Manuscripts – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A previously unrecorded sewing technique from the 12th Century.

Posted on 11 April 2019 by CUL Conservation

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 […]

Conservation, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Judicial Combat

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Frank

These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]

Manuscripts

Islamic Codicology at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 3 October 2017 by Yasmin

Every autumn – since 2006 – Cambridge University Library is hosting an Introduction to Islamic Codicology, a one week course and workshop on the material and artistic […]

Conservation, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation, Exhibitions

Extract from Maps.Ms.Plans.R.c.1 "Map of the Maingnyaung region" ca. 1860

Mapping the Maps – a guest post from Natasha Pairaudeau

Posted on 18 April 2017 by Anne Taylor

Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]

Burma, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Maps, South Asian, Special Collections

Bringing a hidden collection to light

Posted on 7 April 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Anna Johnson Cambridge University Library may not often be thought of as a significant repository for papyri, but we do have a moderately […]

Conservation, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Papyrus, Special Collections

A conference on conserving, curating and creating access to papyri in Cambridge

Posted on 15 March 2017 by Yasmin

The Third Papyrus Curatorial and Conservations Meeting. Following the first two successful meetings at the British Museum, this meeting will take place on 29–30 June […]

Papyrus

Solomon Negri and the ‘Marvels of Creation’

Posted on 20 February 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]

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

‘It’s all in a day’s work’: the Royal Greenwich Observatory Audio-Visual Collection, Stories of Observatory Life

Posted on 21 September 2015 by Dr Emma Saunders

For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. Observing distant stars, recording sunspots, […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Special Collections

Conservation of the Lewis-Gibson Collection: re-treatment of manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Posted on 20 July 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Mary French, Rebecca Goldie and Emma Nichols Cambridge University Library (the UL) contains the largest collection of medieval Jewish writings in the world. Around […]

Conservation, Lewis-Gibson Collection