Friends of Cambridge University Library – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

The Rose Book Collecting prize 2022: Illustrated books from early-modern Japan

Posted on 13 October 2022 by Liam Sims

The Rose Prize is awarded annually to a current student of the University, for a coherent collection on any subject from any period. The winner […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Illustration, Japanese, Rose Book-Collecting Prize, Special Collections

Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean

Posted on 6 December 2018 by CUL Conservation

by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

A miscellany of new acquisitions

Posted on 5 September 2018 by Liam Sims

Last July this blog featured a note about a collection of Quaker books, bequeathed to the Library in 2016 by David J. Hall (1947-2015), former […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Wonderful Wisbech

Posted on 24 April 2018 by Jill Whitelock

It was a lovely spring day for the Friends of Cambridge University Library’s visit to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum on 14 April to explore […]

Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Library history

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

Bibliographical Prizes

Posted on 22 November 2016 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are now open for two prizes that Cambridge University Library offers annually. The Gordon Duff prize, named after the celebrated bibliographer of 15th-century English […]

Collectors and collecting, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Gordon Duff Prize, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Friends of the University Library event: Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding

Posted on 27 January 2016 by William Hale

On Wednesday, 3rd February, Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies at University College, London, will give a talk for the Friends […]

Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Rare Books

The Red Book of Thorney: A Cartulary and its Conservation

Posted on 6 November 2015 by Suzanne Paul

The cartulary of Thorney Abbey, known as the Red Book of Thorney, is a large 2-volume work begun in the early years of the fourteenth century, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Notness : the launch

Posted on 28 October 2015 by John Wells

On Wednesday 11 November, in the Milstein Seminar Rooms in Cambridge University Library, at 5.30 p.m., the poet Richard Berengarten will give a reading to mark […]

Friends of Cambridge University Library, Poetry

Friends event: ‘Melted into air, into thin air’: the radio scripts in the Deryck Cooke Archive

Posted on 13 October 2015 by William Hale

The 2014-15 programme of the Friends of the University Library gets underway on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:30 pm with a talk by Mark Doran […]

Archives, Events, Friends of Cambridge University Library

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