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Collation Model for LJS 347: De consolatione philosophiae
Get PDF14th-century English copy of Boethius\u27 philosophical dialogue in five books between a narrator and Lady Philosophy which deals with ideas of fate, fortune, and the relationship between free will and divine omniscience, and which was one of the most important philosophical texts of the medieval period. The text alternates between Metrum (verse) and Prosa (prose), and this copy of the text begins with the fifth metrum of Book 2. The text of Books 2 and 3 is fairly heavily marked with interlinear glosses and occasional marginal notes and manicules, and has simple ornamental initials and rubrication; the remainder of the manuscript has only occasional interlinear glosses and spaces with guide letters for initials.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1056/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1056: [Book of hours [manuscript] : use of Rouen].
Get PDFBook of hours produced in Rouen and illuminated for a local woman, including calendar, Office of the Virgin, Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Office of the Dead, and two accessory texts.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1069/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Oversize Ms. Codex 1446: [Medici contracts]
Get PDFA collection of contracts involving Carlo Bernardo Alamanni de\u27 Medici, most concerning property and goods, but many also concerning debts, sales, purchasing of titles, and inheritances. Some regard ecclesiastical properties. The title page (f. i recto) contains a later list of revised deeds, organized by year and page number, dated 1656. Divided into sections based on date, from 1552 to 1569. Most of the interactions and goods described are located near or in Florence. Many concern Giovanni Baptista Detti, Camillo de\u27 Medici, Francisco from the ship Decumano, and a Bartolomeo. Many of the properties have been entrusted to Carlo de\u27 Medici, who then rented them out. Details included about the various properties regard crops, houses, the kinds of trees on a property, barrels for wine, and so on. Last quire is detached from the rest of the codex. Contains marginal notes, mostly in Italian summarizing the Latin text, throughout, as well as a few notarial signets. Notaries include Franciscus de Jordanis (f. 14r), Joannes Baptiste de Jordanis (f. 14r), and Sebastian de Franceschis Vicchi (f. 15r).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1070/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1603: [Gathering from glossed Second Corinthians]
Get PDFSix conjugate folios from Paul\u27s second epistle to the Corinthians (Nam gloria nostra ... nos credimus, 2 Corinthians 1.12-4.13), with glosses from Peter Lombard\u27s Collectanea, also referred to as the Magna glossatura.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1071/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for LJS 473: [L\u27arte del navegare].
Get PDFTreatise on ships and shipbuilding, including information on cartography, construction and use of the compass, types of ships, and meteorology and astronomy for use in navigation. Includes references to classical and medieval authors, which at the beginning of the manuscript are noted in the margins with red ink (f. 1v-4r). Dedicated to the doge (Cristoforo Moro, who served 1462-1471) and senate of Venice.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1080/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for LJS 27: Algorismus.
Get PDFPedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals and problems illustrated with scenes from daily life.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1073/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1130: In Aristotelis libros de generatione et corruptione . . .
Get PDFLecture notes on scholastic philosophy, comprising commentaries on two works by Aristotle and a work on metaphysics concerning the concept of being (ratio entis), the distinction between essence and existence, and real, formal, and virtual distinctions.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1087/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1077: [Alexander] ...[etc.]
Get PDFA German poem in rhymed couplets on the life of Alexander the Great, based on the Latin prose work Historia de preliis, by Archipresbyter Leo. The second work in the codex, Grisardis, is a prose narration of the Griselda legend, a moralistic tale about a virtuous prince (margrave) and a humble maiden, here named Grisardis; Erhart Gross\u27s tale is an adaptation of the version of the story related in the last novella of Boccaccio\u27s Decameron (La novella di Griselda). This manuscript of Grisardis was formerly attributed to Albrecht von Eyb. The third work in the codex, Eurialus und Lucretia, is Niklas von Wyle\u27s German translation of the tale of the two lovers Eurialus and Lucretia (De duobus amantibus), composed in Latin by Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1084/thumbnail.jp
Experimental And Computational Analyses Of Locomotor Rhythm Generation And Modulation In Caenorhabditis Elegans
Get PDFNeural circuits coordinate with muscles and sensory feedback to generate motor behaviors appropriate to its natural environment. Studying mechanisms underlying complex organism locomotion has been challenging, partly due to the complexity of their nervous systems. Here, I used the roundworm C. elegans to understand the locomotor circuit. With its well-mapped nervous system, easily-measurable movements, genetic manipulability, and many human homologous genes, C. elegans has been commonly used as a model organism for dissecting the circuit, cellular, and molecular principles of locomotion. My work introduces two separate approaches to probe the mechanisms by which the C. elegans motor circuit generates and modulates undulations. First, I quantified C. elegans movements during free locomotion and during transient muscle inhibition. Undulations were asymmetrical with respect to the duration of bending and unbending per cycle. Phase response curves induced by brief optogenetic head muscle inhibitions showed gradual increases and rapid decreases as a function of phase at which the perturbation was applied. A relaxation oscillator model was developed based on proprioceptive thresholds that switch the active muscle moment. It quantitatively agrees with data from free movement, phase responses, and previous results for gait adaptation to mechanical loads. Next, I characterized a proprioception-mediated compensatory behavior during C. elegans forward locomotion: the anterior body bending amplitude compensates for the change in midbody bending amplitude by an opposing homeostatic response. I demonstrated that curvature compensation requires dopamine signaling driven by PDE neurons. Calcium imaging experiments suggested a proprioceptive functionality for PDE in sensing midbody curvature. Downstream of PDE dopamine signaling, curvature compensation requires D2-like dopamine receptor DOP-3 in the interneurons AVK. FMRFamide-like neuropeptide FLP-1, released by AVK, regulates SMB motor neurons via receptor NPR-6 to modulate anterior bending amplitude. These results revealed a mechanism whereby proprioception works with dopamine and neuropeptide signaling to mediate homeostatic locomotor control. Together, through a consolidation of experimental and computational approaches, I found C. elegans utilizes its circuitry not only to act motor behaviors but to adjust/correct its ongoing behaviors in its natural contexts
Nebulous Figures: A Cultural History Of An American Riotocracy, 1848-1929
Get PDFIn the 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx outlines a collective grouping of “nebulous figures” who exist outside the wage relation and remain merely specters upon the terrain of bourgeois political economy, lives only recognized during the working hours of the production process. This project explores how cultural representations of these nebulous figures during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America evince a social desire to abolish the form of wage labor itself, a political modality articulated by Herman Melville in his 1854 novella The Encantadas as a “Riotocracy.” Rather than looking to depictions of work, this project focuses upon elucidating how portrayals of those on the outsides and undersides of wage labor reveal a robust critical capacity for conceptualizing the rejection of work within capitalism as a form of communistic poiesis, a fundamentally creative act of collective worldmaking. Chapter I demonstrates how idleness disrupts the spatio-temporal rhythm of capitalism’s workday and argues that it signals a revolutionary desire for free time. Chapter II turns to the tramp as a nebulous figure who both constructs a commons upon the private property of capital’s commodity flows and crafts a collectivist aesthetic grounded in riotocratic aims. Chapter III examines American realist and naturalist novels at the fin de siècle, positing that the literary depictions of nebulous figures therein continually evade and exceed these genres’ attempts at representational totality. Chapter IV analyzes a variety of formal representational strategies which each attempt to tie life on the outskirts of the wage to a revelation of material reality. The conclusion looks to the political afterlife of the riotocracy from the 1930s to the present. In tracing a political economic theorizing from below, this study identifies these nebulous figures and their riotocratic political desire as thoroughly embedded within nineteenth- and twentieth-century American cultural production and concludes that the anti-work utopianism of those on the margins of wage labor manifests in the assembly of improvisatory commons rooted in a restaging of value