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Tag Archives: manuscripts
Seachtain na Gaeilge: Irish Language Manuscript Collections at UCC Library
UCC Library’s Special Collections & Archives has rich Irish language collections including: The personal book collection of 20th century professor of Irish at UCC: Prof. Tadhg O Donnchadha also known as Torna. Items in Irish from the Older Printed Books … Continue reading
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Tagged age, binding, Canon Power, Cohalan, content, Cork, Decoration, Irish language, Lyons, manuscripts, Murphy Collection, O Donnchu, provenance, scribe, Seachtain na Gaeilge, size, special collections, Torna, Tradition, UCC, UCC Library
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Portal to the Past: You’ll Be Surprised By What You’ll Find! The Special Collections Edition!
This is the final blog post in the series about the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives. Over the last few weeks Emer, Emma and I have tried to dispell notions of what people think of may be … Continue reading
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Tagged bookplates, coded letters, collections, Cork, Cork harbour, County Cork, cryptography, digitised collections, display, endpapers, exhibition, graphic design, Irish language, manuscripts, maps, Music, Portal to the Past, Printed books, special collections, visual, wax cylinders
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Portal to the Past! You’ll Be Surprised By What Can Find!
Have you spotted the new wall design outside Special Collections & Archives? In an age where people use and rely on the web and digital content we wanted to show we are more than old text-based documents or old and … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising label, archival collections, bookmarks, bookplates, business archives, collections, graphic design, landed estates, manuscripts, maps, notepaper, Photographs, Portal to the Past, postcards, Printed books, sketchbooks, special collections, visual
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HI6091: Work Placement in Special Collections (2019)
The River-side welcomes this guest post from Patrick O’Dwyer, a student on the 2018/2019 MA in Medieval History in UCC, that includes the HI6091: Skills for Medieval Historians module. HI6091 is taught by Dr Malgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton and Elaine Harrington. Dr Krasnodębska-D’Aughton was selected for a President’s … Continue reading
The Book of Kells: Image and Text / Making Manuscripts
Student Exhibition, MA in Medieval History Making Manuscripts Medieval manuscripts were written by hand, the word ‘manuscript’ being derived from the Latin words ‘manu’ meaning ‘by hand’ and ‘scriptus’ meaning ‘written’. They were copied on parchment made from the skins … Continue reading
