A Book of Magic
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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »This release includes an important addition to our Royal Commonwealth Society collection. Thomas Dalrymple’s extraordinary photographs of the the former British Cameroons (now Nigeria) in 1937-1942 give […]
Continue reading »It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]
Continue reading »This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]
Continue reading »This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]
Continue reading »Treasures from our Chinese collections feature in a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases. The items, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »Three beautifully illustrated Persian manuscripts have been placed in the University Library on long-term deposit by the Royal Asiatic Society. Originally acquired by the Society […]
Continue reading »The Library recently acquired a collection of about fifty wholly engraved books, that is books in which both text and illustration are printed from intaglio […]
Continue reading »Several items from the library’s collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) are currently on display at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in an […]
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