Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 23 January 2013
Dr Vincenzo Vergiani will give a paper on ‘South Asian manuscript culture as represented in the Sanskrit collections of the University Library, Cambridge’. The talk […]
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Parisian Nights
Fragments from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection were on the move last week, heading to an exhibition on The thousand and one nights at the Institut […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 28 November 2012
Dr Martin Davies will give a talk on ‘The Master of the Barbo Missal and the coming of print to Italy’ on Wednesday, 28 November, […]
Continue reading »TODAY: Adam Gacek, ‘Of bookworms, plants and squiggles: my unexpected journey into the world of Islamic manuscripts’
Adam Gacek, former Head of Islamic Studies Library and Faculty Lecturer in Arabic Manuscript Studies, McGill University, Montreal, will speak today, 19 November 2012, in […]
Continue reading »‘This lamented Minister’: the papers of Spencer Perceval at Cambridge University Library
Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, was shot dead in the House of Commons lobby on 11 May 1812. His killer was John Bellingham, described by P.J. […]
Continue reading »Landbeach to Linnaeus: a guest post by Jaap Harskamp
Cambridge University Library holds a rich collection of botanical studies printed in the Low Countries, many of which were originally part of the collection of […]
Continue reading »The man who discovered a ‘lost’ wonder of the world
Among the numerous treasures at Cambridge University Library are the private documents of the explorer John Lewis Burckhardt, who rediscovered the ancient city of Petra […]
Continue reading »‘Shelf Lives’ round-up
As the ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition draws to a close (Sat 16 June is the last day), here’s a round-up of more posts on the theme […]
Continue reading »Matthew Parker as collector: the ones that got away I
There are still a couple of weeks left to see the ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition at the University Library, which closes on 16 June. And in […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 16 May 2012
Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow, will give a talk on ‘Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France’ on Wednesday, 16 May, 5:00 pm in the […]
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