Shame on the California Department of Conservation for endangering communities. The emissions from oil well include carcinogens, and children, seniors, chronically ill people, pregnant women, and everyone else should not be exposed to them.

Experimental parchment making in Cambridge, pt. 1 🐑

Featuring a beautiful frame from Jack Wheeler (even the pegs are an artwork), parchmenter know-how from Cambridge Archaeology and effortless calligraphy from young participants University of Cambridge Museums 🪶

#CULconservation #Parchment

Doug Ito from CalGEM (California's oil and gas regulator)

Just said 'What I'm hearing is what people are concerned about not just with orphaned wells but all wells...'

THE MESSAGE IS BEING RECEIVED 🗣️📣📣 California Department of Conservation
we are going to repeat it until we feel safe 🚨

Sparkling company (manuscript and human) at this evenings Cambridge University Library Research Institute first anniversary event ✨

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #ULRI #CULconservation

A filigree flourish for Friday ✨

Details from the doublures of Cambridge University Library MS Nn.3.74, ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence), dated 974H/ 1566AD

#cambridgeuniversitylibraries #CULconservation

Great turn out to the Arvin California Department of Conservation oil well plugging meeting
Residents are eager to hear about the wells in their neighborhoods and what is going to be done to protect residents from future leaks 🙌🏼

On route to the Khalili Research Centre to give a paper this evening 📚

Looking forward to discussing early Islamic manuscripts, binding structures and parchment 🐐 🐑 🐄

#CULconservation #IslamicManuscripts #ManuscriptMateriality

The #CULconservation team have chosen their top 10 manuscripts from the the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries Project. Today we have this drawing of a zodiac man with animals representing the star signs [CUL MS Dd.6.29].
See it close up here! loom.ly/534L6vI

May is Wildfire Awareness Month! 🔥🔥 A recent publication with BGC Engineering Inc., USGS, College of Science at the Uni. of Nevada, Reno, California Department of Conservation, and University of Melbourne focuses on post-wildfire debris flows which pose severe hazards to communities & infrastructure near and within recently burned mountainous terrain

Belated Valentine’s pattern for #MarbledMonday ❤️

Cambridge UL Special Collections Or.698, Diwan, 18th century 📚

#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #IslamicManuscript #DecorativePaper #HandmadePaper #CULconservation

The #CULConservation team are reflecting on the immense satisfaction of completing the conservation on a manuscript, preparing it for the next stage of its journey: digitisation.

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GONVIL…

The #CULconservation team have chosen their top 10 moments from the the #CuriousCures Project. Here you can see pigment expert Cheryl Porter and CUL Conservator Marina Pelissari examining the red powdering vermillion ink in a late 14th century English manuscript (CUL Add. 451).

We’re busy putting the finishing touches to our new Murder by the Book exhibition. This video makes it look easy, but building an exhibition is an incredibly skilled and technical process.

#CambridgeUniversityLibrary #CULConservation #MurderbytheBook

The #CULconservation team have chosen their top 10 manuscripts from the the #CuriousCures in Cambridge Libraries Project.
Today we're focusing on a rare medieval fenestra found on a volume of medieval medical texts.
#culconservation #medievalmanuscripts Gonville & Caius College

The #CULconservation team have chosen their top 10 manuscripts from the #CuriousCures Project. This 'Sortes' manuscript with anatomical diagrams is essentially what we now describe as divination, prognostication, and fortune-telling.
loom.ly/UgH0OCE
MS Pepys 911

This week, the #CULconservation team have chosen their top 10 manuscripts from the the #CuriousCures Project. Today we have a Cistercian manuscript with an exposed medieval binding structure [CUL MS Add. 5368].

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-000…

#bookconservation #medievalmanuscripts

This week, the #CULconservation team will share their top 10 manuscripts from the #CuriousCures in Cambridge Libraries Project. First up, is a fine example of medieval illumination under the microscope [CUL Ii.6.2]. #medievalmanuscripts cam.ac.uk/stories/curiou…

The conservation team is currently hosting Ella, a 3rd year book conservation student at West Dean College. Her placement will cover work all aspects of Conservation, including both preventive and interventive treatments.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation