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Translating Persian Tafsir in Aceh: The Oldest Malay “Story of Joseph” at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 14 August 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

This post is written by Dr Majid Daneshgar who recently completed his Munby fellowship at Cambridge University Library and is now Associate Professor of Area […]

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Manuscripts, South-east Asian, Special Collections

A newly-discovered Malay manuscript in Erpenius’ library: An old booklet of supplication

Posted on 29 March 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

While reconstructing the personal library of Thomas Erpenius (d. 1624) kept at Cambridge University Library (CUL) as part of my Munby fellowship, I have been […]

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Manuscripts, South Asian, South-east Asian, 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 […]

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

The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures

Posted on 21 April 2016 by Yasmin

Eighty years ago in 1936 Cambridge University Library received a manuscript, bequeathed  by its owner Agnes Smith Lewis at her death in 1926. It is […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

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