The Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages
A guest post from Johanna Jebe, Maximilian Nix, Luise Nöllemeyer, Bastiaan Waagmeester and Elena Ziegler, PhD students from the University of Tübingen.
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Puzzling Scribes and Medieval Puzzles: Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson
Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]
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Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney
By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]
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New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’
The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]
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The Digital Recovery of a Lost Page of Codex Bezae
A guest post by Elijah Hixson. Elijah is currently finishing his PhD on 6th-century Greek manuscripts of the Gospels at the University of Edinburgh.
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On the 19th and 20th of October a conference was held in Basel to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the explorer John […]
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In 2015, the Sandars Reader in Bibliography was Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography at the Faculty of English. The subject of […]
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Thom Gunn revived and remembered
On Thursday 26 October the University Library is offering a chance to join poet Clive Wilmer at the launch of his Faber edition of the […]
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Islamic Codicology at Cambridge University Library
Every autumn – since 2006 – Cambridge University Library is hosting an Introduction to Islamic Codicology, a one week course and workshop on the material and artistic […]
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Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack
There is often more to the books in Cambridge University’s Rare Books Room than meets the eye, with many of them containing unique handwritten accessory […]
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