scribe
ca. 15th century CE, London, Kingdom of England (present-day United Kingdom)
Ink on paper in 16th-century black Moroccan leather binding
Digitized manuscript at Temple Digital Collections
Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Repository
Digitally flip through this book on BiblioPhilly
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