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26 Jun 2024: In the early nineteenth century the Cambridge curriculum was dominated by the Mathematical Tripos. ... creation of the Society 30 October, 1819 Cambridge Philosophical Society, CPS 3/1).

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

26 Jun 2024: The novel writers I consider sought to set down the sounds of their regional dialects in the decades before the invention of the Phonetic Alphabet. ... The dialect writing that is generated is therefore an approximation of sounds, rather than the

26 Jun 2024: Julien Domercq – 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: Edgar Allan Poe – 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: 1833) bequeathed his library of rare travel books to the University of Cambridge. ... strong/p pThe name of William Bateson (1861-1926), the first professor of biology at Cambridge and later director of the John Innes Institute, is not well-known today.

26 Jun 2024: blank"Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global Impact of the Erpenius Collection/a/em. ... strong/p pOne of the world’s oldest known collections of Malay-Indonesian manuscripts is held in Cambridge University

26 Jun 2024: Hooke – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:42:34 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... 663px) 100vw, 663px" //ap id="caption-attachment-9492" class="wp-caption-text"Inscription in

26 Jun 2024: The second section of the work describes the sub-lunar sphere including minerals, plants and the animal kingdom, including human beings and their cultures. ... Probably, Negri knew of Lewis’s manuscript collection, which may well have been stored in

26 Jun 2024: Charles-Joseph Panckoucke – 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: paper engineering – 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

26 Jun 2024: goldweights – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:24:35 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Weights representing human figures, animals and important objects became widely associated

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: Keynes – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:42:34 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... 663px) 100vw, 663px" //ap id="caption-attachment-9492" class="wp-caption-text"Inscription in

26 Jun 2024: The second section of the work describes the sub-lunar sphere including minerals, plants and the animal kingdom, including human beings and their cultures. ... Probably, Negri knew of Lewis’s manuscript collection, which may well have been stored in

26 Jun 2024: Both men were officially restored under Elizabeth I and the presence of Bucer’s books in Cambridge seems appropriate, given his connections with the University. ... Pohl & L. Tether, ‘Remigius Guidon, Cambridge’s Old Paper Mill and the beginnings

26 Jun 2024: blank"Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global Impact of the Erpenius Collection/a/em. ... strong/p pOne of the world’s oldest known collections of Malay-Indonesian manuscripts is held in Cambridge University

26 Jun 2024: auction – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:42:34 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... 663px) 100vw, 663px" //ap id="caption-attachment-9492" class="wp-caption-text"Inscription in

26 Jun 2024: of Cambridge University Library, in the hope of finding anything of relevance to my doctoral research on Maltese twentieth-century art, I unexpectedly came across the Donald Bowen Collection. ... summer in Cambridge to consult Bowen’s files and other

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: Broadsides – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:33:13 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... animals throughout the entire range of Nature, except the domesticated ones, who are

26 Jun 2024: Western Australia – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:51:23 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Visit a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rcs/1"Cambridge Digital Library/a

26 Jun 2024: In the early nineteenth century the Cambridge curriculum was dominated by the Mathematical Tripos. ... the creation of the Society 30 October, 1819 Cambridge Philosophical Society, CPS 3/1).

26 Jun 2024: The second section of the work describes the sub-lunar sphere including minerals, plants and the animal kingdom, including human beings and their cultures. ... Probably, Negri knew of Lewis’s manuscript collection, which may well have been stored in

26 Jun 2024: Northern Territory – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:51:23 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Visit a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rcs/1"Cambridge Digital Library/a

26 Jun 2024: sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" //afigcaption class="wp-element-caption"Olivier Herford, emThe Peter Pan Alphabet/em (London: Hodder and Stoughtonem, /em1907). ... strong/p pOne of the world’s oldest known collections of Malay-Indonesian

26 Jun 2024: Booking is open for Dr Pyke’s free public talk on ‘/emBook history betwixt-and-between: Peter Pan in Cambridge University Library’s Tower Collection’ emon Wednesday 29 May. ... sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" //afigcaption

26 Jun 2024: 14031 The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). ... view/MS-LC-00002-00113/1"Cambridge Digital Library/a is the emAlbum amicorum/em of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598).

26 Jun 2024: George Clifford – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:34:36 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... the plants in the garden and herbarium of George Clifford (1685–1760), whose family

26 Jun 2024: href="mailto:camlibq@lib.cam.ac.uk"CamLibQ+/a, a network for queer library staff and allies in Cambridge. ... We are lucky that he was such a prolific author, so that copies of his work have survived here at Cambridge and in other places around the world.

26 Jun 2024: Cliff Webb donation – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:10:46 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... This process included the changeover from line shafts powered by water wheel, turbine,