Endless Stories, opens on 28 Sep at Cambridge University Library. It showcases the extraordinary manuscripts collected by 17th-century visionary, Thomas Van Erpe. The exhibition includes works in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Malay. Book your free ticket: lib.cam.ac.uk/endlessstories

📚✨ Looking at books as part of the workshop, “Material Aspects of Manuscripts from the Islamic World, with a Special Focus on Bookbinding.” Part of the series, Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts, organised by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin BBAW and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation

The beautiful one ✨ #Caturday at Neues Museum, Berlin. #QueenNefertiti 🐈‍⬛

🌙📖 Celebrating Milad un-Nabi, the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), through Qur'an recitation. In light of this, we're sharing a stunning single-volume Qur'an from our Islamic Arts Collection (Istanbul, AH 1234/AD 1818–19), copied by Mir Ibrahim al-‘Afif. With its illuminated

A bright fleck of Peregrine.

Questo libro is a new favourite 📚 Cambridge University Library Add. 6685, Bible in a Tuscan dialect, dated 1397. #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #IlluminatedManuscript #Pigments #Gold #ItalianManuscript #BooksInBooks

Ripe buckthorn harvest underway! Sap green replenished 🍃 #DyeMaking #ManuscriptPalette #SapGreen

Wild chalk sourced in the same spot as the buckthorn🍃 Really hard and creamy white. Needed to be chopped coarsely before it was ground. #MedievalPalette #foraged #pigments #ColourMaking

Elegant details at Cambridge University Library this evening for the opening of #EndlessStories 📚 #Manuscripts #Translation #Erpenius

An exquisite miniature leaf-shaped Qur’an NY Public Library 🍃 #MiniatureBook #MiniatureQuran

An official launch for the Islamic bookbinding publication! 📚 #IslamicBookbinding #Bookbinding #MonteProject @IAPCourses Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Library

The glowing cube of Beinecke Library Yale University 📚 Looking glorious at 61 years old. #YaleUniversityLibraries #LibrariesOfTheWorld #UniversityLibraries

#ManuscriptMonday Yale University edition This beautiful manuscript Beinecke Library features a detailed dated lacquer binding 📚 Arabic MSS 505, Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, colophon and binding dated 1232H (1816/1817) #IslamicManuscript #Lacquer

Excited to share details of this fully funded PhD, “Embroidering Empire: Women, Textiles, and Colonial Collecting, 1872-1950”. This collaborative doctoral award, between DMU and the Royal School of Needlework, is supervised by myself, Dr Isabella Rosner, Emily Baines & Laura Beltrán-Rubio

This is of course another calendar, a lunar one, but made of a single vellum sheet folded into a tiny square.

Join our Head of Conservation and Heritage, Kristine Rose-Beers ACR, for a special tour of our new exhibition, Endless Stories. ⏰ Friday 25 October, 12-1pm 📍Cambridge University Library 🎟️Tickets are £5 Book here: lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/conserva… Kristine Rose-Beers #CULConservation

Happy 90th birthday Cambridge University Library 📚 Cambridge University has had a library since at least 1416 but the Giles Gilbert Scott designed building was opened by King George V and his wife Queen Mary #OTD in 1934. Thanks Dr Jill Whitelock 📷 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries

In the eighth century Anglo-Saxon crypt of St Wystan’s, Repton. Burial place of Mercian kings 👑 #Staycation #Mercia

Views of the National Memorial Arboretum on a crisp and sunny Sunday morning.

100 years of Memorial Court Clare College and a beautiful Remembrance Sunday service.