Manuscripts – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story

Posted on 31 December 2022 by Special Collections

This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Curious Cures, 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

Charming creepy-crawlies in the Middle Ages

Posted on 4 October 2022 by Clarck Drieshen

Animals often crop up among the medical recipes in the over 180 medieval manuscripts that Cambridge University Library is currently conserving, cataloguing, and digitising in […]

Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medicine, 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

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: A final farewell from the Conservation Team

Posted on 19 May 2022 by CUL Conservation

Conservation work on the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project was completed way back in 2021 but our conservators have recently taken the time to reflect […]

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

Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns

Posted on 5 May 2022 by Suzanne Paul

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. […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Pembroke College, Special Collections

Conservation for a Legendary Exhibition

Posted on 20 April 2022 by CUL Conservation

Cambridge University Library is home to one of the pre-eminent collections of Japanese material outside of Japan, including one of the first Japanese books ever to reach British shores. In […]

Conservation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Unpublished manuscripts of Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria

Posted on 1 April 2022 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is thrilled to report that it has been donated the unpublished manuscripts of the important Kenyan journalist and writer Henry […]

Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 5

Posted on 22 March 2022 by CUL Conservation

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 […]

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

A unique treasure: Johann Wansleben’s Ethiopic notes and letters

Posted on 9 February 2022 by Catherine Ansorge

The manuscripts written in the Ethiopic language held in Cambridge University Library number fewer than seventy volumes in all, and for the most part, these […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Rare Books, Special Collections, Travel

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