Christmas in miniature
An additional Christmas image to complement our ‘Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar’. This miniature of the Virgin and Child is from a sixteenth-century manuscript featured in […]
Continue reading »An additional Christmas image to complement our ‘Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar’. This miniature of the Virgin and Child is from a sixteenth-century manuscript featured in […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library’s copy of Montaigne’s Essais (Paris, 1652), formerly owned and annotated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), currently features in a major exhibition at the […]
Continue reading »One book, three collectors: Kathleen Butler, A.N.L. Munby, Gilbert de Botton A book can have many lives, passing from one collector to another over the […]
Continue reading »“It’s no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most important books in the story of Britain”—Michael Wood on ‘The Moore Bede’. The […]
Continue reading »This month marks the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and sensibility, which was published in October 1811 as an anonymous work, ‘by […]
Continue reading »Two recent acquisitions enhance our strong collections in natural history, anatomy and the history of collecting. The first is a catalogue of the natural history […]
Continue reading »Some Victorian humour, to celebrate the Bard’s birthday today, April 23. Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays are vividly brought to life by J.V. Barret’s illustratations for […]
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