Martin Bucer and the Reformation in Cambridge
Between 17th and 19th March, a number of Cambridge librarians – along with a host of academics – spent a happy time in the Parker […]
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New Old Books: March 2016
Books added to the collections of the Rare Books Department this month include a French almanac, a further addition to our holdings of Enlightenment texts, […]
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‘That noble cabinet’: the British Museum and its links with Cambridge
This week is Museum Week, which seems like an excellent occasion to look at books in the University Library with connections to our national museum […]
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A springtime post
To celebrate spring, and the upcoming holidays, here are a few illustrations of spring flowers from our Rare Books collections. Herbarum imagines […]
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Castles in the air: two works of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian poetry
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 […]
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A binding for the organist John Bull (1562/3-1628)
The virtuoso composer, musician and organ builder John Bull (who probably spent some time at the University of Cambridge) died on this day in 1628. […]
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New old books: February 2016
The second instalment of our monthly series listing additions to the Rare Books collections. This month we feature Greek philosophy as read in sixteenth-century France, […]
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How (and when) to visit the Fitzwilliam museum…in the 1850s.
Many of you will have seen that the Fitzwilliam museum turned 200 earlier this month. How would visitors born, like the museum, 200 years ago, […]
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Malthus in Cambridge
On this day in 1766 – 250 years ago – was born Thomas Robert Malthus, for whom bells rang out in Cambridge yesterday. A scholar, cleric and […]
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A pipeline from heaven: eight centuries of Dominican books
In 2016 Dominican friars celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of their order. To mark the event, Cambridge University Library is hosting A pipeline […]
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