Shakespeare’s First Folio conserved
The University Library is very lucky to have copies of all four Shakespeare folios printed in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1664 & 1685). The […]
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Finding ‘niger morocco’ on a map: a conservation study day on West African leather in Cambridge
This post is by Dr Ayesha Fuentes, an objects conservator and researcher specializing in the care and handling of archaeological and anthropological collections, based at […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 2.
Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. In this blogpost we will be sharing our next steps of the creation of the Medieval […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 1.
Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. Since our last update on conserving fragments we have made great progress with the treatment of […]
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A previously unrecorded sewing technique from the 12th Century.
Posted on 11/04/2019 by Jim Bloxam A new essay, by Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson, has been published in Suave Mechanicals: Essays in the History of […]
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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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