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Erotica comes to Cambridge

Posted on 4 February 2020 by Liam Sims

When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, French, Illustration, Rare Books, Special Collections

A census of sixteenth-century Venice

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Special Collections

Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]

Acquisitions, Italian, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

A letter of apology to Thomas Young

Posted on 14 January 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

‘I am sorry I should have detained the proof longer than I intended, as the stone was just finished on Tuesday, and taken to Ackermann’s […]

Archives, Near and Middle Eastern, Science, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: The conservators’ challenge – Part 1

Posted on 12 December 2019 by CUL Conservation

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project has been a great support in encouraging continued professional development within the project. In this blog post we will […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 29 November 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]

Archives, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Apart … together

Posted on 12 November 2019 by Special Collections

In a previous #PolonskyGreek project blogpost Conserving fragments, conservators discussed their work on the fragments; this blogpost describes how cataloguers can deal with the challenges […]

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

The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods

Posted on 31 October 2019 by Emily Dourish

The Consortium of European Research Libraries recently held its annual seminar for 2019 in the Historisches Gebäude of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen under the […]

Digital Resources, Special Collections

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 1.

Posted on 7 October 2019 by CUL Conservation

Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. Since our last update on conserving fragments we have made great progress with the treatment of […]

Conservation, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

Archive Management System: October update

Posted on 3 October 2019 by Special Collections

Commitment to the project: confirmation needed We are working towards making the system available to partner organisations for data entry from January 2020 and will […]

Archives, Digital Resources, Manuscripts, Special Collections