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Official twitter account for The Parker Library, a special collections library @CorpusCambridge Find us also (at)https://nitter.gq/t.co/RkFTA1xFgv

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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: corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ce…
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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 corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/te… #PLOW #ParkerLibrary
Teaching with Medieval Manuscripts

Teaching with Medieval Manuscripts

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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 corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/op… #PLOW #ParkerLibrary
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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! corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/am… #ParkerLibrary
Ambition and Achievement

Ambition and Achievement

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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 corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/am… #PLOW
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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! corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ea… #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: corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/pa… Stay tuned for interviews marking the anniversary!
Parker's Gift

Parker's Gift

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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 parker.stanford.edu/parker/c…
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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 bit.ly/3ZBa1Ja #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: corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ma… The manuscript is fully digitised: parker.stanford.edu/parker/c…
Portrait of archbishop Matthew Parker in black and white garb, placed inside an oval. He is sitting in a green chair, with green curtain at the background, window to the left and table on the front. Windowsill has an hourglass. Identifiable items include a book, a box, a bell, a seal and a staff.

ALT Portrait of archbishop Matthew Parker in black and white garb, placed inside an oval. He is sitting in a green chair, with green curtain at the background, window to the left and table on the front. Windowsill has an hourglass. Identifiable items include a book, a box, a bell, a seal and a staff.

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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 : tinyurl.com/bdeh323n) This, and other treasures on display during our autumn '24 tours: eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-li…
Boatful of people sailing a 15th-century cog. Scota and Goídel Glas indicated by their names.

ALT Boatful of people sailing a 15th-century cog. Scota and Goídel Glas indicated by their names.

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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: eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-li…
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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! corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-libr…
Three recipes and some scribbles added to once empty leaf in CCCC MS 223 p. 2. Top recipe contains instructions for making incense.

ALT Three recipes and some scribbles added to once empty leaf in CCCC MS 223 p. 2. Top recipe contains instructions for making incense.

Display case in the 'Silk Roads' exhibition at the British Museum, featuring the Parker Library's CCCC MS 223 next to four fabric fragments and a casket

ALT Display case in the 'Silk Roads' exhibition at the British Museum, featuring the Parker Library's CCCC MS 223 next to four fabric fragments and a casket

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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 parker.stanford.edu/parker/c…
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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 parker.stanford.edu/parker/c…
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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 tinyurl.com/mwyrdbtk
Autograph letter of Anne Boleyn to her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn beginning: Monssr je antandue par v(ost)re lettre que.... / I find by your letter that ... Now in the Parker Library: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 119, p. 21a

ALT Autograph letter of Anne Boleyn to her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn beginning: Monssr je antandue par v(ost)re lettre que.... / I find by your letter that ... Now in the Parker Library: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 119, p. 21a

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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: books.google.no/books?id=8SI…
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To 1571

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Open Day at the Parker Library: 12 September 10-12 and 2-4pm A chance to visit our 1820s interior to view some of our 500-1,000+ year-old, internationally renowened treasures AND to see what our conservators are up to! opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/even… #OpenCambridge @CorpusCambridge
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We're back! Summer closure is over & we're ready to receive visitors and researchers again Here's the image of the eagle of St John from the beginning of the Northumbrian Gospels, CCCC MS 197B p. 245, now on display in our exhibition! Book your tickets eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-li…
Colourful eagle in red, green and yellow, fitted in red and green frame with green crosses and lines protruding towards the eagle. It was made in late seventh- or early eighth-century Northumbria. Watch out for those talons! CCCC MS 197B, p. 245

ALT Colourful eagle in red, green and yellow, fitted in red and green frame with green crosses and lines protruding towards the eagle. It was made in late seventh- or early eighth-century Northumbria. Watch out for those talons! CCCC MS 197B, p. 245

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Great to see our ms in action! CCCC MS 183 is also available fully digitised at parker.stanford.edu/parker/c…
Michael Wood (@MichaelWoodMV) profile pictureMichael Wood@MichaelWoodMV6 Jul 2024
Back at home with so much Athelstan merch! Have a great weekend - looking forward to the dig results. ⁦@MuseumAthelstan⁩ #Athelstan1100
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Some Early Modern printed books will also do the trick! 💪
Julia Walworth (@JuliaWalworth) profile pictureJulia Walworth@JuliaWalworth4 Jul 2024
Work in an historic library with monster canon law commentaries, and you won’t need a gym membership! Quads, glutes and biceps in good shape. #stronglibrarians 💪💪
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We're almost there! #s1408 at @IMC_Leeds tonight at 7pm Parker Library at a round table discussion on digital libraries. Come and tell us your wishlist for our online repository. #IMC2024
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