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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: quires reunited –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19568Therefore the rearrangement probably occurred while the manuscripts were in possession of Askew himself, or previously, when they were owned by Mead. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical -
The ghostly world of M. R. James – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=10334if the Raverats/Darwins/Keyneses had much connection with or influence on James. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Lectures: A material history of the Bible in England 1200-1600 –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16216being “an afterthought” or forgotten altogether. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arrangement – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14585Also on display will be a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century manuscript album of full-colour flower paintings, Ikenobō rikka no zu 池坊立華図, as well as woodblock-printed books of ikebana from ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. -
William Morris & the book – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21793or it will miss its mark, and in order to succeed, and to be ornament, it must submit to certain limitations, and become. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Pricking and Pouncing: Alchemical Discoveries in Special Collections…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=7297Hi Anke,. Some random comments:. “an ophite [intended to mean gnostic or esoteric] emblem…”. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
A Theatre of Treasures – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13179Some vary slightly with, for example, missing dates or plain rather than a stippled sea. . ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
The Falkland Islands and South Georgia – Cambridge University Library …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=18368Whales were harpooned with an explosive grenade, inflated to keep them from sinking and marked for retrieval by small boats known as catchers, which towed them to a factory ship or ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. -
Recognising books made in Cambridge: the Cambridge Bookbindings…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16768th. -century bindings from the workshops of Garret Godfrey or Nicholas Spierinck, 17. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Tour de France countdown: 3 – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=8337a horse or a male coach driver. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
‘Particles of light’: the legacy of Henry Bradshaw – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15426£30 Standard. £20 Students. Booking closes 22 November 2017. Enquiries. Please contact the co-convenors Dr Jill Whitelock (jw330@cam.ac.uk) or Liam Sims (ls457@cam.ac.uk). ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. -
Constance Gordon-Cumming: Intrepid Victorian Traveller … and Umbrella …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3430Rather than being a necessity during inclement weather, they were mostly used to denote the importance of royal or noble persons. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Rousseau’s tercentenary – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2802Who did it and do you know what year? Was it something fond for a book about Rousseau or was it an actual portrait of him? ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11172Colloquially known as Sellotape, pressure sensitive tapes were applied to items with the original intention to repair tears or to hold bundles of items together. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge -
Read all about it! News in Georgian Cambridge – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=22461Do you have any inkling or leads on the following which are currently perplexing me? ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Sir George Arthur and British Honduras – Cambridge University Library …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9236Y3087B_21 Mahogany Raft, Belize, 1911. As superintendent Arthur pursued more advantageous terms for the timber trade, which was chiefly in mahogany at this time, and defended commerce from piracy or ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. -
The medieval University goes online – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15576Here they wrote up their annual accounts; that is, receipts and expenditure of great variety from the Chest including fees received from students at academic exercises and forfeited ‘cautions’ or money ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy -
Pamphlets of late nineteenth-century British Colonial Africa –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21307Many of these titles are seldom represented in UK repositories, because they were published in Africa or continental Europe, and copies were not acquired by the UK’s legal deposit libraries. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible -
‘A valuable & extensive library’: Tim Munby’s book sales…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28022copies) some of ours appear not to be held in any other Library (or at least, are not catalogued). ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector? – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25359It bears the signature of Maria Bradshaw, most likely an aunt or sister of Henry, and was clearly read and used. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Glass plates of Oceania, South Asia, the Far East and Africa –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17177Its Chairman Dr Monty Rendall declared, ‘no amount of books or lectures will have half the effect of a voyage across the water. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Codex Zacynthius – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=8718But this is not the only text Codex Zacynthius contains. It is a palimpsest manuscript; in the thirteenth century the text of Luke was scraped or washed off and the leaves ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge -
A Schoolbook for Chinese Emperors – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13246Totally interesting in all my years never came across inner court text books of such either Zhuan Cao Zi style to Sanskrit or even Mongolian writings. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical -
Shanghai and the May 30th Movement: guest post by Elena Fulgheri –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17262Mission schools and hospitals were closed or left to Chinese staffs, and churches experienced a massive dislocation of their work. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
The ‘Album amicorum’ of Abraham Ortelius – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14031dated 1574; second, in a portrait made when the sitter was aged sixty or perhaps sixty-one (around 1579 or 1580), juxtaposed with an inscription dated 1584. . ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge -
‘A degree of a different character’: 100 years of the Cambridge PhD – …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17052period of residence and on production of a piece (or pieces) of written research output. ... Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Cambridge Digital Library. Cambridge University Archives. Cambridge University history. -
Robert Hooke and his Micrographia – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9478The book began by pointing to the microscopic irregularities in those man-made things which, to the naked eye, appear to be perfection itself, like the tip of a needle or ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge -
New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=155891922 ‘Church Missionary Outlook’, or used to illustrate its work in public lectures. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
The historical notebooks of Dorothy Chadwick – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=26843Dorothy Chadwick described history as “a pursuit as exciting and, too often, as baffling as any belonging to the realms of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.” (MS Add 8387/6/89vi). ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. -
Farewell to Changi – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14707project to conserve and digitise the Changi Archive or as it is now known, the Voices of Civilian Internment: WWII Singapore Archive. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894 –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12876He is set to file brass plates or to make screws, and soon grows disheartened with the monotonous work. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Englishing the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis and MS Kk.4.6 –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16120X. Noble (Farnham, 2014), pp. 207-234. Or C. Gantner, ‘The Lombard Rescension of the Liber Pontificalis’, in F. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
‘The World Is Not Enough’: Devotional Manuscripts of the Bond Family…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17249community that was as much at home at French royal courts as in London or provincial English towns. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Dear Archivist: A Compendium of Enquiries – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14845Pingback: Every subject under the sun, or how to categorise archival enquiries – Cambridge University Library Special Collections. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
A binding for the organist John Bull (1562/3-1628) – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12183Little about his early life is known, but he was born in 1562 or 1563 (which we know from a portrait of Bull at Oxford, dated 1589, which puts him in ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical -
Islamic Codicology at Cambridge University Library – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15171Hello. Kindly let me know if there have been any courses/ workshops on Introduction to Islamic Codicology or related subjects starting in 2019. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25175This is an important discovery. Are there plans for a Romanised edition or an Indonesian and/or English translation? ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Woven Manuscripts: A new exhibition – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13959To give it a squeeze or a sniff. You will leave traces of your enjoyment by darkening the fibre with your cumulative strokes. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24166The soul of the dead person, as the text assures, will then visit you that night either while you are asleep or awake. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Alan Howard and the Howard Foundation – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28107I forget whether it was the headmaster’s joke or Howard’s that he went up to Cambridge on Littlewoods’ scholarship.’ (Littlewoods was the company that ran the football pools.) The ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. -
Death, scandal and a disputed election – Cambridge University Library …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20884a pension of eight marks per year, two monks’ portions, and a fitting room or lodgings within the monastery. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
A Curious Cure for a Cambridge Book – Part One – Cambridge University …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24454A 1 or 2 hair brush! Makes me think of the micro miniature sculpturist Willard Wigan. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
A serendipitous Riddell: discovered by chance in the UL’s manuscripts …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12731At the start of the First World War many of the officers were either graduates living locally; or current students, but as the War progressed and demand exceeded supply, men with ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. -
Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849 – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20328the colonies, and thereafter be free to settle or return to the United Kingdom. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
New acquisition: The Gili Collection of Spanish & Catalan books – …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=6845The 18th- and 19th-c. booksellers’ catalogues mentioned in this entry were published in Madrid by Antonio Sancha (not Sancho) or de Sancha, d. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
The Christmas Carol in Print – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19504The earliest example at the University Library is a small pamphlet or chap-book printed at Shepton Mallet around 1780. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society. -
Edward Rose and the Rose Reader – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13538Rose had previously been in correspondence with Sir Isaac Pitman (or Eizah Pitman as he signed), founder of the Phonetic Institute, inventor of a shorthand system, and determined advocate of spelling ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. -
Thomas Erpenius: an Arabist of many talents – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=7330Thomas van Erpe, or Erpenius, as he is usually known, is best remembered for his collection of Arabic manuscripts which came to the University Library following his death from the plague ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. -
Siegfried Sassoon’s Poems for ‘Mamsy’ – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3039The notebook also includes an early example of Sassoon’s prose writing – a short story entitled ‘The story of Peter, or incidents in the life of a cat’. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge -
Dirt, Dust and Dodgy Joists, or, Memoirs of a Determined Archivist –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16230We might go out to survey the records and find the accumulation of centuries, or mere decades. ... Archives. Art in the Entrance Hall. Astronomy. Bible Society. Burma. Cambridge Bibliographical Society.
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