Acquisitions – Page 2 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723), Grand Duke of Tuscany

Cosimo de Medici’s visit to Cambridge

Posted on 14 November 2022 by William Hale

The future Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723), visited England in the spring of 1669, as part of a series of European […]

Acquisitions, Astronomy, Poetry, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

Universal Joy: The Grand Festival at Yarmouth, 19 April 1814

Posted on 22 December 2021 by Sally Kent

A post by Samantha Evans (Darwin Correspondence Project). The library recently acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as a gift from Sir […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Read all about it! News in Georgian Cambridge

Posted on 12 November 2021 by Liam Sims

Among the items recently acquired by the Library (generously supported by the Friends of the UL) is a group of nearly fifty issues of an […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

‘Ruby, who worked with Prof Hopkins’: papers of Ruby Leader, Animal Technician in the Department of Biochemistry

Posted on 5 October 2021 by Sally Kent

Biochemistry is particularly strongly represented in the University Library’s modern science archive holdings. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds the personal paper collections of a number […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

A new acquisition from Gabriel Harvey’s library

Posted on 4 August 2021 by Liam Sims

The Library holds many books formerly in the possession of significant historical figures. Other than the simple pleasure of knowing that a book was once […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Recent acquisition: papers of Frank McClean, astronomer and educational benefactor

Posted on 18 June 2021 by Sally Kent

A small collection of papers relating to the engineer and astronomer Frank McClean (1837-1904) have recently been acquired by Cambridge University Library. The papers comprise two […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Astronomy, Engineering, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Science, Special Collections

Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 15 April 2021 by Special Collections

Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Science, Special Collections

Erotica comes to Cambridge

Posted on 4 February 2020 by Liam Sims

When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, French, Illustration, Rare Books, Special Collections

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