News & Current Projects
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Avoid like the Plague!While cold & flu season is well underway, check out this C16th recipe 'Against the Plague' in TCD MS93 Psalter. We tested the recipe on Friday - follow our steps here!
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Dublin (re)drawnThe latest Cuala Press project blog post, ‘Dublin (re)drawn’, is partly a response to the negative view of the city created by the recent riots. Using a Cuala Press lens it portrays a vibrant city.
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Programme: The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts SymposiumHere is our programme for The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium. We look forward to seeing you next week for two fun days of medieval manuscripts!
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Registration Now Open! The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium: 30th Nov – 1st Dec 2023Registration now open for 'The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts' Symposium scheduled for 30th November to 1st December 2023 at Trinity College Dublin.
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Marking Books and Bookmarks: Evidence of Provenance and Use in the Fagel CollectionWhen Trinity College Dublin purchased Hendrik Fagel the Younger’s library in 1802, it was not a collection of new, clean books. Some of the items had passed through numerous hands and institutions before finally arriving in the Old Library, and still today bear the marks of their previous lives on their leaves. Jenny Coulton provides an overview of the kinds of provenance evidence found in the collection today.
Cuala Press Project
The Cuala Press Project commenced in October 2020 and is focused on two collections, the Cuala Press Print Collection (TCD MS 11574) and the Cuala Press Business Archives (TCD MS 11535). The project is supported by the Schooner Foundation which funded the appointment of an archivist, a conservator, a digital photographer, and a post-doctoral researcher in the history of art. The aim of the project is to catalogue, conserve, research and digitize the collections, and make them more accessible to researchers.
The Cuala Press was established by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940) and Susan Mary Yeats (1866-1949) in Churchtown, County Dublin in 1908. The Cuala Press Print collection comprises 111 hand-coloured prints designed for the Cuala Press by artists such as Dorothy Blackham, Beatrice Moss Campbell (Lady Glenavy), Mary Cottenham Yeats and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. The Business Archives of the Cuala Press comprises approximately 81 boxes of material and includes some minute books of directors' meetings, cash books, letters, some original drawings for prints, sample books, and designs for embroidery. The Cuala Press collections are visually stunning and form an important part of Ireland's Creative Legacy.
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Dublin (re)drawnThe latest Cuala Press project blog post, ‘Dublin (re)drawn’, is partly a response to the negative view of the city created by the recent riots. Using a Cuala Press lens it portrays a vibrant city.
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A family occasionA Cuala Press blog about a happy family occasion. The marriage of Ruth Pollexfen.
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Marrying the visual and textual, Cuala’s A Broadside.This current blog explores illustration and decoration in some Cuala Press publications.
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Cuala Press Research. Anatomy of a photographThis blog looks at one photograph taken in the Cuala Press Baggot Street premises in 1932, and the avenues of research that image invites and the questions it asks.
Fagel Collection Project
The Fagel Collection at the Library of Trinity College Dublin is one of the most important and largest still-extant Dutch private libraries from the eighteenth century. The library was assembled as a working library by several generations of the Fagel family, of whom successive members held high offices in the Dutch Republic throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Trinity College Dublin purchased the collection of books, pamphlets and maps as a whole in 1802.
The Library of Trinity College Dublin and the KB, National Library of the Netherlands will collaborate in a three-year project (2020-2022) for the conservation and digital cataloguing of the Dutch 18th-century Fagel Collection by the Library of Trinity. The project 'Unlocking the Fagel Collection' is made possible by the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken).
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Marking Books and Bookmarks: Evidence of Provenance and Use in the Fagel CollectionWhen Trinity College Dublin purchased Hendrik Fagel the Younger’s library in 1802, it was not a collection of new, clean books. Some of the items had passed through numerous hands and institutions before finally arriving in the Old Library, and still today bear the marks of their previous lives on their leaves. Jenny Coulton provides an overview of the kinds of provenance evidence found in the collection today.
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On Display. The Fagel Family’s Copy of Maria Sibylla Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium’ (1719)Although the works of natural history found within the Fagel Collection are limited in number, they are some of the collection’s most visually striking objects. Emily Mattern reflects on the Fagel copy of Maria Sibylla Merian's 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium' (1719).
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Used Books? Tracing the History of Ownership in the Fagel CollectionBy Emily Monty Dr Emily Monty was the Fagel Collection Visiting Research Fellow in autumn 2022 hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. She will present her work at the symposium on Unlocking the Fagel Collection: The Library and its Context (June 21-23, 2023). At the turn of the nineteenth … Continue reading "Used Books? Tracing the History of Ownership in the Fagel Collection"
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Loose Book Illustrations in the Fagel Map Portfoliosby Emily Monty Dr Emily Monty was the Fagel Collection Visiting Research Fellow in autumn 2022. She was hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin. You can view a conversation between Emily and Ann-Marie Hansen, Project Manager of Unlocking the Fagel Collection here. The Fagel Collection … Continue reading "Loose Book Illustrations in the Fagel Map Portfolios"
Manuscripts for Medieval Studies Project
The project, generously funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will seek to research, catalogue, conserve, digitise and share 16 medieval manuscripts of international research significance. The project outputs will be presented in the Library's Digital Collections platform in III-F display, allowing us to share our collections with communities around the world, to catalyse research and educational dissemination on a global scale, whilst ensuring the preservation of our collections for generations to come. The selection of manuscripts demonstrates the breadth and variety of the Library's collections of source material for the study of the art, history and culture of the medieval period, and the history of the book in particular.
The project will also directly contribute to teaching and research within Trinity College Dublin, foster collaborations with other research institutes, and will open up engagement with the manuscripts to a global audience at the click of a button. This project was personally supported by Dr Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, who died on 15 April 2021. This project will stand as a memorial to his deep belief in the transformative power of libraries as a 'vital necessity for the soul, mind and future dreams of a nation'.
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Avoid like the Plague!While cold & flu season is well underway, check out this C16th recipe 'Against the Plague' in TCD MS93 Psalter. We tested the recipe on Friday - follow our steps here!
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Programme: The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts SymposiumHere is our programme for The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium. We look forward to seeing you next week for two fun days of medieval manuscripts!
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Registration Now Open! The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium: 30th Nov – 1st Dec 2023Registration now open for 'The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts' Symposium scheduled for 30th November to 1st December 2023 at Trinity College Dublin.
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A Manuscript and a Meeting Point: TCD MS 667 (Part 2)TCD MS 667 is a uniquely potent resource for reconstructing the social imaginary of medieval Limerick, illustrating with variety and colour the day-to-day multilingual activity of its preaching friars.