Manuscripts, carefully wrapped in fabric. They have labels marked 'Loan Material'.

Members of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.

A member of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.

A member of the Cambridge University Library Conservation team work on the deinstall of the Curious Cures exhibition.

Thank you to our Conservation team, who have been working on the de-install of the #CuriousCures exhibition – ensuring that the books and manuscripts, from our own collections and beyond, are cared for with great skill and attention to detail

#CULConservation #Conservation

An image of an open medieval medical manuscript on a dark red velvet cloth.

📣This is your last chance visit the #CuriousCures exhibition before it closes tomorrow, Saturday 6 December.

🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Pictured: MS Dd.6.29

A medieval image of a pregnant woman. She wears a pink dress and an ornate headdress. The image is surrounded by handwritten text and a border of leaves.

A close-up detail of medieval folding almanack page. We see two labelled images, one depicting a man's veins, the other a man marked with the signs of the zodiac.

📣There are just two more days to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition before it closes on Saturday 6 December!

🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Pictured:
1. Pregnant woman (MS li.5.11)
3. Vein Man and Zodiac Man (MS Add.3303(3))

📣This is your final week to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Image by kind permission of Trinity College, Cambridge (MS O.1.20)

📣Hurry! You only have until 6 December to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

🔎 Image: Aldobrandino da Siena, Régime du corps (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.5.11)

A page from a medieval folding almanac showing images of Vein Man and Zodiac Man, plus lots of handwritten labels and text.

📣Hurry! You only have until 6 December to visit the #CuriousCures exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

🔗Book your FREE tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

🔎 Vein Man and Zodiac Man, from a leaf of medieval folding almanac. MS Add.3303(3)

Poster for "Comedy Improv at the UL!" featuring a collaboration between Medieval Manuscripts and The Cambridge Impronauts. Includes images of a medieval illustration and an improv performance. University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives logo at the bottom.

Laugh out loud at the library! Comedy improv inspired by our latest Curious Cures exhibition 🎭😆

Thursday 20 November. 5.30-7pm. Tickets £5. More info and to book: https://loom.ly/ctOh268

#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #ImprovNight #CambridgeEvents #ComedyNight

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible 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 University of Cambridge.

I enjoyed this overview of the project’s wide range and insights – and some glorious images!
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-cures-co...

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Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here Forthcoming

He curated the current exhibition of #CuriousCures at the #Cambridge #UL, which continues to 6 Dec:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncuriouscures

& suggested this evocative reading list:
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-cures-re...
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Original post on h-net.social

The author, Dr James Freeman, chairs the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections. He led the Curious Cures project to conserve, catalogue & digitise medical recipes in the many Cambridge libraries:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/curiouscures
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#digitisation #libraries […]

Listen to two new choral works from the Timeline Choir inspired by our #CuriousCures exhibition! 🐀

‘A Charm Against Rats’ by composer Charlotte Baskerville is inspired by a 15th-century manuscript (@caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 457/395, f. 1v).

Hear the full version: https://loom.ly/2fJO_xs

We see an open medieval manuscript on display. On one page, there is a series of rotating discs with detailed measurements and markings, including the sun and moon. On the opposite page, we see a medical diagram of a man.

⌛Time is running out for #CuriousCures!

Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.

📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725

Shelves in a Library shop stocked with botanical-themed books and gifts.

A tote bag in a Library shop printed with a medieval design of two ladies. One is reading a book, the other is brandishing a garland. The text on the bag reads, "Go away, I'm reading."

A rectangular box printed with a design that says 'Medieval Herbs Growbar'.

A hand holds an insulated travel cup printed with an Arts & Crafts botanical design. In the background, we see other giftware printed with the design, such as a notebook and a water bottle.

Admit it, your favourite part of an exhibition is the gift shop. 😉

The UL's gift shop is an ode to the #CuriousCures of the medieval period. Books, flower presses, seed collections, coffee cups and the *essential* tote bag are the remedies you need to satisfy your self-gifting desires.

A white box on legs containing a computer screen sits in a corridor of a library.

A curious object has appeared in the North Corridor.

❓It's time to test your medical knowledge and take the interactive Curious Cures quiz! Touch the screen to get started and see how much you know.

Book your FREE #CuriousCures exhibition tickets now: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

A person holding a book titled Old English Medical Remedies sits at a table with a patterned paper cup and a slice of carrot cake on a white plate in the foreground.

Your free #CuriousCures exhibition ticket gives you access to our north and south corridors, where the second part of the exhibition is located. Enjoy seeing our iconic art deco building, and finish with a visit to our tea room!

Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY

Thank you for sharing! We're delighted you enjoyed visiting #CuriousCures

Step this way for a whistle-stop tour of Curious Cures, with its curator Dr James Freeman!

Book your FREE Curious Cures exhibition tickets now: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

#CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

👹 Possessed by demons? What a nuisance. But don't worry this herbal remedy will sort you out!

The video features a 14th century German Herbarium (MS O.2.48) from @TrinCollCam, Cambridge, on display at our #CuriousCures exhibition.

🎟️FREE tickets here: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

A poster for Library Late at Cambridge University Library.

Library Late at the UL is back!

Join us on 19 June at Cambridge University Library for a fun evening dedicated to our latest exhibition, #CuriousCures -- including board games!

⏰THURS 19 JUNE, 7.30PM TO 10PM
🎟️Book your ticket now: loom.ly/aXzD1H4

A medieval person in bed covered in blankets

A man and a woman sitting a table, eating a meal

Walking and swimming

A man in a canopied bathtub with a table of food

💅Self-care, medieval style…

🛌Catch up on sleep
🥗Eat a good diet
🏊Do some exercise
🛀Have a bath

We hope you spent your bank holiday doing at least ONE of these things, which are all recommended in this beautiful manuscript, once owned by Elizabeth of York (MS Ii.5.11). #CuriousCures

Tonight my colleagues will be hosting a #curiouscures themed Really Popular Book Club. And for anyone who wants a bigger fix of medieval health, our exhibition is still running… www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu...

Promotional image for Cambridge University Library's Really Popular Book Club. We will discuss A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory on Tues 20 May 2025, 7PM to 8PM. Open to all. Hosted online using Zoom

Join us online for a #CuriousCures themed edition of the Really Popular Book Club!

📚 We'll be discussing A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
📅Tues 20 May 2025
⏰7PM to 8PM
👋Open to all. Hosted online using Zoom

🎟️ Free, booking required: loom.ly/9pCdAr0

We see handwritten notes displayed on a visitor suggestion board at the Curious Cures exhibition.

Cucumbers for Constipation and Vinegar for Verrucas? These are #CuriousCures for the 21st Century...

We asked our exhibition visitors for medical tips, and some are just as curious as the cures found in medieval manuscripts!

Find out more in this blog: loom.ly/Z2XyHfU

A photo of an old medieval manuscript showing the phases of the moon.

In Cambridge this weekend? Stroll over to the UL on Saturday or Monday to see our free exhibition on medieval medicine, #CuriousCures.

🕰️Exhibition Opening Times:
Sat 3 May, 9am – 4:30pm
Sun 4 May, CLOSED
Mon 5 May, 9am – 6:30pm

🎟️Book now: loom.ly/kVqsPRY

A paper manuscript lying open, displaying recipes written in cursive hand.

A page from a printed book showing illustrations of instruments for extracting bullets.

So, it's Elizabethan England, and you need to know how to cure STDs, extract bullets, and live to be a hundred? Well, we have got the manuscript for you. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost:

specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=29988

💀 Body and soul: Checking on my “four humours” and the diagnosis is fascinating at Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World, at Cambridge University Library

🩸 #CuriousCures #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge @theul.bsky.social

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind trial-and-error’

‘Curious Cures’ an authentic reference for traditional medicine in historical novels. www.independent.co.uk/news/science... #Author #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #LiteraryCommunity #HistoricalNovels #CuriousCures

A Curious Choir Cambridge Timeline Choir brings verses from the Curious Cures collection to life for new audiences, working with Cambridge University Library to set medieval medical manuscripts to music.

It was thrilling to have 275 people join us @theUL.bsky.social yesterday for the launch of #curiouscures, to the epic soundtrack of Cambridge Timeline Choir performing new compositions invoking a charm against rats and an Anglo-Norman gynaecological treatise. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Medieval cure for infertility included weasels’ testicles — The Telegraph A 15th-century manuscript reveals how women hoping to get pregnant were told to burn the mixture in an earthenware pot to make a pill

Medieval cure for infertility included weasels’ testicles - The Telegraph

#Exhibition #CuriousCures #15thCenturyManuscript #MedievalCures #TheTelegraph #AppleNews