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Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California

Posted on 14 May 2019 by James Freeman

Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887

Posted on 10 May 2019 by Dr Emma Saunders

To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Science, Travel

Caribbean photographs

Posted on 8 May 2019 by John C.

The most recent release of Royal Commonwealth Society photographs on Cambridge Digital Library takes us to the Caribbean. We’re delighted that virtually all Commonwealth members […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introduction to Conservation

Posted on 1 April 2019 by CUL Conservation

Cambridge University Libraries (CUL) has recently launched a two-year collaborative project with the University of Heidelberg. The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project aims to preserve, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Watercolours of 19th-century Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Mauritius and the Channel Islands

Posted on 5 February 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has published a detailed on-line catalogue for one of its largest and most historically significant art collections, RCMS 40. It […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Illustration, Royal Commonwealth Society

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, Special Collections

Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary

Posted on 18 October 2018 by John C.

This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

On a Roll: A New Acquisition

Posted on 28 September 2018 by James Freeman

Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce the acquisition of a late 13th-century rental roll originally made for the Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity, Ipswich. […]

Acquisitions, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Uncategorized

Devotion Made Digital: Encoding CUL MS Ll.5.18

Posted on 27 July 2018 by Special Collections

Guest post by Katherine Dixon, a PhD student in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, on her experience of collaborating with the Cambridge Digital Library. […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts