Christian Works – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Death, scandal and a disputed election

Posted on 3 November 2020 by James Freeman

To write of a disputed election at this moment in time may be thought to invite controversy, to tempt fate, or at least to be […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085

Posted on 5 October 2020 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on […]

Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Digitisation, Fragments, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

‘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

‘The World Is Not Enough’: Devotional Manuscripts of the Bond Family in Cambridge University Library

Posted on 5 March 2019 by Special Collections

Here’s a guest post by Dr Francis Young about a recent acquisition by the UL: On 22 February 2019 Cambridge University Library received the generous […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Christian Works, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Pembroke College’s Benefactors’ Book

Posted on 1 June 2018 by James Freeman

A guest post from Jonathan Nathan, who is studying for his PhD in History. He is investigating the circulation of underground atheist literature through pre-modern […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College

Englishing the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis and MS Kk.4.6

Posted on 21 May 2018 by James Freeman

A guest post from Thomas Langley, who completed his MPhil on wealth and authority in early medieval Italy in 2017, and has continued studying at […]

Christian Works, Events, Manuscripts

Puzzling Scribes and Medieval Puzzles: Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Posted on 9 January 2018 by Special Collections

Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]

Christian Works, Manuscripts

Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney

Posted on 8 December 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collection Care, Conservation, Digital Resources, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts