Cambridge collectors: Samuel Savage Lewis
Gill Cannell’s piece on the Parker Library blog about the Corpus Christi College Fellow and Librarian Samuel Savage Lewis (1836–1891) continues our theme of Cambridge […]
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Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’
During the six months of the current University Library exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ (18 Jan–16 Jun 2012) we’ll be […]
Continue reading »The Japanese collections at Cambridge University Library and Gunsho ruiju
The modern Japanese collections at the University Library started after World War II, with funding granted following the Government’s Scarbrough Report of 1947 (‘Report of […]
Continue reading »Library illuminations
Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5:00 pm, Morison Room Following the publication of their book Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library gives Newton papers to the world
Important manuscripts by Isaac Newton are released as the first collection of the new Cambridge Digital Library. Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 7 December 2011
Dr Jennifer Rampling will give a talk on ‘The phoenix in the library: using marginal illuminations to trace alchemical manuscripts in Tudor England’ on Wednesday, […]
Continue reading »‘Picture This #10’—’The perfection of wisdom’ in 8,000 lines
Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1464, The perfection of wisdom in 8,000 lines, features as the tenth image in the University’s ‘Picture This’ series—short articles […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 16 November 2011
Dr Nick Hopwood will give a talk on ‘Icons of evolution: from alleged forgeries to textbook illustrations’ on Wednesday, 16 November, 5:00 pm in the […]
Continue reading »Powerful words
Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study. A major exercise in ‘linguistic […]
Continue reading »A Cistercian Missal in Cambridge University Library
An article by Michael Carter on the Cambridge University Library copy of a Missal printed by Thielman Kerver in Paris, 1515 for the Cistercian rite […]
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