Medieval Welsh manuscript digitised
A manuscript containing the earliest pieces of verse in Old Welsh, the Cambridge Juvencus (MS Ff.4.42), has just been digitised and added to the Cambridge […]
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Speed maps now in the Cambridge Digital Library
John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures. Published in 1611/12, it marked the first time […]
Continue reading »Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550
The Library’s latest exhibition Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 is now open to the public. Over fifty incunabula are […]
Continue reading »Sassoon manuscripts on exhibition in Newcastle
Several items from the library’s collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) are currently on display at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in an […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library bids to purchase early Gospel manuscript
Cambridge University Library plans to raise £1.1m to purchase an outstanding Biblical manuscript. Dating from the 6th or 7th century, Codex Zacynthius is a palimpsest […]
Continue reading »‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria
For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]
Continue reading »The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world
It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century—and captivated the British public during an era […]
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Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]
Continue reading »Personal correspondence between Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker released online
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Cambridge Digital Library have collaborated to publish images and transcriptions of 1200 letters exchanged by Darwin with his closest friend, Joseph […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Digital Library: Maimonides fragments and Newton’s dispute with Flamsteed released
A further 8,000 Genizah fragments are being published in the latest release of Cambridge Digital Library, bringing the overall total to 12,000. The Cairo Genizah […]
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