Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns
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. […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 5
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 […]
Continue reading »A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript
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 […]
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Conservation Conversations: Making Models
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 […]
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Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret
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 […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 4
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 […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 3
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 […]
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An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 2)
Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]
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An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 1)
Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 3.
Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation update! This is the final instalment in our Medieval Eastern Mediterranean binding model. Previously, we covered our […]
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