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27 Jul 2024: Keep abreast of new accessions, catalogues, digitised collections, projects and exhibitions by reading our regular blog-posts.

27 Jul 2024: The British and Foreign Bible Society (now "Bible Society") was founded in 1804 with the aim of supplying Bibles and New Testaments - Scriptures - without note or comment, on a world-wide ... Early in the planning of this move it became apparent that the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. WhoHas? The inaugural Futurelib project explored the idea of enabling student sub-lending at three different site libraries with Facebook Groups selected as the test platform for these transactions. The

27 Jul 2024: Exhibitions. Celebrating 150 years of the Royal Commonwealth Society (1868-2018) with a new collection on Cambridge Digital Library. ... Treasures from the Royal Commonwealth Society: A new online exhibition offers extraordinary insights into the

27 Jul 2024: We are very excited to announce that our new book, The Illustrated Cairo Genizah, is now available for pre-order! ... Has tags:By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Mon 20 May 2024. From 15 September 2023 to 31 March 2024, the Centro Sefarad-Israel in Madrid

27 Jul 2024: Demystifying the work of John Baskerville, the Birmingham inventor and entrepreneur who revolutionised the world of printing, is one of the key objectives of a new £1 million research project led

27 Jul 2024: No new cards for printed maps or atlases have been added since August 2000; no new cards for manuscript maps have been added since January 2006.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Grace. A proposal put to the vote in the Regent (and/or Non-Regent) House; until 1943 graces that had been approved were recorded in the series of Grace Books. Contact us. Privacy Policy. Diversifying

27 Jul 2024: Celebrating the food culture of the Middle East, a new temporary exhibition 'Tastes of Heaven: Tales of the Arab Kitchen' – curated by Limor Yungman and Adi Namia-Cohen at the Museum

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. French collections. French collections. The French collections at Cambridge University Library exist to support the curriculum and research needs of the university in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Chinese collections. Chinese collections. Please use the links at the left to navigate these web pages, which contain full details about the Chinese collections of Cambridge University Library, their

27 Jul 2024: Pepe, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working on a new book about daily life in al-Andalus, and I’ve been looking for new materials to ... Jason, your new book, Medicine in the Talmud, has just been published.

27 Jul 2024: More about less: A New Shorthand Targum Manuscript..

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. North Star. This scoping project explored the potential value of a new research platform, North Star, for the University of Cambridge’s academics and researchers

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Services. Which reading room do I need? Official publications within the RCS collections should be requested and consulted in the Rare Books Room. Over 32,500 such publications may now be located via

27 Jul 2024: Barriers include the ‘multi-format’ nature of the scientific record and the need to blend long-term and rapid-response collecting mechanisms that can flex to accommodate new accruals as research

27 Jul 2024: By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Wed 5 May 2021. The researchers of the GRU, toiling away with their noses to the manuscript coalface, are ideally placed to discover new and interesting

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Korean collections. Korean collections. The Korean collection in Cambridge University Library is part of the East Asian collection. It is located in the Aoi Pavilion, together with the Chinese and Japanese

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. list. . Throwback Thursday: Armenian and Romance vocabulary for the discerning traveller.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 3 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken

27 Jul 2024: Jason, your new book, Medicine in the Talmud, has just been published.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Proctor. Normally used for one of the two University officers, in early years known sometimes as rectors, appointed annually to represent the interests of the regent masters, and to maintain discipline.

27 Jul 2024: Has tags:By Amir Ashur on Wed 9 Jun 2021. A new article in the Guardian (‘Unchain your wife’: the Orthodox women shining a light on ‘get’ refusal) raises the issue

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. tale. . Q&A Wednesday: Talking skulls with Magdalen Connolly.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Magdalen Connolly on Wed 19 May 2021. Magdalen - which manuscript are you working on today?

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. The Tracker Project. The Tracker project was conducted, alongside the Protolib II project, to supplement the findings of the first Protolib project. Tracker concentrated on micro-level space issues,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Greek. . Q&A Wednesday: Julia Krivoruchko on the mannerisms of Greek glosses.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Julia Krivoruchko on Wed 8 Sep 2021. Julia, what are you working on today?

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Periodicals. Periodicals. The Periodicals Department deals with print newspapers, directories, travel guides, as well as periodicals (journals and magazines, etc.) as commonly understood. The main exception

27 Jul 2024: Many, of course, found themselves refugees, arriving in a new city and dependent either on family or on the generosity of the local Jewish community.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. bulla. . The future of Egypt’s past: the Mosseri Collection.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 7 May 2021. The Jacques (or Jack) Mosseri Collection arrived in Cambridge in 2006. After Schechter

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ramla. . ‘We have seen the mountains shaking’: Fatimid humanitarian relief and the earthquake of 1033.. By Ben Outhwaite on Tue 7 Feb 2023. In December 1033 CE – late afternoon on

27 Jul 2024: By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 16 Feb 2023. A new online exhibition ‘Coins of the Cairo Geniza’, curated by Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum of the Princeton Geniza Lab, brings

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. sigla. . Throwback Thursday: Section markings in Bible scrolls.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 1 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 32 of the printed edition

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Intraloan. Between December 2016 and May 2017 the Futurelib Programme conducted an in-depth user research study looking into current experiences at the University of Cambridge, specifically related to

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. audio. . Radio: Introducing the Genizah on Radio Maria.. By Sarah Sykes on Sat 28 Oct 2023. In recent weeks Genizah researchers recorded two radio interviews about the collection and its

27 Jul 2024: Zina, you have a new book coming out soon about inks in Genizah manuscripts.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. staff. . Throwback Thursday: the Genizah Research Unit in 2010.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 24 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is a photo of the Genizah Unit's staff as it

27 Jul 2024: 1958:. S.A. Skilliter. New light on Barton’s services for the levant company, a study of Additional Manuscript 461 preserved in Cambridge University Library, submitted as an essay for the

27 Jul 2024: In the synagogal domain, new liturgical customs and texts have.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Japan. . Q&A Wednesday: Genizah Studies in Japan, with Hideharu Shimada and Amir Ashur.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee, Haru Shimada, and Amir Ashur on Wed 27 Oct 2021. Haru, what are you

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Jesus. . Q&A Wednesday: Toledot Yeshu – insult or entertainment? With Miriam Goldstein.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Miriam Goldstein on Wed 20 Oct 2021. Miriam, what are you working

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dairy. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among the

27 Jul 2024: Bible distribution by British and Foreign Bible Society to Taranaki Mission, New Zealand.

27 Jul 2024: Pepe, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working on a new book about daily life in al-Andalus, and I’ve been looking for new materials to

27 Jul 2024: Rebecca, you have a new book coming out in February 2022.

27 Jul 2024: Hi Moshe, what are you working on at the moment? In my new project I’m working on dwelling patterns of Jews, Christians and Muslims in medieval Egypt (and a bit

27 Jul 2024: As part of the cataloguing process, the information in the unpublished descriptions is being collated alongside new information into a digital record. ... The fragments in this volume will therefore be rehoused in a new, archival-standard guardbook,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Work begins on a new Off-Site Storage Facility. ... The off-site storage will also help the University Library support teaching, learning and research by allowing us to plan new spaces and rethink our existing

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hebron. . Throwback Thursday: Egyptian Help to the Holy Land.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 29 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 23 of the printed edition

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Coptic. . 'Coptic' numerals and Genizah studies.. By Magdalen M. Connolly on Wed 2 Jun 2021. It has long been customary in both Genizah studies and Arabic codicology to describe the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Magreb. . Q&A Wednesday: Algorithms and elbows, with Noam Sienna.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Noam Sienna on Wed 28 Jul 2021. Noam, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Libraries Accessibility Service. The Libraries Accessibility Service works across the Cambridge library network to ensure that library users have equal access to services and resources regardless of their