Erpenius’ ‘Coptic’ manuscript at Cambridge University Library
Since Thomas Erpenius’ death in November 1624, a large number of scholars have been writing about the importance of his personal library which arrived at […]
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Erpenius’s Royal Manuscript of a Persian Ruler at Cambridge University Library
It is not an exaggeration to say that the oriental manuscripts collected by Thomas Erpenius and kept at Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) since 1632 […]
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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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Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in Karbala
This post is by Munby Fellow Dr Majid Daneshgar, whose project for 2022/23 is entitled Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global […]
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A game of stones – how Cambridge acquired a cast of the Rosetta Stone
Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1822, the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790–1832) succeeded in his attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic text of the famous Rosetta […]
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Printing, Paper, and Provenance Projects in the Post-Medieval Genizah Collection
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 […]
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A unique treasure: Johann Wansleben’s Ethiopic notes and letters
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 […]
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New Munby Fellow for 2021-22
We are delighted to introduce the new Munby Fellow for 2021-22, Dr Heather Wolfe, who will be working on a research project on ‘Decoding early […]
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James Rendel Harris: a Bible scholar on a quest for manuscripts
The later decades of the nineteenth century witnessed new directions being forged in the study of biblical texts, as new manuscript discoveries stimulated advances in […]
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Grounds for enthusiasm: the University Library outside
The appearance mid-April of foodPark. in front of the UL is only the most recent innovative use of the grounds in a crisis. During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]
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