The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]
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An epic from a tiger’s library
Among the many beautiful and fascinating manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection is one particularly magnificent copy of the famous Persian epic poem, the Shāhnāma or […]
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A Georgian Music Book
This guest post is by Francis Knights, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, whose research interests include musical history, instruments and performance practice from the 16th to […]
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Introduction to the Ely assize files
A new tranche of assize court records has recently been added to the online catalogue, ArchiveSearch, the new Cambridge-wide archive management system. Following the completion of cataloguing of the series […]
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A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085
This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Binding Model – Part 2.
Welcome to another Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Conservation blogpost. In this blogpost we will be sharing our next steps of the creation of the Medieval […]
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‘The finest place in the University’: George Herbert (1593-1633), Public Orator
By Jacqueline Cox (Keeper of University Archives) 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the election of the poet George Herbert as Public Orator, a post he held until 1627. First created by university statute […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: When a Greek Manuscript is … German
Not all Greek manuscripts are Greek. It may sound strange, but you only need to remember that many Greek manuscripts kept in libraries all over […]
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‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions
In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]
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Some Islamic manuscripts from Africa
In among the very varied items which constitute Library’s Islamic manuscript collection there is a small number of texts originating from the Saharan and sub-Saharan […]
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