When I last wrote some practical notes about accessing manuscripts at the Bodleian, Special Collections was still in its temporary home while the fancy new Weston Library was being constructed. That fancy new library is now up and running, and so it’s time to revise my previous advice!
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There is a lot of advice about academic writing on the internet, usually full of imperative verbs, and I don’t feel I’m really qualified to…
One CommentI’ve updated the material in this post to refer to the Bodleian’s new Weston Library here.
Leave a CommentI’m told that my notes on making manuscript research trips to the British Library were useful, so here’s something in a similar vein for another library with very significant manuscript holdings, Cambridge University Library.
Leave a CommentReading this useful post on registering at the British Library reminded me that I’d been meaning to write up some practical remarks on visiting the place: things I wish I’d known myself when I started making trips there. I’m sure there are plenty of things I could still do more efficiently on day trips to the BL, but I hope that none of the following thoughts are wrong and that some of them might be useful to someone.
One CommentThe news [EDIT: (much!) more detail here] of the Wellcome Library’s purchase of a fifteenth-century medical almanac has been doing the rounds in the last…
Leave a CommentIn the last couple of days I’ve been conducting a rapid survey of particular measurements in a group of manuscripts. Today I was looking at…
Leave a CommentSomething I should probably have said in my previous post, because it took me a distressingly long time to start doing it myself: if acid-free…
Leave a CommentThis post: just some written-up notes collecting together things I’ve found useful in understanding manuscripts’ physical structure.
Leave a CommentThis is just a little note. I’ve met several people who were working on relevant things but didn’t know that the manuscripts in the John…
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