Projects
The first teaching of the historical Buddha in the Deer Park at Sārnāth (eastern Uttar Pradesh). The central figure is the Buddha making the gesture of teaching. Two disciples honour the Buddha. At the front of the lotus throne is a wheel of the law (dharmacakra) and two deer. From MS Add. 1464, fol. 127v (detail), a palm leaf manuscript of The perfection of wisdom in 8,000 lines, the oldest dated illustrated Sanskrit manuscript in the world (997 CE). Part of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project.
Current externally funded projects
- Cambridge University Press Archive Project
- Darwin Correspondence Project (see also the project blogs 'Darwin and Gender', 'Darwin and Human Nature' and 'Darwin for Schools')
- Incunabula Cataloguing Project (see also project blog)
- Jardine Matheson Archive
- Printers' Papers Project
- Revealing Hidden Collections: Tai Buddhist Literature in UK and SE Asian collections
- Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive
- Sanskrit Manuscripts Project
- Siegfried Sassoon's papers (project blog)
- Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit projects
- Tower Project (see also project blog)
Other projects
Recently completed projects