Medieval manuscripts – Page 2 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Charming creepy-crawlies in the Middle Ages

Posted on 4 October 2022 by Clarck Drieshen

Animals often crop up among the medical recipes in the over 180 medieval manuscripts that Cambridge University Library is currently conserving, cataloguing, and digitising in […]

Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: A final farewell from the Conservation Team

Posted on 19 May 2022 by CUL Conservation

Conservation work on the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project was completed way back in 2021 but our conservators have recently taken the time to reflect […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns

Posted on 5 May 2022 by Suzanne Paul

Big celebrations are taking place this year in the town of Bury St Edmunds, marking the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of its Benedictine abbey. […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Pembroke College, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 5

Posted on 22 March 2022 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to the last instalment of the conservator’s challenge. In this post we will see CUL MS Dd.4.39 and CUL MS Add.1840 in their finished […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript

Posted on 18 October 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts

Conservation Conversations: Making Models

Posted on 4 August 2021 by Special Collections

As part of the Alumni Festival, all are welcome to join the Conservation team at the University Library as they discuss and demonstrate the making […]

Conservation, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, French, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 4

Posted on 8 April 2021 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to another Polonksy Foundation Greek Manuscripts blogpost. We have an update on the treatment of CUL MS Dd.4.39 an 11th century Psalter and CUL […]

Conservation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections, Uncategorized

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 3

Posted on 25 March 2021 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts blogpost. In this post we will be updating you all on the conservation treatments of CUL MS Dd.4.39 […]

Conservation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek