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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 […]

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

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introducing our new conservators

Posted on 3 March 2020 by CUL Conservation

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

Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium and Workshop

Posted on 22 January 2020 by CUL Conservation

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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Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 1.

Posted on 7 October 2019 by CUL Conservation

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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Conservation, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Conserving Darwin’s Library and its curiosities

Posted on 4 August 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Cécilia Duminuco Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) has undoubtedly marked the history of science. Famously known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, the […]

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Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation

Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive

Posted on 15 May 2017 by CUL Conservation

by Fay Humphreys   Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]

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Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation, Exhibitions

Boxing Clever, Round 1: Thinking inside the box

Posted on 19 January 2017 by Gretchen Allen

From the handmade to the mass-produced, bespoke archival boxes protect books in collections, libraries, and archives across the globe. Here at the Cambridge University Library, […]

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