Scholars Make Progress, Find Surprises, on Edward IV Roll Project. Update on the Edward IV Roll Project: Earlier this year, the American Branch funded four scholars at the University of Pennsylvania to begin transcribing and translating Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis MS E201 – a long, multi-membrane propaganda scroll combining a chronicle of the history of the world from Creation with a genealogy of Edward IV, effectively marrying Biblical authority
American Branch Gives Grant Money for Innovative Edward IV Roll Project The Richard III Society-American Branch is pleased to announce that it has provided $3,000 in funding to four scholars at the University of Pennsylvania for the first phase of a multi-phase project to transcribe, translate, and digitally map the text of Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis MS E201, a 19-foot propaganda genealogy of Edward IV lavishly illustrated with portraits,
As we Zoom into the year 2022, it’s terrific to know that many scholarly institutions are maintaining a program of talks that will be of great interest to Ricardians and medievalists alike. Here are two very intriguing talks that are available to on-line audiences, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute. They involve the study of pre-modern books and manuscripts. The first talk involves a genealogy called the Canterbury
