I enjoyed this overview of the project’s wide range and insights – and some glorious images!
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-cures-completed
🧵 4/4 #CuriousCures
He curated the current exhibition of #CuriousCures at the #Cambridge #UL, which continues to 6 Dec:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncuriouscures
& suggested this evocative reading list:
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-cures-reading-list
🧵 3/4
@bookstodon
#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.
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 #medieval #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)
@medievodons
This summer Cambridge University Library 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?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine
#ULLookBack #CuriousCures #Medieval
In summer 2022 Cambridge University Library launched an 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?
Find out more about the project:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine
#medHist #MedicalHistory #medievalManuscripts #medieval #manuscripts
#CuriousCures @medievodons
#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://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine
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....
Claire Barnes
Tao Chang
Tuija Ainonen
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