Irisbox

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Country	UK
Current location	Cambridge

I works at Cambridge University Library on the Cambridge Digital Library. Among other things I Will be adding citations to original documents.

Interested in:

• photography
• art
• hisotry
• History of science
• Bibliophilia
• Nature
• Digital humanities

I'm working on one of The Heritage Lab and WMUK Digital Fellowships 2025.^[1]

• Roger Machell Create?:
  • Has ODNB: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/45763
  • Lots in Curious Cures: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/medievalmedicalrecipes
  • https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/curiouscures
  • Was physician to Edward IV of England
• Aldebrandin of Siena (also spelled Aldobrandino of Siena) Expand:
  • https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-00005-00011/17

Notes 4 THLxWMUK Fellowship:

• Indian aesthetics - needs citations.
• Bhanudatta Misra - Digitised version Bhānudatta's work on aesthetic emotions/rasa https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-02435/3 , a translation of which was made by Sheldon Pollock and can be found here: https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/bhanudatta_misra_bouquet_2009.pdf . He was pos at court of Akbar, who's Akbar's tomb there's a nice photo of https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03022-C-E/83
• The Cambridge Kalāpustaka (MS Add.864) was probably commisioned by Jitamitra Malla there is an article about him here https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article/17/2/200/7637469. But check as he reigned (r. 1673–1696), and the MSS is tentatively dated around A.D. 1600.(!) Check through Malla dynasty (Nepal)...
• Rubrication mentioned originating in Ancient Egypt, but this chines oracle bone may predate the papyrus (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHI-BONES-CUL-00009/1) - the page is also very western medieval focus, so perspective could perhaps be broadened to include use in more diverse cultures? - see more links in my 1st essay.
• History of red a note saying it needs to be more encyclopaedic in style. AND also the page for Red is a bit of a mess, but especially the 'History and art' section, which is very western centric. (https://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Red_in_Buddhist_Color_Symbolism ?)
• Daniel Wright (the Scottish one) doesn't have a wikipedia page, but he seem fairly significant in Sanskrit studies... especially at Cambridge. There's a bio here (https://whowaswho-indology.info/23625/wright-daniel/) and his book "History of Nepal" is here (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278840/page/n267/mode/1up) and he's in wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23012845). This might be relevant (https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_40_04.pdf).
• History of Nepal also has multiple clean up issues, and cites Wright.
• Could add mentions in Sanskrit MSS to Yamuna
• Yogambara - is oonly a very small stub - could probably exapand a little? - There's some info with this manuscript: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01383/4
• Illuminated manuscript page also seems very Western centric... many Sanskrit examples of illumination... ?
• Could probably add citations to Raslila...

Here's a few images I've made and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons:

• A digram of a [convolutional neural network] architecture. I created this because I need to use such a diagram for a CC-BY published resource. Some example already existed, but this one uses an image that might typically be relevant to the use fo computer vision on content from Libraries.