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Category: Manuscripts. Posted on. 14 September 2015. by Special Collections. Guest post by Dr Francis Young. Cambridge University Library MS Add. 3544, catalogued as ‘A Book of Magic’, has recently appeared in print for the […]. This release

Category: Exhibitions. Posted on. 24 June 2019.

Category: Photographs. Posted on. 7 March 2017. by Special Collections. A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]. The Royal Commonwealth Society

Category: Friends of Cambridge University Library. Posted on. 30 May 2014. by Special Collections. The Friends of Cambridge University Library are hosting a talk by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey on the ‘Literature of the Liberation’ in conjunction

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 16 October 2014. by Liam Sims. Having been reminded by the BBC and British Library this morning that today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and […]. Michael John Fuller worked at

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 23 March 2015. by Andrew. John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures. Published in 1611/12, it marked the first time […]. Posted on. 19

Category: Digitisation. Posted on. 4 March 2017. by James Freeman. The latest addition to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Album amicorum of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The Album amicorum – literally ‘book of friends’ – […]. Posted on

Category: Manuscripts. Posted on. 11 May 2018. by John Wells. A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]. Last week the UL hosted its

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 21 November 2017. by Sian Collins. In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 7 October 2019. by CUL Conservation. Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. Since our last update on conserving fragments we have made great progress with the

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 14 May 2019. by James Freeman. Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today

enquirers, both past […]. On 24 April 1917, one hundred years ago today, Private Frederick George Dunnett of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment and a member of University Library staff […]. Cambridge University Digital

Category: Recent acquisitions. Posted on. 1 June 2021. by Sally Kent. The papers of the Cambridge ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson (1938-2017), a recent addition to Cambridge University Library’s science archive holdings,

may not have known exist!” This comment on a feedback form handed in at the inaugural Cambridge Special Collections […]. 24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 25 December 2015. by Liam Sims. A. N. L. ‘Tim’ Munby (1913-1974), who has featured on these pages before, has at least two connections with Christmas. Most importantly, he was born […]. Posted on. 15

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 12 April 2016. by Liam Sims. Between 17th and 19th March, a number of Cambridge librarians – along with a host of academics – spent a happy time in the Parker […]. The Royal Commonwealth Society

Category: Archives. Posted on. 28 January 2022. by Jacky Cox. Historic volumes from outside the the University Library, intrinsic to University ceremonial, have been recent visitors to the Conservation Studio. These two books contain the […].

Category: Cambridge Digital Library. Posted on. 30 September 2014. by Special Collections. Several items from the library’s collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) are currently on display at the Hatton Gallery in

Tag: Company paintings. Posted on. 24 April 2015.

Tag: Lascaux 498 HV. Posted on. 24 April 2015.

Category: Cambridge Digital Library. Posted on. 19 October 2015. by Catherine Ansorge. This year the University Library celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the Royal Library; this gift from King George I brought to […].

Category: Archives. Posted on. 24 August 2017.

Category: Library history. Posted on. 8 December 2018. by Catherine Ansorge. …upon our Hebrew manuscripts” said Henry Bradshaw in June 1865. Bradshaw was Head of the manuscript collections in the University Library and was keen to […]. Venice

Category: Science. Posted on. 15 April 2021. by Special Collections. Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]. ‘I am sorry I

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 17 December 2013. byPosted on. 16 December 2013. by Special Collections. Cambridge University Library plans to raise £1.1m to purchase an outstanding Biblical manuscript. Dating from the 6th or 7th century,

Category: Acquisitions. Posted on. 28 June 2019. by Anne Taylor. In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]. Posted on. 6

Local archival repositories vary widely in size from large (like the University Library’s Archives […]. 24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head.

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Tag: Ultrasonic welding. Posted on. 24 April 2015.

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 27 February 2023. by Special Collections. Post by Alina Wanitzek (Assistant Librarian, Department of Psychology) In October 2022, San Francisco–based queer public historian and book dealer Gerard Koskovich

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 7 December 2020. by Special Collections. This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. It has been a busy couple of months for the AMS project and […]. Nathan Smith, runner-up in

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 22 February 2019. by Special Collections. A guest post by Edwin Rose, PhD student in the Department of the History & Philosophy of Science, working on ‘Managing nature in the age […]. This post is by

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 18 October 2021. by Special Collections. This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]. As part of the

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 12 June 2020. by Special Collections. In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]. In the first in a

Tag: Tippling Sally. Posted on. 24 February 2017.

Tag: Joanne Limburg. Posted on. 24 May 2012.

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 19 March 2012. by Special Collections. Dott. Laura Nuvoloni (Incunabula Project Cataloguer, Cambridge University Library) will give a talk on ‘Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge

Author: Emily Dourish. Posted on. 18 February 2014. by Emily Dourish. The display cases outside the Map Department are hosting a new exhibition entitled “Conduct literature for and about women in Italy: prescribing and describing life”. The […

Category: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection. Posted on. 30 November 2012. by Special Collections. Fragments from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection were on the move last week, heading to an exhibition on The thousand and one nights at the

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 13 December 2011. by Special Collections. Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5:00 pm, Morison Room Following the publication of their book Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 3 June 2015. by Special Collections. The June release of the Cambridge Digital Library sees the launch of our new Chinese collection. Our initial selection shows the temporal range, diversity of […]. Posted

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 3 July 2014. by Special Collections. In honour of the coming of the Tour de France to Cambridge on 7th July, the Special Collections blog will feature a daily image from […]. In honour of the coming of the

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 19 November 2012. by Special Collections. Adam Gacek, former Head of Islamic Studies Library and Faculty Lecturer in Arabic Manuscript Studies, McGill University, Montreal, will speak today, 19 November 2012,

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 12 March 2018. by Special Collections. Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]. Posted

Author: James Freeman. Posted on. 24 January 2018.

Tag: Books and Babies. Posted on. 24 November 2011.

Tag: Botanical books. Posted on. 24 March 2016.

Tag: Literary papers. Posted on. 24 April 2019.

Identifying and describing this […]. Posted on. 24 August 2011.

Post by Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023/24, who is using the University Library’s legal deposit holdings (the Tower Collection) to survey illustrated […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories.