Medieval manuscripts blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-812499216323438192024-03-09T00:01:00+00:00The Medieval manuscripts blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts. It publicises all aspects of the Library's work on western manuscripts produced before 1600, including our digitisation and cataloguing projects, exhibitions and publications.TypePadCurator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscriptstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3ad581f200d2024-03-09T00:01:00+00:002024-03-08T15:54:08+00:00The British Library holds an internationally renowned collection of manuscripts relating to the ancient and medieval worlds. We are currently recruiting for a Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts to join our team, with a special responsibility for Classical, Biblical and Byzantine manuscripts. The opening of Book XII of Virgil's...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsMedieval Women exhibitiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3ac4350200b2024-03-08T00:01:00+00:002024-03-08T16:11:35+00:00We have some exciting news — pass it on! In October 2024, our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words opens at the British Library in London. The exhibition will explore the challenges, achievements and daily lives of women in Europe from 1100 to 1500. It will tell the...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsChaucer at the Bodleiantag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3ad0e32200d2024-03-06T00:01:00+00:002024-03-05T14:43:12+00:00The British Library is delighted to be a lender to the exhibition Chaucer Here and Now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The exhibition runs until 28 April 2024 and is free to visit, so don't delay! On display in the introductory section is our manuscript of the Prologue of...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsInterim information sources for British Library manuscriptstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3a64318200d2023-12-21T11:02:02+00:002024-01-17T10:44:44+00:00We are extremely grateful to everyone for their kind words since the recent cyber-attack. We've now expanded our temporary website where you can find more information about our available services. On 15 January we released a searchable online version of our main catalogue, which contains the majority of our printed...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsGarendon cartulary acquired by the British Librarytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3a12020200b2023-10-27T00:01:00+01:002023-10-26T14:17:57+01:00We are pleased to announce that the British Library has acquired a 15th-century cartulary from Garendon Abbey in Leicestershire. The cartulary of Garendon Abbey, made around 1450, and purchased by the British Library in September 2023 Garendon was founded for Cistercian monks in 1133, and was dissolved by the commissioners...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsChaucer’s works go onlinetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d39cb73a200c2023-10-25T00:01:00+01:002023-10-25T14:43:55+01:00Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400): poet, courtier, diplomat, Member of Parliament and royal administrator, and often called the ‘father of English poetry’. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest works of medieval literature. This Middle English poem has transfixed generations of readers, who have delighted in its...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsCataloguing the Cotton charterstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d3a0190e200d2023-10-14T00:01:00+01:002023-10-13T10:35:03+01:00A new project is underway to examine one of the British Library’s oldest and most important collections. The Cotton charters and rolls are being catalogued as part of the Library’s Hidden Collections initiative. Begun by the antiquarian and politician Sir Robert Cotton (1571–1631), and augmented by his son and grandson,...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsThe largest Greek manuscript?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d39b7f35200c2023-10-09T00:01:00+01:002023-10-09T16:59:18+01:00We are always pleased to announce the digitisation of our manuscripts but this blogpost marks a particularly special milestone. Thanks to generous support by Kimberley and David Martin and the Hellenic League, we have been able to digitise one of the largest (and heaviest!) Greek manuscripts in our collections. One...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsPhD Studentship opportunity: Medieval Women's Religious Communitiestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02c8d39e487b200b2023-09-26T09:50:56+01:002023-09-25T17:40:44+01:00The British Library is collaborating with the University of Cambridge to offer a fully-funded PhD studentship on the subject of ‘Reading and Writing in Medieval Women's Religious Communities’. The successful applicant will be supervised by Dr Jessica Berenbeim (Cambridge) and Dr Eleanor Jackson (British Library), and start in October 2024....Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern ManuscriptsShowing Elizabeth I in a new lighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c464853ef02b751ab243c200c2023-07-15T22:11:46+01:002023-12-19T10:49:14+00:00If you have been following the news recently, you may have seen that we've been doing specialist imaging on the draft manuscripts of William Camden's Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth I, with sensational results. This research has been undertaken by Helena Rutkowska, a collaborative DPhil student in partnership between...Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Manuscripts