Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon
This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]
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The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript
Dr Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Study at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was previously Munby Fellow 2022-23 […]
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A Persian Manuscript for Samuel Pepys: Naval Networks and Indology in Restoration England
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]
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Translating Persian Tafsir in Aceh: The Oldest Malay “Story of Joseph” at Cambridge University Library
This post is written by Dr Majid Daneshgar who recently completed his Munby fellowship at Cambridge University Library and is now Associate Professor of Area […]
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The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium
‘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 […]
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Two Decades of Digital Photography in the Library: Evolution of Practice and Technology
Post by Maciej M. Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, and Raffaella Losito, Photographer When photographers are working on the digitisation of special collections, they […]
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The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library
This post is co-written by Dr Majid Daneshgar (Munby Fellow, CUL) & Prof. Edwin Wieringa (Professor of Indonesian Philology and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne, […]
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Erpenius’s Indian Manuscripts: Old Telugu Texts at Cambridge University Library
Among the rich collection of oriental manuscripts belonging to Thomas Erpenius (d. 1624), there are still some items whose identity has remained obscure for centuries. […]
Continue reading »A newly-discovered Malay manuscript in Erpenius’ library: An old booklet of supplication
While reconstructing the personal library of Thomas Erpenius (d. 1624) kept at Cambridge University Library (CUL) as part of my Munby fellowship, I have been […]
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‘For no cause but for the healing and help of them’: medieval gynaecology as a female discipline
Guest post by Sarah Friedman, PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thanks to research grants from the Medieval Academy of America and […]
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