Ten illustrated editions of Pride and prejudice from the Library’s collections will feature in an exhibition at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from 21–23 June 2013. […]
Continue reading »A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
Continue reading »The Essay Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah BBC Radio 3, 27–31 May 10:45pm The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of manuscripts […]
Continue reading »Professor Alison Sinclair will give a paper on ‘Today we shall go slumming: telling tales in the University Library´s Spanish sueltos collection’. The talk will […]
Continue reading »Elizabeth Upper (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library) will give a paper on ‘Beheaded cows, English religious politics and the title vignette of Rede me and […]
Continue reading »The items described here are on display in the Anderson Room cases at Cambridge University Library until 10 May 2013 The erhu epitomises Chinese music; […]
Continue reading »The Darwin Correspondence Project and Cambridge Digital Library have collaborated to publish images and transcriptions of 1200 letters exchanged by Darwin with his closest friend, Joseph […]
Continue reading »A further 8,000 Genizah fragments are being published in the latest release of Cambridge Digital Library, bringing the overall total to 12,000. The Cairo Genizah […]
Continue reading »The Sandars Reader for 2013 is Professor Jim Secord, who will lecture on ‘Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have today announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to purchase the £1.2 million ‘Lewis-Gibson […]
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