Hour by Hour, Day by Day: Devotions in the Fifteenth Century
The physical dimensions of a Book of Hours give you immediate clues as to how they were used: they are small, often pocket-sized books, intended […]
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Books of Hours at Cambridge University Library
Within its holdings of well over 450 illuminated manuscripts, Cambridge University Library possesses some 45 Books of Hours. As books designed for personal use within […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?
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 […]
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Live tweeting the first day of the Somme from the diary of Siegfried Sassoon
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 […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde
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 […]
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Performing lost songs
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 […]
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The irresistible search for hidden Scriptures
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 […]
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Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
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. […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »Friends of the University Library event: Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding
On Wednesday, 3rd February, Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies at University College, London, will give a talk for the Friends […]
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