Hispanic – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Max Aub: a Spanish intellectual in Mexico

Posted on 30 May 2019 by Sonia Morcillo-Garcia

Researchers of the life and work of Max Aub (Paris, 1903 – Mexico City, 1972) will be pleased to hear about a recent donation from […]

Hispanic, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Castles in the air: two works of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian poetry

Posted on 18 March 2016 by Sophie Defrance

Thanks to a recommendation of Dr Rodrigo Cacho, Reader in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies, the Rare Books department of Cambridge University Library has […]

Collectors and collecting, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

From Andalusia to Cambridge

Posted on 19 October 2015 by Catherine Ansorge

This year the University Library celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the Royal Library; this gift from King George I brought to […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Hispanic, Library history, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

New acquisition: The Gili Collection of Spanish & Catalan books

Posted on 16 January 2014 by Special Collections

The University Library has recently acquired a collection of over 70 titles from the library of the late Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), a documentary film-maker, small-press […]

Collectors and collecting, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Rare Spanish plays on display

Posted on 24 October 2013 by Emily Dourish

The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]

Exhibitions, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions