Medieval Welsh manuscript digitised
A manuscript containing the earliest pieces of verse in Old Welsh, the Cambridge Juvencus (MS Ff.4.42), has just been digitised and added to the Cambridge […]
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Donation to digitise Japanese treasures
Treasures from the University Library’s Japanese Collections are to be digitised and made freely available to a global audience, thanks to a gift from Professor […]
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 […]
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Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]
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 »Darwin’s personal library put online
Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first […]
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