‘Picture This #4’—John Speed map of Cambridgeshire
The map of Cambridgeshire from the Library’s copy of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is the fourth image in the University’s […]
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The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark
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 »Darwin’s personal library put online
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 »Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2010-2011
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 »‘Only death remains for him’: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Fragment of the Month
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 »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 18 May 2011
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 »Red letter day for Darwin Correspondence Project
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 »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 4 May 2011
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 »Mapping the origins of a masterpiece
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 […]
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