Exhibitions – Page 4 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A Quaker bequest to the University Library

Posted on 3 July 2017 by Liam Sims

In 2016 a large collection of Quaker material was added to the Library’s holdings and a selection is now on display in the Library’s Entrance […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arrangement

Posted on 12 June 2017 by Special Collections

Rare early illustrations of the Japanese art of flower arrangement, now known as ikebana 生花, will be on display in the University Library Entrance Hall […]

Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive

Posted on 15 May 2017 by CUL Conservation

by Fay Humphreys Cambridge University Press was established as the University’s own printing house in 1696, although the University had been authorised by Henry […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Conservation, Exhibitions

Jane Austen: letters and readers

Posted on 29 March 2017 by John Wells

In the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall brings together the three letters written by Austen held in […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Changi archives Entrance Hall exhibition

Posted on 21 February 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have mounted an exhibition in the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library displaying some of the most significant items […]

Conservation, Exhibitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Woven Manuscripts: A new exhibition

Posted on 21 February 2017 by Suzanne Paul

If you’ve visited the University Library recently, you may have noticed the striking new exhibition of woven artworks in our entrance hall. What you may […]

Art in the Entrance Hall, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Solomon Negri and the ‘Marvels of Creation’

Posted on 20 February 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]

Exhibitions, Library history, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library

Posted on 16 January 2017 by Liam Sims

As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Robert Bloomfield, ‘the first of rural bards’

Posted on 12 December 2016 by John Wells

The poet Robert Bloomfield, author of The farmer’s boy, was born in Suffolk two hundred and fifty years ago, in December 1766. Of humble parentage, […]

Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Rare Books