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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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October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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 📚
January 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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
March 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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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
March 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
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.
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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@theul.bsky.social by moonlight 🌔

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #FullMoon #GeminidMeteorStorm
December 14, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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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
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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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
December 24, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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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
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".
May 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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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
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.
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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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.

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#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CuriousCures #CULconservation
January 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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
January 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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
December 19, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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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
Manuscripts and books being carefully placed on their cradles for the Curious Cures exhibition.
March 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries
West Hub Research Cafe: AI and Research
A relaxed, friendly space to explore innovative research, raise your profile, and collaborate with peers from diverse disciplines.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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
April 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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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
December 2, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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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
June 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Are you coming to one of the Undergraduate Open Days this week? Don't forget to check out Cambridge University Library while you're here 👋

We're running drop-in tours 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th July. No need to book!

#Cambridge #CambridgeUniversityLibraries
Photo of Cambridge University Library on a sunny day. We see a pop-up banner with the text: 'Cambridge University Library'.
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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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
January 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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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
March 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM