Medieval manuscripts – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 1)

Posted on 11 January 2021 by Special Collections

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 […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 3.

Posted on 17 December 2020 by CUL Conservation

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 […]

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

Death, scandal and a disputed election

Posted on 3 November 2020 by James Freeman

To write of a disputed election at this moment in time may be thought to invite controversy, to tempt fate, or at least to be […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085

Posted on 5 October 2020 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on […]

Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Digitisation, Fragments, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 2.

Posted on 2 October 2020 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. In this blogpost we will be sharing our next steps of the creation of the Medieval […]

Conservation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Digitisation of the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a reflection on digital technologies and collective memory

Posted on 1 June 2020 by Special Collections

My name is Raffaella Losito, and in March 2020 I had the great privilege to join the Digital Content Unit team as a Digitisation Technician […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Greek, Illustration, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Salisbury Cathedral’s 800th anniversary and a medieval poem in Cambridge University Library

Posted on 5 May 2020 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young. On 28 April 1220 Bishop Richard Poore laid the foundation stone of Salisbury Cathedral, which is unique among English […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 2

Posted on 21 April 2020 by CUL Conservation

Since conservation’s last post we have been very busy. We have continued to work on the Cambridge University Library material, have completed work on Christ’s, […]

Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introducing our new conservators

Posted on 3 March 2020 by CUL Conservation

We are Marina Pelissari and Marie Renaudin, the new conservators joining the thrilling Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project team! In 2019 we both qualified as […]

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

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: quires reunited

Posted on 10 February 2020 by Special Collections

Cataloguing the Greek manuscripts of Cambridge in the context of the Polonsky Foundation project allows new insight in the collections. By examining the manuscripts one […]

Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

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