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‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown

Posted on 25 May 2020 by Special Collections

I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]

Christian Works, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Coping with isolation: Ernest Shackleton & the Cambridge University Press publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Posted on 18 May 2020 by Special Collections

Given permission to depart in a telegram from the Admiralty with the single word ‘Proceed’, the Endurance sailed from Plymouth on 8 August 1914 to […]

Archives, Photographs, Special Collections

Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition

Posted on 13 May 2020 by Special Collections

In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Art in the Entrance Hall, Exhibitions

Salisbury Cathedral’s 800th anniversary and a medieval poem in Cambridge University Library

Posted on 5 May 2020 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young. On 28 April 1220 Bishop Richard Poore laid the foundation stone of Salisbury Cathedral, which is unique among English […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts

Archive Management System update

Posted on 28 April 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for April 2020. The last few weeks have been a challenging time […]

Archives, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 2 April 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) project for March 2020. The last few weeks have been a period of extremely rapid […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: quires reunited

Posted on 10 February 2020 by Special Collections

Cataloguing the Greek manuscripts of Cambridge in the context of the Polonsky Foundation project allows new insight in the collections. By examining the manuscripts one […]

Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

A census of sixteenth-century Venice

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Special Collections

Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]

Acquisitions, Italian, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 24 January 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. There are many significant milestones for the AMS project coming this year and […]

Archive Management System update

Posted on 17 December 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project Migration A preliminary set of catalogues has been successfully migrated from the UL […]