#MedievalMSS

2022-12-20

Oschinsky Research Associate
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38612/

This role enables a scholar to conduct research in any aspect of the University Library's collections relating to its #medievalManuscripts or #medievalArchive collections, including their #palaeography, #diplomatic
# or #codicology. The Library's medieval manuscript collections include manuscripts in Arabic, Hebrew and other Middle Eastern languages as well as Latin and European vernaculars

#medievalMSS
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Winged lion holding a book. Detail of evangelist portrait of St Mark from the 9th-century Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library MS Ll.1.10)
2022-12-20

#MedievalManuscripts Seminar 2022-23

Kathleen Kennedy, Uof Bristol:
Textura During the ‘Cult of the Flourish’
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/textura-d

Time: 17 Jan 2023 5.30pm (GMT)

Place: Senate House Library, Uof London
(link for remote access may be requested from the organisers:
Julia Crick, King’s College London:
Julia.crick@kcl.ac.uk
David Rundle, Uof Kent: d.g.rundle@kent.ac.uk)

Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Uof London

ies.sas.ac.uk/medieval-manuscr
#paleography #medievalMSS

Photo of a detail from a medieval manuscript page. Text written in textualis in brown ink, with title "De sophisticis" written in blue with red pen-flourishes
2022-12-19

What is #MarcoOxford?

- New search functionality enabling search across(!) #manuscripts and #archives at Oxford
- New online descriptions from special collections for #OrientalMSS #EarlyModernMSS #MedievalMSS
- New online #TEI catalogue for #MedievalCharters and #MedievalSeals

FAMOUS (Finding Archives and MSS Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections) is funded by #MellonFoundation

Project:
bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/librar

MS Image:
Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99a
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/obje

An elephant playing with a ball while a hare looks over; an image from Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99aA storage box of a miscellaneous pile of medieval and early modern charters, with one attached red seal visibleA messy office environment with grey and brown storage boxes for medieval and early modern charter index slips, a laptop with attached screen, and blue and yellow moving crates to the right side.
2022-12-18

#CuriousCures in Cambridge Libraries is a two-year project to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 medieval manuscripts from University and College libraries

We focus on #medievalMSS containing approximately 8,000 unedited medical recipes, but the mss include so much more!

Read more of this #WellcomeTrust funded project from our launch announcement in summer 2022:
cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medi

Drawing of the 'vein man' with descriptions of veins suitable for blood-letting 

Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.9.31
https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/shorthand/233781/zgELFiwDWO/assets/2tl1gBZSbl/o-9-31_070_o-9-31_1-f029v-jp2-750x1003.webp

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