#libraries #archives #SpecialCollections

More on #CuriousCures here: cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou… (Health Warning: not for the faint of heart).

@ahrcpress @RL_UK

Throughout the festive season and through to 4 Feb (立春), the infrastructure and major programmes team at the Arts and Humanities Research Council #ahrc will be showcasing highlights from the UK’s #libraries #archives and #specialcollections.

To see us into 2023 and to celebrate humanity’s infinite curiosity and thirst for knowledge, 3 marginal drawings from #CuriousCures project led by James Freeman at Cambridge University Library. (1 of 5)

A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story from 1931 gets a small but significant correction.

An angelic ritual turns to a #demonic one as cataloguing the #manuscripts for #CuriousCures reveals a new reading for who is being conjured.

https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24166

IMAGE: A ritual for conjuring spirits (Cambridge University Library MS Dd.11.45, f. 144r)

RT @theUL@twitter.com

This summer we launched a very exciting new project diving in to the world of #medieval medicine.

From stuffing puppies to salting owls, what cures did our ancestors use to treat everyday aliments?

#ULLookBack #CuriousCures #MedievalTwitter

https://loom.ly/MKpl-4w

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/theUL/status/1605851637817511937

#CuriousCures in Cambridge Libraries is a two-year project to digitise, catalogue and conserve over 180 medieval manuscripts from University and College libraries

We focus on #medievalMSS containing approximately 8,000 unedited medical recipes, but the mss include so much more!

Read more of this #WellcomeTrust funded project from our launch announcement in summer 2022:
https://twitter.com/theUL/status/1603315184000540672?s=20&t=NU11zcBc-v9l0OMKpi-E0w

Good morning my elephantine friends.

Testing my tooting powers & figuring out how to spread the joy of medieval manuscripts & all the wonderful work that happens with them

#CuriousCures and #MarcoOxford to feature in the future. And soon, perhaps some exciting personal news....