Cambridge collectors: Origins of the Whipple
Dawn Moutrey continues our theme of Cambridge collectors with a post on the origin of the Whipple Library in the collection of Robert Stewart Whipple. […]
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‘Shelf Lives’: Does size matter?
Dominique Ruhlmann of Trinity Hall Library continues the ‘Shelf Lives’ theme with her feature on a letter of advice from Charles Dickens to his son […]
Continue reading »Radical print culture
On Wednesday 15 February, John Gardner will give a talk in the Library on ‘Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822’. ‘“Radical” is a new […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: The Steward Collection
Our theme of Cambridge collectors, accompanying the current exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’, continues with a post by Dawn Moutrey […]
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The Sanskrit Manuscripts Project, Cambridge, has recently launched its own website with full details about the project, news and features on some of the manuscripts […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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