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26 Jun 2024: the Guildhall (image courtesy of Nigel Grimshaw)/figcaption/figure pstrongBiographical note by Nigel Grimshaw/strong /p pThomas Hobson is Cambridge’s most famous townsperson. ... Hobson was born around 1544 in Buntingford, a stopping-place 22 miles

26 Jun 2024: Jean-Francois Champollion – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:31:11 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... But his success was based to a significant degree on the earlier work carried

26 Jun 2024: It was donated to Cambridge University Library by Samuel Sanders at the end of the nineteenth century. ... animal glue on the spine were softened with a wheat starch paste poultice and mechanically removed using a fine spatula and bone folder.

26 Jun 2024: pciteCharles Hanson Towne: ‘On first looking into the manuscript of emEndymion/em‘ (1915)/cite/blockquote pBefore working in Cambridge I had seen few medieval manuscripts. ... a’, a 13supth/sup-century French manuscript with stunning illuminated

26 Jun 2024: after 1632./p pThe fifth part (henceforth Gg.6.40v) contains a Telugu alphabet with its transliteration produced by Pieter Willemsz van Elbinck (d. ... ftn3"[3]/a/p pPeter Floris begins his Telugu text in Gg.6.40v, with ఒనమఃశయమః and

26 Jun 2024: Abu Simbel – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:37:17 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... em, generally written on papyrus and illustrated with figures of gods, humans and animals

26 Jun 2024: coffee – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:48:20 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Clearing the jungle in remote, mountainous regions entailed hard work, danger from disease and

26 Jun 2024: Peterborough Cathedral Library – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:52:48 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Dr Francis Young In 1970 Peterborough Cathedral placed its ancient

26 Jun 2024: John Elliotson – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:35:58 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... pNow largely forgotten, the practice of a

26 Jun 2024: Bangladesh – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:23:52 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... There were also reports on forest and animal conservation. Technological and scientific

26 Jun 2024: Encyclopédie méthodique – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Fri, 15 May 2020 15:03:38 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... This set came to the Library in 1902 with the collection of Lord Acton, Regius

26 Jun 2024: Ramesses II – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:37:17 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... em, generally written on papyrus and illustrated with figures of gods, humans and animals

26 Jun 2024: Robert Browning – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:35:58 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... pNow largely forgotten, the practice of a

26 Jun 2024: Captain Cook – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:28:27 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... As the century progressed, the bestiality of Cook’s assailants became emphasised,

26 Jun 2024: movable books – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:08:19 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... This week I had a more challenging audience; a group of 8- and 9-year-olds in Year 4 from

26 Jun 2024: school visits – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:08:19 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... This week I had a more challenging audience; a group of 8- and 9-year-olds in Year 4 from

26 Jun 2024: and Splendour’, in The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. ... 53v/p/div pWithin its holdings of well over 450 illuminated manuscripts, Cambridge University Library possesses some 45 Books of Hours.

26 Jun 2024: About fifteen of Harvey’s books survive in Cambridge libraries, including the college libraries at Trinity, St John’s, Pembroke, Magdalene and Emmanuel. ... 1576 until his death in 1611 and rector of St Botolph’s church in Cambridge 1581-4.

26 Jun 2024: It was donated to Cambridge University Library by Samuel Sanders at the end of the nineteenth century. ... animal glue on the spine were softened with a wheat starch paste poultice and mechanically removed using a fine spatula and bone folder.

26 Jun 2024: Harriet Martineau – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:35:58 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... pNow largely forgotten, the practice of a