Provenance – Page 2 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Books of Hours at Cambridge University Library

Posted on 11 August 2016 by James Freeman

Within its holdings of well over 450 illuminated manuscripts, Cambridge University Library possesses some 45 Books of Hours. As books designed for personal use within […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts

Castles in the air: two works of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian poetry

Posted on 18 March 2016 by Sophie Defrance

Thanks to a recommendation of Dr Rodrigo Cacho, Reader in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies, the Rare Books department of Cambridge University Library has […]

Collectors and collecting, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

New old books: January 2016

Posted on 1 February 2016 by William Hale

The Rare Books Department of the Library purchases over 200 printed books each year to enhance its historical collections. In the first of what we […]

Poetry, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

His royal favour: science, communication and livres d’apparat.

Posted on 18 December 2015 by Sophie Defrance

The current exhibition His royal favour: The books that built the Library celebrates the outstanding collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, (1646–1714). Bought by King […]

Exhibitions, French, Rare Books

The library of Gabriel Harvey

Posted on 19 March 2015 by Liam Sims

Discoveries are made frequently in libraries, and the University Library is no exception. Staff and readers alike may call up a volume which has been […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Robert Hooke and his Micrographia

Posted on 12 January 2015 by Liam Sims

When Samuel Pepys strode through the City of London to visit his bookseller – a journey he made frequently – on 2 January 1665, he […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550

Posted on 27 October 2014 by Emily Dourish

The Library’s latest exhibition Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 is now open to the public. Over fifty incunabula are […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books

A presentation copy from Oscar Wilde

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Liam Sims

Having been reminded by the BBC and British Library this morning that today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and […]

Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Cambridge collectors: Samuel Savage Lewis

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Special Collections

Gill Cannell’s piece on the Parker Library blog about the Corpus Christi College Fellow and Librarian Samuel Savage Lewis (1836–1891) continues our theme of Cambridge […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions

Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Special Collections

During the six months of the current University Library exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ (18 Jan–16 Jun 2012) we’ll be […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Music