Dr James Freeman

Medieval Manuscripts Specialist

Directorate: Research Collections

Department: Rare Books and Early Manuscripts

Phone: 01223 333140

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Principal Investigator, Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries

Chair, Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections

Assistant Editor, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society

Publications:

'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 17 (2021), 131-157 [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.71290]
'An unrecorded fragment of a folding almanac', Notes & Queries, 69 (2022), 198-200 [https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac079]
'F.J. Norton's manuscripts', The Library, 7th ser., 23 (2022), 254-260 [https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac030]
'The "Catholicon Anglicum" (British Library, Add. MS. 89074): an analysis of the physical evidence of its production and binding', Electronic British Library Journal (2016) [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.71157]
with A.S.G. Edwards, 'Further manuscripts of Higden's "Polychronicon"', Notes & Queries, 63 (2016), 522-524 [https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjw186]

Associated research projects

Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries

A project to conserve, catalogue and digitise medieval medical recipes, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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Medieval Manuscripts Fragments at Cambridge University Library

Fragmentarium, funded by Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation and Swiss National Science Foundation.

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