Conservation Conversations: Making Models
As part of the Alumni Festival, all are welcome to join the Conservation team at the University Library as they discuss and demonstrate the making […]
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A new acquisition from Gabriel Harvey’s library
The Library holds many books formerly in the possession of significant historical figures. Other than the simple pleasure of knowing that a book was once […]
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Recent acquisition: papers of Frank McClean, astronomer and educational benefactor
A small collection of papers relating to the engineer and astronomer Frank McClean (1837-1904) have recently been acquired by Cambridge University Library. The papers comprise two […]
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William Morris & the book
To mark the 125th anniversary of the publication of William Morris’s edition of the works of Chaucer, 26th June has been designated ‘International Kelmscott Press […]
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The study of animal behaviour in Cambridge: recently catalogued papers of Sir Patrick Bateson
The papers of the Cambridge ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson (1938-2017), a recent addition to Cambridge University Library’s science archive holdings, have now been catalogued. Bateson’s personal and scientific working papers complement existing […]
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Archive Management System project update: April-May 2021
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 […]
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War and words: Colin Macaulay and his manuscript connections
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 […]
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Monsters & manuscripts: the tales of Mélusine & Margaret
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 […]
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Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection
Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 4
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 […]
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