
A unique treasure: Johann Wansleben’s Ethiopic notes and letters
The manuscripts written in the Ethiopic language held in Cambridge University Library number fewer than seventy volumes in all, and for the most part, these […]
Continue reading »The manuscripts written in the Ethiopic language held in Cambridge University Library number fewer than seventy volumes in all, and for the most part, these […]
Continue reading »This volume was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]
Continue reading »A post by Samantha Evans (Darwin Correspondence Project). The library recently acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as a gift from Sir […]
Continue reading »This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]
Continue reading »The later decades of the nineteenth century witnessed new directions being forged in the study of biblical texts, as new manuscript discoveries stimulated advances in […]
Continue reading »Biochemistry is particularly strongly represented in the University Library’s modern science archive holdings. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds the personal paper collections of a number […]
Continue reading »Among the recently catalogued collections of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) Archives are 7 archival boxes containing notebooks and glass plates originally belonging to British […]
Continue reading »A small collection of papers relating to the engineer and astronomer Frank McClean (1837-1904) have recently been acquired by Cambridge University Library. The papers comprise two […]
Continue reading »To mark the 125th anniversary of the publication of William Morris’s edition of the works of Chaucer, 26th June has been designated ‘International Kelmscott Press […]
Continue reading »The papers of the Cambridge ethologist Sir Patrick Bateson (1938-2017), a recent addition to Cambridge University Library’s science archive holdings, have now been catalogued. Bateson’s personal and scientific working papers complement existing […]
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