The Allberry fragments: Manichaean texts rediscovered
A lecture by Professor Nils Arne Pedersen on ‘The Syriac-Manichaean “Allberry fragments”: how they were rediscovered, and what they can tell us’ will be held […]
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‘It is a person’s privilege to go to hell’: how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alice Ambrose fell out
It’s known that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein fell out with one of his most beloved students, the American logician Alice Ambrose. The source of the […]
Continue reading »‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria
For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library and the Blitz
We are delighted to announce the publication of a detailed on-line catalogue for the archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society. This collection is composed of […]
Continue reading »The Library Hand
A collection of miscellaneous handwriting samples, recently catalogued by Dr J.F. Coakley, has yielded a few slips of paper bearing alphabets and other specimens for […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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