Category: Special Collections

Archive Management System project update: April-May 2021

Posted on 25 May 2021 by Special Collections

This is the final regular update about the Archive Management System project. The AMS project team benefited hugely by drawing on the expertise of many […]

Archives, Special Collections

War and words: Colin Macaulay and his manuscript connections

Posted on 17 May 2021 by Catherine Ansorge

One of Cambridge University Library’s most treasured manuscripts, the Codex Zacynthius, is displayed in the Library’s exhibition ‘Ghost Words: reading the past’. The focus here […]

Bible Society, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Greek, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two fifteenth-century manuscripts in Cambridge collections. This […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, French, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection

Posted on 15 April 2021 by Special Collections

Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Collectors and collecting, Conservation, Science, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 4

Posted on 8 April 2021 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to another Polonksy Foundation Greek Manuscripts blogpost. We have an update on the treatment of CUL MS Dd.4.39 an 11th century Psalter and CUL […]

Conservation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Word & image in a sixteenth-century prayer book

Posted on 8 February 2021 by Liam Sims

We all put things in books. Whether it’s bookmarks (old train tickets, receipts or some other bit of paper no longer required), related ephemera (magazine […]

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