William Bedwell – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript

Posted on 13 September 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

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 […]

Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions

Posted on 12 June 2020 by Special Collections

In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Library history, Manuscripts, Special Collections