… ‘base beggarly rogue’, ‘false perjurer’, ‘knave and rascal’, ‘errant thief’, ‘pick-pocket, cheating whore and cut-purse’, ‘forsworn man’, ‘witch’, ‘night-walker’, ‘rank rogue’ … At first glance the insults listed above may have been lifted directly from one of Shakespeare’s […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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On Wednesday 18th March the University Library closed its doors to readers, in line with government advice around COVID-19. That afternoon saw many of Cambridge’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg proudly presents Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project has been a great support in encouraging continued professional development within the project. In this blog post we will […]
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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 […]
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