Culinary inspiration and dietary counsel from the Curious Cures project
Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime?
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A cracking medical manuscript under the microscope
This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. Rachel Sawicki, Project Conservator, and Sarah Gilbert, Project Cataloguer, […]
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Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon
This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]
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Taking Curious Cures from Cambridge to Copenhagen
Our Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project conservators Marina Pelissari and Rachel Sawicki recently presented a paper at the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts Seminar […]
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Piecing together the law: fragments of medieval legal manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
This guest post is by Héléna Lagreou, who is studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. The work she describes here was conducted […]
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The Autograph of al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī (d. 502/1109): A Very Early Source for the Poetry of al-Maʿarrī.
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]
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Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions
This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.
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Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo
This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]
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Two Decades of Digital Photography in the Library: Evolution of Practice and Technology
Post by Maciej M. Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, and Raffaella Losito, Photographer When photographers are working on the digitisation of special collections, they […]
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‘For no cause but for the healing and help of them’: medieval gynaecology as a female discipline
Guest post by Sarah Friedman, PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thanks to research grants from the Medieval Academy of America and […]
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