The Trial of Jerry McGill
Fragments of history frequently emerge out of the collections kept in the Manuscripts Reading Room. While cataloguing the GE Moore collection, I stumbled across this […]
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Introducing GE Moore
GE Moore was famous during his lifetime for his book Principia Ethica (1903), a founding text of analytic philosophy. Those familiar with Moore only through […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Digital Library: Maimonides fragments and Newton’s dispute with Flamsteed released
A further 8,000 Genizah fragments are being published in the latest release of Cambridge Digital Library, bringing the overall total to 12,000. The Cairo Genizah […]
Continue reading »Ten Thousand and Counting
The Manuscripts Department has just reached a milestone with the arrival of its ten-thousandth Additional Manuscript, a collection of letters addressed to the poet and […]
Continue reading »Printers and their papers
The North Front corridor display cases are currently showing an array of works associated with some of the most important printers and typographers of the […]
Continue reading »Historic rivals join forces to save 1,000 years of Jewish history
Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have today announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to purchase the £1.2 million ‘Lewis-Gibson […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 23 January 2013
Dr Vincenzo Vergiani will give a paper on ‘South Asian manuscript culture as represented in the Sanskrit collections of the University Library, Cambridge’. The talk […]
Continue reading »Not Orville and Wilbur
In the world in general mention of the Wright Brothers brings to mind the pioneers of controlled powered manned flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright. In […]
Continue reading »The Zoologist’s Wartime Christmas
“In the swirl of the dark waters sighs the Spirit of the Sea. The moon has set. From out of the darkness flashes the scudding […]
Continue reading »Christmas in miniature
An additional Christmas image to complement our ‘Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar’. This miniature of the Virgin and Child is from a sixteenth-century manuscript featured in […]
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