Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 20 February 2020 by Liam Sims

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. We have been making great progress since the last Archive Management System update […]

Archives, Special Collections

Queensland, Australia

Posted on 14 February 2020 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to announce the publication, on Cambridge Digital Library, of three very interesting collections relating to nineteenth-century Queensland, Australia. […]

Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: quires reunited

Posted on 10 February 2020 by Special Collections

Cataloguing the Greek manuscripts of Cambridge in the context of the Polonsky Foundation project allows new insight in the collections. By examining the manuscripts one […]

Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Erotica comes to Cambridge

Posted on 4 February 2020 by Liam Sims

When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, French, Illustration, Rare Books, Special Collections

A census of sixteenth-century Venice

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Special Collections

Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]

Acquisitions, Italian, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 24 January 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. There are many significant milestones for the AMS project coming this year and […]

Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium and Workshop

Posted on 22 January 2020 by CUL Conservation

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Heidelberg proudly presents Greek Manuscripts Inside and Out: A Conservation Symposium […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Addition to the Donald Bowen archive

Posted on 21 January 2020 by John C.

The former Art Curator of the Commonwealth Institute, Donald Bowen, passed away at the age of 101 on 25 July 2019. During his 25 years […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

A letter of apology to Thomas Young

Posted on 14 January 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

‘I am sorry I should have detained the proof longer than I intended, as the stone was just finished on Tuesday, and taken to Ackermann’s […]

Archives, Near and Middle Eastern, Science, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 17 December 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project Migration A preliminary set of catalogues has been successfully migrated from the UL […]