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Sounds of the Samurai

Posted on 15 February 2022 by Special Collections

The Library’s current exhibition, Samurai: History and Legend, is drawn from our world-class collections, home to one of the pre-eminent collections of Japanese material anywhere outside of […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Special Collections

A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts

Conservation Conversations: Making Models

Posted on 4 August 2021 by Special Collections

As part of the Alumni Festival, all are welcome to join the Conservation team at the University Library as they discuss and demonstrate the making […]

Conservation, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Archive Management System project update: April-May 2021

Posted on 25 May 2021 by Special Collections

This is the final regular update about the Archive Management System project. The AMS project team benefited hugely by drawing on the expertise of many […]

Archives, Special Collections

Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, French, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Archive Management System: project update April 2021

Posted on 29 April 2021 by Special Collections

This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project ends at the end of April and the […]

Archives, Uncategorized

Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection

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 […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Science, Special Collections