The Book of Saint Albans (or Boke of Seynt Albans) is the common title of a 1486 book, a compilation of matters relating to the […]
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It is widely accepted that Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, the day of his 52nd birthday. Today, a drop-in event (2:00 to 4:00 pm) […]
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To celebrate spring, and the upcoming holidays, here are a few illustrations of spring flowers from our Rare Books collections. Herbarum imagines […]
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Thanks to a recommendation of Dr Rodrigo Cacho, Reader in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies, the Rare Books department of Cambridge University Library has […]
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Many of you will have seen that the Fitzwilliam museum turned 200 earlier this month. How would visitors born, like the museum, 200 years ago, […]
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The tale of Beowulf [done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris and A.J. Wyatt.] was issued #OnThisDay in 1895. Cambridge […]
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The current exhibition His royal favour: The books that built the Library celebrates the outstanding collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, (1646–1714). Bought by King […]
Continue reading »John Couch Adams, the collector. It is this time of the year when Cambridge University Library advertised this year’s competition for the 2015 Rose Book-Collecting […]
Continue reading »A previous post about the current exhibition in the entrance hall, Scribes and Printers, features recent acquisitions by the Department of Manuscripts. This post, in […]
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