Category: Special Collections

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

Archive Management System: project update, December 2020-January 2021

Posted on 1 February 2021 by Special Collections

This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project will end at the end of April 2021 […]

Archives, Special Collections, Uncategorized

An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 2)

Posted on 22 January 2021 by Special Collections

Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

An astronomer’s personal notebook: Lewis of Caerleon & CUL MS Ee.3.61 (Part 1)

Posted on 11 January 2021 by Special Collections

Dr Laure Miolo is a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. As part of her project, she is working on Lewis of Caerleon’s […]

Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)

Posted on 14 December 2020 by Special Collections

175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts, Special Collections

From Spare Room to Reading Room: the journey of an archive collection

Posted on 10 December 2020 by Sian Collins

As the first section of the Spitting Image collection is about to be added to our new on-line catalogue, I thought it might be of […]

Archives, Collection Care, Conservation, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

A Georgian Music Book

Posted on 9 November 2020 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Francis Knights, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, whose research interests include musical history, instruments and performance practice from the 16th to […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Music, Special Collections