What’s so special about Music?
Maybe surprisingly, the invitation to join this blog as a contributor made me re-consider what’s so special about Music. Of course, being employed within the […]
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Incunabula lecture
On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]
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Some Victorian humour, to celebrate the Bard’s birthday today, April 23. Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays are vividly brought to life by J.V. Barret’s illustratations for […]
Continue reading »Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
The Rare Books Department has recently added two significant early sixteenth-century books to the University’s collections, both rare collected writings of the Cistercian Bernard of […]
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