Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zawga […]
Continue reading »Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first […]
Continue reading »The winner of this year’s Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Basie Bales Gitlin of Pembroke College, for his collection of salesman’s samples, ‘Canvassing books’. Read the […]
Continue reading »Torture was an inescapable fact of life in medieval jails, and the Genizah has preserved an extraordinary letter, probably written in the 13th century, in […]
Continue reading »The Munby Fellow, Dirk Imhof, will give a talk on ‘The Plantin Presses of Catholic Antwerp and Calvinist Leiden around 1600: working together or separately?’ […]
Continue reading »The project mapping Charles Darwin’s life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed after a […]
Continue reading »Kathryn Rudy will give a talk on ‘Delft manuscripts in the British Isles’ on Wednesday, 4 May, 5:00 pm in the Morison Room, Cambridge University […]
Continue reading »Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain has been digitised by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five surviving […]
Continue reading »Welcome to the blog for Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. This blog will be updated frequently with news and reports.
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