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🕵️‍♂️ @CUL MS Add.662, a 15th-century Ashkenazi Mahzor, has many Piyutim obscured by a waxy substance. However, one gloss shaped like a Magen David is partially visible after our MSI and XRF analyses. Can anyone help decipher the text beneath?

A fine spooky recipe #CuriousCures indeed!

We've received a wonderful donation of private press material from Margaret Lock, co-founder of the Locks' Press, initially based in Australia & long active in Kingston (Ontario). Some of its treasures are shared in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29366

David Mills [Queen Mary University of London] visited the Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab Cambridge University Library today for an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) session. We’re investigating the unique black material used to conceal several hymns in a 15th-century Jewish liturgical codex, CUL Add.662. #HebrewManuscripts

We love Adam Smyth’s new book, and not just for its choice of typeface and its wonderful Baskerville chapter. ‘Paper, Letter, Ink, and Workmanship’. Excellent!

👇Two fantastic herbarium jobs opportunities. Please help us get the word out! Pls RT. Dr Timothy Utteridge Bill Baker @ol1grace

Applications now open for the Munby fellowship in bibliography 2025 Cambridge University Library. Exceptionally this year will be a 2-year post focusing on Bibliography and Natural History Humanities: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49338/ Closing date: 17 Jan

Come work with us! Excited to advertise this two-year fellowship for a Research Associate in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities, a collaboration between Cambridge University Library and Cambridge Collections Connections Communities. 💚

Today in the Cambridge University Library , John Baskerville’s signature and wax seal of a lygon (?). Used on the Agreement between him and the University of Cambridge thereby making him printer to the same and from where he issued his incomparable bible and Book of Common Prayer. Baskerville Punches

🚨 Come and join our team! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities! Cambridge University Library and CCC! Apply now. ⏰ Deadline 17 January 2025 ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

Inspired by this to look at dye colours in the notebooks of plant biochemist Robert (Robin) Hill (1899-1991), who experimented with plant dyes (and invented a fish-eye lens for whole-sky cloud photography). MS Add. 9267/B.45 Cambridge University Library Cambridge UL Special Collections

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Research Group SIGLUM is happy to invite you to a lecture “The art of bookbinding: micro-CT analysis of book structures — the case of Mary Stuart’s prayer book” by prof. Chiara Mazzocchi (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw) Details and abstract: siglum.uw.edu.pl/en/wsw/the-art…

AID HCH – Advancing Humanities and Cultural Heritage with Artificial Intelligence, a Slovenian project to address critical challenges in integrating AI into heritage science. bit.ly/3ZKtyqm

Enjoying Wolf Hall? Our latest blog post explores Thomas Cromwell's considerable impact on the University of Cambridge in the 1530s. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29565

A ground-breaking centre for collections-led research: the University Library Research Institute 18 months on lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/ulri-1… via Cambridge University Library

This includes a fully funded PhD to work on Anglo-Saxon charter single sheets with Julia Crick and me. Please spread the word, and hmu if you have any qs!

Funded PhD project on the Middle English Prose Brut in London with myself and Lawrence Warner : please spread the word and advertise to potential candidates with an interest in the production of ME literature: komldsp.org.uk/projects/remak…

A great funded collaborative PhD opportunity with my Queen Mary University of London colleagues Richard Coulton and Miles Ogborn and Natural History Museum 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium' Deadline 31 Jan 2025 lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…

A Baskerville asterisk punch, which looks like a snowflake, to wish you all a merry Christmas. Photography by the wonderful CHIL team at Cambridge University Library