Christian Works – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Erpenius’ ‘Coptic’ manuscript at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 15 January 2024 by Majid Daneshgar

Since Thomas Erpenius’ death in November 1624, a large number of scholars have been writing about the importance of his personal library which arrived at […]

Christian Works, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

War and words: Colin Macaulay and his manuscript connections

Posted on 17 May 2021 by Catherine Ansorge

One of Cambridge University Library’s most treasured manuscripts, the Codex Zacynthius, is displayed in the Library’s exhibition ‘Ghost Words: reading the past’. The focus here […]

Bible Society, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Greek, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, French, Medieval manuscripts, 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