CHARACTERISTIC DUTIESAcquire, appraise, and preserve collections of primary and significant research value, especially rare books.In partnership with ...

A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of MS 328.

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

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Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it i…

The restoration of an 18th century manuscript of liturgical choir songs written in the Abenaki language will be an important resource for language revitalization efforts in Odanak, Que.

Vol. 6, No. 4 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks

[eb-GB]Adlib Internet Server is a complete application to make the collections of archives, museums and libraries accessible over the internet. Adlib Internet Server is an add-on to the professional c...

The findings from volumes kept in a Cistercian monastery in France shed new light on a robust medieval trade network that went well beyond local sourcing

Our Doctoral Open Days are for any PhD students interested in working with our collection during their studies. Each Open Day showcases a different area of

Digitized music manuscripts, letters, and other rare music materials held in the Department of Special Collections and the Music Library.

Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. - Volume 68 Issue 4

Interested in Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle?

As part of a series of experiential learning projects, I will be preparing and using a variety of historic materials. The objective here is less about perfecting these historic methods (in terms of…

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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