Edward Gibbon’s library: a new acquisition
Thanks to three private collectors in the twentieth century, Cambridge libraries contain significant holdings of books by and from the library of Edward Gibbon, eighteenth-century […]
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Student, soldier and author: Basil Godfrey Quin MC.
The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres was fought one hundred years ago between July and November 1917. One of the regiments involved was the […]
Continue reading »The Fluctuating Fortunes of the University Library during the 15th and 16th Centuries
While elucidating finer points of library administration and the placing of manuscripts on the shelves, the early catalogues of the University Library additionally bear witness […]
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Dear Archivist: A Compendium of Enquiries
Working in the University Archives as Archives Trainee gives one a unique insight into the varied academic interests and behaviours of our enquirers, both past […]
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Comings and Goings: The Movement of Manuscripts at the University Library before 1600
A new subject guide has been published on the University Library website on the subject of the handwritten and printed registers, inventories and catalogues of […]
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‘With a zeal and skill beyond praise’: the first woman to work at the University Library
The portrait of Anne Jarvis, first female University Librarian 2009-16, was unveiled on the 7th July. Inquiring into the identity of the first female member […]
Continue reading »Solomon Negri and the ‘Marvels of Creation’
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 […]
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‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library
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 […]
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Curator for a Day
In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]
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Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller
Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]
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