See you next year @theul.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
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Our Conservation team has created a pigment for research using woad grown in their Dye Garden at the UL. 🌱
This video explains the process! 🧪
#DyeGarden #PracticeBasedResearch #Woad #CULConservation #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #OrganicPigment #NaturalColourants
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Autumn days in Cambridge 🍂
@theul.bsky.social @clarecollege @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
looking splendid on a crisp cold day.
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Details of a fragment from an Abbasid Qur’an 📚
Iron gall ink on perfect parchment 🐑
@theul.bsky.social MS Add.1118, 3/4th century AH/ 9/10th century CE
#IslamicManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #Parchment #JummahMubarak
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Gold on parchment with purple accents 📚
@theul.bsky.social MS Add.2964, one juz of an Abbasid Qur’an, ninth or tenth century C.E.
#QuranManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #ParchmentManuscript #AbbasidManuscript
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The next Research Café event will take place at West Hub on 19 June. The theme is AI and Research.
Book your ticket to the next event now: loom.ly/AZH0Qhw
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A member of the UL's Conservation team planting a seeding in a flower bed.
A paper bag full of seeds ready to be planted.
Little seedlings growing in the courtyard of the UL. We see a wooden plant label that says: "The Dye Garden".
Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden
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#CULconservation are having a #CC20 watch party 📚
Excellent papers from colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @thejohnrylands.bsky.social among others.
#CareandConservationOfManuscripts #CambridgeUniversityLibraries @theul.bsky.social
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Manuscripts and books being carefully placed on their cradles for the Curious Cures exhibition.
It’s all hands on deck in #CULconservation as our Conservation team prepares objects for the next exhibition, Curious Cures: medicine in the medieval world.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #BookConservation #CuriousCures
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Today is #WorldPigmentDay so an exciting time for these beautiful (unassuming) plants to arrive @theul.bsky.social 🌱
Colourful adventures to follow with #CULconservation 🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #MedievalPalette #PracticeBasedResearch
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Nowruz Mubarak! 🌱
MS Eton Pote 267, al-Ṣaḥīfat al-Kāmilah, dated 1066AH/ 1656 @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
#cambridgeuniversitylibraries #Nowruz #SpringEquinox #IslamicManuscript
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It’s been a minute since we last added to our #CambridgeLibraryBingo card, but spring is in the air so #CULconservation took a stroll to the Wren library @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
#cambridgeuniversitylibraries #Bibliophiles #WrenLibrary #WorldBookDay @theul.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social
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A day late for #LibraryShelfieDay but this @theul.bsky.social scene was too good not to share!
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #LibraryBooks inspired by New York Public Library’s first #shelfie in 2014 📚
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Two peregrines @theul.bsky.social this morning.
They took it in turns to circle the tower before alighting, all the while calling gently (for a peregrine) to one another.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterWatch #ULBiodiversity #ULbirdwatching @camperegrines.bsky.social
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—with their gospels—in the Book of Cerne 📚
Manuscript #BooksInBooks for #ManuscriptMonday plus something for @themerl.bsky.social 🐄
@theul.bsky.social MS Ll.1.10, Mercia, c.820
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues looking at an old book in the studio.
The visit focused on the exchange of experiences around the consolidation of pigments, looking at case studies from the UL’s amazing special collections.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation
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The Cambridge University Library Conservation Department receives a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC). We see a group of conservation colleagues chatting in the studio.
Last year the Cambridge University Library Conservation Department received a visit from colleagues at the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC).
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #ConservationCommunity #BookConservation #PigmentConsolidation #KnowledgeSharing
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Some glorious #BooksInBooks for the first #ManuscriptMonday of 2025 📚
@theul.bsky.social Dd.9.18, Dicts of Philosophers, 15th century, England.
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CuriousCures #CULconservation
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Christmas holiday plans 📚🎄📚
@theul.bsky.social Syn.10.202.1, a keepsake for the Cambridge Bibliophiles from William Zachs, 14 March 2024. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #MiniatureBook #Bookstagram #CamBibliophiles #EssencePress #MerryChristmas #Midwinter #WinterSolstice
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Learning to set moveable type in the Historical Print Room @theUL.bsky.social has been a joy 📚
David Macfarlane of Green Dolphin Press has kept a watchful eye on our small class, sharing his knowledge and helping us make a quarto pamphlet of John Baskerville’s will.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries
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Join PhD student Daisy on a tour of the English Faculty Library! 📚
Do you use the English Faculty Library? Tell us about what you love about it and (more importantly) whether you've introduced yourself to Shakespeare yet. 😉
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CambridgeUniversity
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A new #ManuscriptMonday in this blue space. I hear it’s a friendly place to be 📚
@theul.bsky.social MS Nn.3.74, ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt,’ dated 974H/ 1566AD
#CULconservation #cambridgeuniversitylibraries
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