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Silks, pearls and manuscripts

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Catherine Ansorge

On the wall of the Library’s fourth floor of landing hangs a portrait of a man dressed in a very fine silk or satin doublet […]

Cambridge University history, Collectors and collecting, librarians, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Reckoning the lost and found: tally sticks re-discovered at the UL

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Sian Collins

In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Burckhardt in Basel

Posted on 31 October 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

On the 19th and 20th of October a conference was held in Basel to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the explorer John […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology

Posted on 27 October 2017 by James Freeman

In 2015, the Sandars Reader in Bibliography was Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography at the Faculty of English. The subject of […]

Manuscripts, Sandars Lectures, Special Collections

Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library

Posted on 16 October 2017 by Special Collections

The Special Collections team are once again taking part in the University’s Festival of Ideas, a public engagement initiative that celebrates the arts, humanities […]

Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

‘The Tweed’ in Colombo Harbour, 1888

Posted on 2 October 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is thrilled to have acquired a beautiful historical painting from John Weatherstone, who has already generously donated much of the […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Edward Gibbon’s library: a new acquisition

Posted on 13 September 2017 by Liam Sims

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 […]

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

Sir George Biddell Airy: instrument making and engineering

Posted on 24 August 2017 by Dr Emma Saunders

A guest blog post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent Sir George Biddell Airy was the Astronomer Royal and the director of the Royal Observatory […]

Archives, Astronomy, Engineering, Science, Special Collections

A typographical trip to Lyon

Posted on 13 July 2017 by Liam Sims

The University Library has, since the 1970s, maintained an Historical Printing Room, where practical teaching on the history of printing has long taken place. We […]

Historical Printing, Rare Books, Special Collections, Uncategorized

The Third Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting

Posted on 7 July 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

On the 29-30th June, Cambridge University Library hosted a very successful meeting to discuss holdings of papyrus texts and issues surrounding their curation, conservation and […]

Conservation, Events, Near and Middle Eastern, Papyrus, Special Collections

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