Fragments – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium

Posted on 7 August 2023 by James Freeman

‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Digital Resources, Events, Fragments, Incunabula, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Piecing together the law: fragments of medieval legal manuscripts at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 4 August 2023 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Héléna Lagreou, who is studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. The work she describes here was conducted […]

Fragmentarium project, Fragments, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Fragmentary strips of medieval manuscripts

Fragments, fragments, fragments

Posted on 18 January 2023 by Special Collections

A guest post by Matthew Coulter In libraries across the world there are boxes and boxes of fragments from medieval texts. Between the 15th and […]

Fragmentarium project, Fragments, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Introducing the CUL Additional Fragments Project or Three Lessons in Fragmentology

Posted on 1 December 2022 by Special Collections

A post by Dr Marie Turner. A square of parchment no larger than a postage stamp, bearing a scattering of words from a Middle English […]

Fragmentarium project, Fragments, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Printing, Paper, and Provenance Projects in the Post-Medieval Genizah Collection

Posted on 19 July 2022 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Nick Posegay. One of the special collections here at the CUL is the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection. It contains over 190,000 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Fragments, Hebrew, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

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: Apart … together

Posted on 12 November 2019 by Special Collections

In a previous #PolonskyGreek project blogpost Conserving fragments, conservators discussed their work on the fragments; this blogpost describes how cataloguers can deal with the challenges […]

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

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Conserving fragments

Posted on 19 August 2019 by CUL Conservation

Since the introductory blogpost from conservation on The Polonsky Greek Manuscripts Project, we have made a lot of progress, having completed the survey of the […]

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