Title: Visiting Research Fellowship
Institution: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Applicants: Scholars with graduate Ph.D. before fellowship’s end; independent scholars encouraged
Stipend: $5,000
Duration: 4 weeks, July – June of fellowship year
Description: “The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is accepting applications for the 2020-2021Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of premodern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.”
Website: here.
Pictured manuscript: MS. Codex 2047; al-Qurʼān