Burckhardt in Cambridge
Housed inside a small brown box shelved alongside other Library manuscripts is an assortment of 15 slim notebooks formerly belonging to the scholar and explorer […]
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Sandars Lectures 2011-2012
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography was instituted in 1895 with a bequest of £2000 left to the University by Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College […]
Continue reading »Hard luck
The ‘hard luck story’ has a long pedigree, and there has always been difficulty knowing how much — if anything — in each tale is […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Edmund Blunden
Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
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Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5:00 pm, Morison Room Following the publication of their book Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library gives Newton papers to the world
Important manuscripts by Isaac Newton are released as the first collection of the new Cambridge Digital Library. Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia […]
Continue reading »‘Picture This #10’—’The perfection of wisdom’ in 8,000 lines
Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1464, The perfection of wisdom in 8,000 lines, features as the tenth image in the University’s ‘Picture This’ series—short articles […]
Continue reading »Powerful words
Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study. A major exercise in ‘linguistic […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers 2
RCMS 37/5/76 As promised, the restored text of Queen Victoria’s rebuke to Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers has been reproduced, as no cryptanalyst […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is completing a detailed online description of the papers of the politician Hugh Childers (1827–1896). One of the most fascinating items […]
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