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  

 Catalogue Record 

 Digitized manuscript at Temple Digital Collections 

 Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis Repository 

Digitally flip through this book on BiblioPhilly 

Catalogue Entry in The Art of the Book: Treasures from the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries 

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