While elucidating finer points of library administration and the placing of manuscripts on the shelves, the early catalogues of the University Library additionally bear witness […]
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A new subject guide has been published on the University Library website on the subject of the handwritten and printed registers, inventories and catalogues of […]
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The University Library has, since the 1970s, maintained an Historical Printing Room, where practical teaching on the history of printing has long taken place. We […]
Continue reading »On the 29-30th June, Cambridge University Library hosted a very successful meeting to discuss holdings of papyrus texts and issues surrounding their curation, conservation and […]
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A month ago, we announced the digitisation of the earliest known draft of part the King James Bible, MS Ward B of Sidney Sussex College. […]
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By Anna Johnson Cambridge University Library may not often be thought of as a significant repository for papyri, but we do have a moderately […]
Continue reading »Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]
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Our eighth and final ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talk was given by Dr Emily Dourish, Deputy Head of Rare Books:
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Would you like the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most precious items from Cambridge University Library’s collections? To celebrate our 600th anniversary, […]
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It is widely accepted that Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, the day of his 52nd birthday. Today, a drop-in event (2:00 to 4:00 pm) […]
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