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Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Exhibition of Chinese treasures

Posted on 9 June 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Exhibitions

Cambridge Digital Library—June update

Posted on 3 June 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Royal Commonwealth Society

Royal Asiatic Society treasures arrive on deposit

Posted on 26 May 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern

Ornaments to be engrav’d

Posted on 7 April 2015 by Special Collections

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 […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Sassoon manuscripts on exhibition in Newcastle

Posted on 30 September 2014 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Codex Zacynthius

Posted on 11 September 2014 by Special Collections

Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce that we have reached our appeal target and secured the purchase of Codex Zacynthius. We are extremely […]

In the spotlight, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Cambridge University Press at War

Posted on 21 July 2014 by Special Collections

A fascinating post about the activities of Cambridge University Press during World War I has been published on the Press’s blog, fifteeneightyfour. It’s written by […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Photographs, Special Collections

The cyclist as hero: Harry Graf Kessler and private press books

Posted on 7 July 2014 by Special Collections

This guest post, written by Dr Jaap Harskamp (formerly Curator of Dutch & Flemish collections at the British Library, who is now working on the […]

German, Rare Books, Special Collections