Category: Manuscripts

Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?

Posted on 2 August 2016 by Frank

At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]

Manuscripts, Manuscripts Image of the Month

Live tweeting the first day of the Somme from the diary of Siegfried Sassoon

Posted on 7 July 2016 by Special Collections

The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon which are held in Department of Manuscripts and Archives are a unique and fascinating resource for both historians and literary […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Manuscripts

Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde

Posted on 8 June 2016 by Frank

James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Manuscripts Image of the Month

Performing lost songs

Posted on 23 April 2016 by Suzanne Paul

Note: readers of this post may be interested to learn that, since its publication, MS Gg.5.35 has been digitised in full and the images are […]

Events, Manuscripts, Music

The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures

Posted on 21 April 2016 by Yasmin

Eighty years ago in 1936 Cambridge University Library received a manuscript, bequeathed by its owner Agnes Smith Lewis at her death in 1926. It is […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 8 March 2016 by Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]

600th anniversary, Archives, Digital Resources, Events, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Library history, Manuscripts, Maps, Medicine, Music, Science, Special Collections

A pipeline from heaven: eight centuries of Dominican books

Posted on 8 February 2016 by John Wells

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 […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Friends of the University Library event: Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding

Posted on 27 January 2016 by William Hale

On Wednesday, 3rd February, Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies at University College, London, will give a talk for the Friends […]

Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Rare Books