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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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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas at the UL
19–30 October 2011 The University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences, and is the only free festival of its […]
Continue reading »‘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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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