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190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my!

We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures
Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 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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theulspeccoll.bsky.social
So, it's Elizabethan England, and you need to know how to cure STDs, extract bullets, and live to be a hundred? Well, we have got the manuscript for you. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost:

specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=29988
A paper manuscript lying open, displaying recipes written in cursive hand. A page from a printed book showing illustrations of instruments for extracting bullets.
April 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM