Exhibitions – Page 6 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

From Andalusia to Cambridge

Posted on 19 October 2015 by Catherine Ansorge

This year the University Library celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the Royal Library; this gift from King George I brought to […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Hispanic, Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

His Royal Favour: the Books that Built the Library

Posted on 1 October 2015 by Emily Dourish

The University Library’s latest exhibition looks in detail at the formation and arrival in Cambridge of the Royal Library, a collection that has been at […]

Collectors and collecting, Digital Resources, Exhibitions, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rupert Brooke: 100 years on

Posted on 28 September 2015 by Liam Sims

The latest exhibition to occupy the Library’s Entrance Hall cases concerns Rupert Brooke, who died a century ago this year (23 April 1915) and was […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

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

Make and Create

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Special Collections

It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]

Conservation, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Exhibition of Chinese treasures

Posted on 9 June 2015 by Special Collections

Treasures from our Chinese collections feature in a new exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall cases. The items, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Exhibitions

The death of Sir Thomas Picton at Waterloo

A damned serious business

Posted on 1 May 2015 by John Wells

It has been a damned serious business… the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. (The Duke of Wellington, quoted by Thomas Creevey) […]

Exhibitions

Ornaments to be engrav’d

Posted on 7 April 2015 by Special Collections

The Library recently acquired a collection of about fifty wholly engraved books, that is books in which both text and illustration are printed from intaglio […]

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

Aldus Manutius (1452? – 6 February 1515) : A humanist printer for humanist readers. Aldine editions at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 9 February 2015 by Laura

The 500th anniversary of Aldus Manutius’s death on 6 February 1515 (Incunabula Project Blog) is celebrated this year by libraries and institutions all over the […]

Exhibitions, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections