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Two more steps accomplished for opening:

  • panels installed
  • case interiors cleaned

Her Booke - Early Modern Women and their Books




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Twisted thread bookmarks at the foredges.
Lambeth Palace Library MS 371

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Parchment page with black manuscript. Red decorated letters. Beige thread attached in a v-shape. Thread twisted and projected from the foredges.

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Happy

The key ingredient in with which so much of Western European history is written.

Images: Lambeth Palace Library, Court of Arches/Bbb series

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Manuscript in iron gall ink on parchment with hand drawn notary mark in shape of a type of Celtic knot.
Manuscript in iron gall ink with hand drawn notary mark with diamond and curving shapes
Manuscript in iron gall ink with hand drawn notary mark in shape of a diamond with flourishing at each corner.

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A very good short story by Gillian Flynn.

The GrownUp

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Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, , or Turkish would work. @histodons @medievodons @librarians

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The introduction...
Index
Dennis Duncan

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One of the amazing things about working with collections at is that you can take yourself up to the stores to see a figure featured in a volume.

In this case it is the decoration featuring Grosseteste in our MS522 described in Dennis Duncan's Ind x, A History of the.


A person leaning over a bound manuscript on a desk in a reading room.

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The season of hosted classes started at this week.

& Documents for



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Good question. They are a bean bag construction. The volumes need to be in good stable condition for me to use them as they can cause damage to particular types of bindings.

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On the conservation bench today is a from 1665 for which I am writing a condition report and applying a couple very small paper repairs.

Sometimes I get to spend time looking closely at wonderful things. In this case, preparing for the next exhibition.

Lambeth Palace Library
A82.6/M29




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Good question.

I professionally don't know but I've heard of people batch processing images so possibly.

Hoping the fediverse will provide an answer.

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A day of finishing things including by


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Sobering piece on the effects of the British cyber attack. Staff have had to get new passports, PhDs are on hold, researchers' careers are affected. Every historian I know has been impacted.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/british-library-cyber-hack-rhysida-ransomware-tom-holland-b1131623.html

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Whilst the story mentions staff are changing bank details and passports, someone should ask whether the organisation is supporting the employees with doing these things...🔎

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2023 Reading list:
-A Stroke of Malice, A L Huber
-Unwell Women, E Cleghorn
-The Death of Lucy Kyte , N Upson
-Assistant to the Villain, H N Maehrer
-The Tropic of Serpents, M Brennan
-Black AF History, M Harriot
-A Power Unbound, F Marske
-The Maiden, K Foster
-Fly Girls, K O'Brien
-Mary and Mr. Eliot, M Trevelyan & E W Farrar
-The Bell Jar, S Plath
-Fear in the Sunlight, N Upson
-A Natural History of Dragons, M Brennan
-Grave Robbery, D Raybourn

1/n


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2023 Reading list:
-Deal with the Devil , K Rocha
-An Artless Demise, AL Huber
-A Brush With Shadows, AL Huber
-Echo Burning, L Child
-Two for Sorrow, N Upson
-A Suitable Boy, V Seth
-In Need of a Good Wife, K O'Connor McNees
-As Death Draws Near, A L Huber
-We Begin at the End, C Whitaker
-The Librarian Spy, M Martin
-The Bookseller of Florence, R King
-The Shadow Cabinet, J Dawson
-An American Beauty, S Abe
-City of Jasmine, D Raybourn

2/n

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2023 Reading list:
-The Island of Missing Trees, E Shafak
-Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, J Q. Sutanto
-Her Majesty's Royal Coven, J Dawson
-A Power Unbound, F Marske
-Rubyfruit Jungle, R M Brown
-A Sinister Revenge, D Raybourn
-Mortal Arts, A L Huber
-Marple: Agatha Christie, N Alderman, L Bardugo
-Queen Lucia, E. F. Benson
-The Second Mrs. Astor, S Abe

  • Parisians, G Robb
    -The Anatomist's Wife, A L Huber
    -Lessons in Chemistry, B Garmus

3/n

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2023 Reading list:
-The People on Platform 5, C Pooley
-The White Lady, J Winspear
-Born to Be Posthumous, M Dery
-From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
-Angel with Two Faces, N Upson
-The Importance of Being Interested, R Ince
-A Sinister Revenge, D Raybourn
-How to Kill Your Family, B Mackie
-Act of Oblivion, R Harris
-Die Trying, L Child
-A Certain Darkness , A L Huber
-Agatha Christie, L Worsley
-Cloud Cuckoo Land, A Doerr

4/n

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2023 Reading list:
-Killers of a Certain Age, D Raybourn
-Killing Floor, L Child
-Trespasses, L Kennedy
-The Bullet That Missed, R Osman
-The Personal Librarian, M Benedict
-A Restless Truth, F Marske
-The Man Who Died Twice, R Osman
-The Last Bookshop in London, M Martin
-The Satsuma Complex, B Mortimer
-1989, V McDermid
-Mrs Death Misses Death, S Godden

5/End

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An insight into preparing a giant Romanesque bible for an international exhibition loan including imaging and documentation at

https://monumentoffame.org/2023/12/15/a-giant-task-digitising-the-lambeth-bible/

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Some lucky paper conservator will get to figure out how to remove light weight oil from tracing paper. Quite the conundrum since oil is used to make tracing paper transparent. Also, big dimensional changes if treated with water.

Please don't store your architecturally significant plans in a basement beneath paint tins and cleaning/mechanical repair supplies (before being accessioned).



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Grey/beige tracing paper with moving oil between layers.

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My talk "Reading unreadable special collections with X-Ray Microtomography" for The Rare Books and Special Collections Group is now online:

https://youtu.be/I77xHRKD8qo?si=D79u53WJ5hu6-yLf&t=5186

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Institute of English Studies visited this week to learn about some of our treasures including the Anglo-Saxon Psalter, 12th century Lambeth Bibles, etc.





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"The disaster appeared to have destroyed the scrolls for good, but nearly 2,000 years later researchers have extracted the first word from one of the texts, using artificial intelligence to peer deep inside the delicate, charred remains."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/12/researchers-use-ai-to-read-word-on-ancient-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius @science @archaeodons

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No AI used by these researchers

http://apocalypto.org.uk/

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Kilograms per megabyte, but much more beautiful than a flash drive.

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@Dtl a few dead cows, too.

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A charming holding place in the upper corner of a


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Erasing, 16th century style.
MS 20



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A different version of "erasing," this time early 15th century style.
MS 69



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in courtyard corner of
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So I'm merrily working through bundles of archive records that require resizing to strengthen the paper structure and straight forward paper repairs when I get to this little challenge.
Land survey on tracing paper with fugitive ink.



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Tracing paper with wax seal plan of after treatment including flattening, infills and repairs. This item is now "fit for production" in our Reading Room.




Lambeth Palace Library CB/813

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