
A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story
This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]
Continue reading »This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]
Continue reading »Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1822, the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790–1832) succeeded in his attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic text of the famous Rosetta […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »In this guest post, Cambridge PhD student Niall Dilucia writes about his research into early modern intellectual history, examining the relationship between philosophy, theology, and […]
Continue reading »In the course of our work as curators we receive hundreds of booksellers’ and auctioneers’ catalogues every year, many now in digital form, but plenty […]
Continue reading »On 25th August 1939, the German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, under the pretext of making a courtesy visit, sailed into the Port of Gdansk, anchoring 150m from […]
Continue reading »The manuscripts written in the Ethiopic language held in Cambridge University Library number fewer than seventy volumes in all, and for the most part, these […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »Entries are open for the 2021/22 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]
Continue reading »The later decades of the nineteenth century witnessed new directions being forged in the study of biblical texts, as new manuscript discoveries stimulated advances in […]
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