Suzanne Paul – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Secrets of the Abbey: History Returns

Posted on 5 May 2022 by Suzanne Paul

Big celebrations are taking place this year in the town of Bury St Edmunds, marking the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of its Benedictine abbey. […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Pembroke College, Special Collections

Rose Book Collecting Prize 2019

Posted on 16 November 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2019 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]

Collectors and collecting, Poetry, Rare Books, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Codices, coding and cake: a medieval manuscript hackathon

Posted on 8 May 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Last week the UL hosted its first hackathon – to create web apps using glossed manuscripts from the UL’s collections, in just a few days. […]

Digital Resources, Events, Manuscripts

Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2018

Posted on 29 November 2017 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2018 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]

Collectors and collecting, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Liberation Lecture and Pop-up Exhibition

Posted on 13 October 2017 by Suzanne Paul

On 14 November, the University Library will host a pop-up display of rare material from the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, the definitive collection of French books on […]

Collectors and collecting, Events, Exhibitions, French, Rare Books

Woven Manuscripts: A new exhibition

Posted on 21 February 2017 by Suzanne Paul

If you’ve visited the University Library recently, you may have noticed the striking new exhibition of woven artworks in our entrance hall. What you may […]

Art in the Entrance Hall, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Bibliographical Prizes

Posted on 22 November 2016 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are now open for two prizes that Cambridge University Library offers annually. The Gordon Duff prize, named after the celebrated bibliographer of 15th-century English […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Gordon Duff Prize, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Performing lost songs

Posted on 23 April 2016 by Suzanne Paul

Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]

Events, Manuscripts, Music

The Red Book of Thorney: A Cartulary and its Conservation

Posted on 6 November 2015 by Suzanne Paul

The cartulary of Thorney Abbey, known as the Red Book of Thorney, is a large 2-volume work begun in the early years of the fourteenth century, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Digging Deeper 2 launches today

Posted on 21 April 2015 by Suzanne Paul

Numerous classes are held in the UL every year introducing students to the delights and challenges of working with medieval manuscripts. Undergraduates and postgraduates studying […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digital Resources, Manuscripts