Abbreviationes online
New on eresources@cambridge A-Z : Abbreviationes online Abbreviationes Online is a database designed to help researchers in the identification and expansion of abbreviations of Latin […]
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Festival of Ideas
Special Collections staff are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities and social […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 28 November 2012
Dr Martin Davies will give a talk on ‘The Master of the Barbo Missal and the coming of print to Italy’ on Wednesday, 28 November, […]
Continue reading »Pietro Bembo and the University Library’s copy of De Aetna (1496)
Autograph variants and corrections of the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) have been identified in Cambridge University Library’s copy of his dialogue De Aetna published in Venice by […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 21 March 2012
Dott. Laura Nuvoloni (Incunabula Project Cataloguer, Cambridge University Library) will give a talk on ‘Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge University Library’ […]
Continue reading »Sandars Lectures 2011-2012
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography was instituted in 1895 with a bequest of £2000 left to the University by Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College […]
Continue reading »Epidemic print: medical incunabula and their readers – Incunabula Masterclass – 2 February 2012
On Thursday 2 February 2012, the Library will be holding its third masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. The masterclass, entitled ‘Epidemic print: medical […]
Continue reading »Incunables Masterclass, 1 November 2011
On Tuesday 1 November 2011, the Library will be holding its second masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. Prof. David McKitterick, Librarian at Trinity […]
Continue reading »Incunabula lecture
On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]
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