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Solomon Negri and the ‘Marvels of Creation’

Posted on 20 February 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]

Exhibitions, Library history, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

‘Scandalous & libellous books’ at the University Library

Posted on 16 January 2017 by Liam Sims

As a copyright library, and the recipient over the years of many large private collections, the University Library often receives material which it might not […]

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

Curator for a Day

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Liam Sims

In November a group of thirteen students from Long Road and Hills Road Sixth Form Colleges in Cambridge spent a day being curators in the […]

600th anniversary, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

The Peterborough Cathedral Manuscripts and the Peterborough Lapidary

Posted on 28 November 2016 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young In 1970 Peterborough Cathedral placed its ancient manuscripts on permanent loan to Cambridge University Library, owing to the unsuitable […]

Manuscripts, Special Collections

Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller

Posted on 20 November 2016 by Liam Sims

Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]

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

A letter of gratitude

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]

Rare Books, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Reformation lives

Posted on 1 November 2016 by Liam Sims

One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]

Anniversaries, Bible Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

A Theatre of Treasures

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Anne Taylor

The third of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department: In 1968 an application was […]

Digital Resources, Events, Maps, Special Collections

Views of the Beagle Expedition

Posted on 6 October 2016 by Special Collections

The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Events, Special Collections

A Choirbook fit for a King?

Posted on 4 October 2016 by Special Collections

Today saw the beginning of our series of show-and-tell events, ‘Treasures of the University Library’, with talks given by Anna Pensaert, Head of Music Collections. […]

Manuscripts, Music, Special Collections

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