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Happy 15th birthday!

For the past 15 years Parker Library On the Web has made our medieval and Renaissance MSS accessible worldwide

The physical library is in Cambridge (UK) and is a sight on its own right - witness it for yourself:
https://t.co/kXYYXaUm73

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From Cambridge experience to the whole world to enjoy!

Medieval manuscript digitisation transformed student and teacher access to medieval manuscripts

We are proud to continue our 15-year collaboration with @StanfordLibs

https://t.co/Sfu6nzc6O1
#PLOW #ParkerLibrary

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Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts

Just listen to @Stewart_Brookes give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research

https://t.co/RV77kbMsAe
#PLOW #ParkerLibrary

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Of all the things we needed to think, who would have thought that "paparazzi-cameras" were part of the answer!

Professor Hatcher can now laugh at the hairy years of starting a large digitisation project as he tells us about the early surprises

https://t.co/eaE2EeuesD
#PLOW

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Often things go wrong before they go right - true with #PLOW too

Prof Hatcher of @CorpusCambridge was director of the project at Cambridge.

Spoiler alert: it all worked out in the end!

https://t.co/eaE2EeuesD
#ParkerLibrary

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Remember the early years?🤔

We didn't want to lose sight of them & asked our colleague @suz_paul (now Keeper of MSS @theUL) how it was to work on a large-scale digitisation project back in the day

Give her a listen!
https://t.co/dvKmdTBUaZ
#ParkerLibrary #MedievalMSS

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Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web!

How do you celebrate a full-scale digital MS library online? By publishing our latest MS acquisition!

Our Director, Dr Hoskin, describes the gift:
https://t.co/yFv5DdxLCD

Stay tuned for interviews marking the anniversary!

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Happy 15th anniversary to Parker Library On the Web!

We’re celebrating our on-going digital collaboration with @StanfordLibs by gifting our users a new digitised MS that we acquired in late 2022:

16thC gift tag from Matthew Parker to Queen Elizabeth I
https://t.co/8Xd4IeQNSz

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Time for holidays .... almost!

Our annual winter closure starts on Fri 20 December 2024 at 15:00.

We will re-open for readers Monday 6 January 2025 at 9:45.

Image: CCCC MS 158, f. 3r Fully digitised at https://t.co/iVZwSiDxWR

#MedievalMSS

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Staffing a historic library happens in a variety of ways - here's one journey to us with our current Sub-Librarian and Special Collections Librarian @AinonenT

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If you've spent any time in the @ParkerLibCCCC then you'll know Tuija. The Sub-Librarian and Special Collections Librarian, Tuija Ainonen has been with us for two years now and she does it all 1 of 2

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Our greatest benefactor, elizabethan archbishop Matthew Parker (d. 1575) had a portrait made - the first ever portrait engraved in England

Dr Spillane explores its the rich symbolism:
https://t.co/Ihw6xTbzyw

The manuscript is fully digitised: https://t.co/x4wAFopGDD

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Scota, the mythical daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh, sailing on the page of 'Scotichronicon' in the Parker Library
(now CCCC MS 171b, f. 14v : https://t.co/bH6dMimkth)

This, and other treasures on display during our autumn '24 tours: https://t.co/Ajey226B9L

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November is the time to beat the oak trees to fell acorns for your hog. Also, centaurs with six-packs. @ParkerLibCCCC MS 053: The Peterborough Psalter and Bestiary

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New dates released for Parker Library tours Oct-Dec 2024!

Once a week, usually at 2pm, anyone can get a chance to visit our fake-medieval (a.k.a. neo-gothic) old library and check out the exhibition of some real medieval manuscripts

Book your tour:
https://t.co/Ajey226B9L

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We are delighted to see one of our 9thC manuscripts displayed in the remarkable 'Silk Roads' exhibition at @britishmuseum

The display features an added incense recipe from 10thC England. A collective College effort recreated it in our Chapel!

https://t.co/qrv90EfKAi

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A recipe found in 10th-century manuscript by the Director of the Parker Library, Professor Philippa Hoskin, is on display in a new exhibition at the British Museum. We decided to try it out. https://t.co/DAB0XWGVhw

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The diagrammatic text contains lots of other interesting images - how about this adorable Stonehenge!

'Stonehenges iuxta ambesbury in anglia sita'

CCCC MS 194, f. 57r
https://t.co/qratCo8DRe

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A copy of the annals of the world, the Scala Mundi (Ladder of the World), depicts the foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan orders.

Saintly halo identifies St Dominic with his book, and St Francis preaching to the birds

CCCC MS 194, f. 71r
https://t.co/f42q93zsLs

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It's been edited and translated by Henry Ellis in his 'Original Letters', vol. II (1827), pp. 10-12 and is available, for example, on google books:

https://t.co/h1pEq9mQ4s

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In anticipation of World #LetterWriting Day (1 Sept), here's one from our collections:

c. 7-year-old Anne Boleyn writes -in French & by herself- from Hever Castle to her dad about her determination to learn and improve her French

CCCC MS 119, p. 21a
https://t.co/Sj11ASORn2