
Joyful Sounds of Salvation
The Library Choir has been performing carols in the University Library Entrance Hall for more than thirty years. This year each of the seven carols […]
Continue reading »The Library Choir has been performing carols in the University Library Entrance Hall for more than thirty years. This year each of the seven carols […]
Continue reading »This post is by Munby Fellow Dr Majid Daneshgar, whose project for 2022/23 is entitled Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global […]
Continue reading »Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1822, the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790–1832) succeeded in his attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic text of the famous Rosetta […]
Continue reading »A post by Dr Marie Turner. A square of parchment no larger than a postage stamp, bearing a scattering of words from a Middle English […]
Continue reading »Private press books have been acquired by the Library since the late nineteenth century, when William Morris’s Kelmscott Press (active 1891-98) led to the flourishing […]
Continue reading »The future Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723), visited England in the spring of 1669, as part of a series of European […]
Continue reading »The Rose Prize is awarded annually to a current student of the University, for a coherent collection on any subject from any period. The winner […]
Continue reading »Animals often crop up among the medical recipes in the over 180 medieval manuscripts that Cambridge University Library is currently conserving, cataloguing, and digitising in […]
Continue reading »In this guest post, Cambridge PhD student Niall Dilucia writes about his research into early modern intellectual history, examining the relationship between philosophy, theology, and […]
Continue reading »Eagle-eyed users of the Library’s iDiscover catalogue may have noticed a new feature when they log in and search for Rare Books; a small but […]
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