Acquisitions – Page 3 – Cambridge University Library 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

Addition to the Donald Bowen archive

Posted on 21 January 2020 by John C.

The former Art Curator of the Commonwealth Institute, Donald Bowen, passed away at the age of 101 on 25 July 2019. During his 25 years […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tea merchants coming ashore

Posted on 25 October 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is very happy to announce that it has purchased at auction another oil painting to add to its rich collection […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Henry Compton’s Prayer Book, and John Wright’s Bible

Posted on 2 September 2019 by William Hale

Including as it does the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society as well as the collection of Arthur William Young, the University Library […]

Acquisitions, Rare Books

From Cereal Box to Archive Box

Posted on 28 June 2019 by Anne Taylor

In January 1994 Cambridge University Library’s Map Department received a large donation of maps from the estate of Kenneth Guy Messenger (1920-1993). As well as […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Maps, New on Janus

New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!

Posted on 6 June 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]

Acquisitions, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, women

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