Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Manuscripts from the Gayer-Anderson brothers

Posted on 21 May 2019 by Catherine Ansorge

One of the most iconic items in the British Museum’s Egyptology collection is the bronze cat figurine commonly known as the ‘Gayer-Anderson cat’. It is […]

Collectors and collecting, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California

Posted on 14 May 2019 by James Freeman

Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887

Posted on 10 May 2019 by Dr Emma Saunders

To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Science, Travel

Caribbean photographs

Posted on 8 May 2019 by John C.

The most recent release of Royal Commonwealth Society photographs on Cambridge Digital Library takes us to the Caribbean. We’re delighted that virtually all Commonwealth members […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Conflicting Chronologies: A New Exhibition at the Whipple Library

Posted on 6 May 2019 by Special Collections

A guest post by Meira Gold, PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her research concerns the history of Victorian Egyptology […]

Exhibitions, Rare Books

Out of Disorder came Order!

Posted on 1 May 2019 by Anne Taylor

The 24th April 2019 saw the culmination of a four-month project to move approximately 49,000 German maps from Cambridge University Library Map Department to the […]

Maps, Recent acquisitions

Medieval Palaeography Workshop Programme 2019

Posted on 29 April 2019 by James Freeman

Every Easter Term, the University Library hosts the Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop.

Events, Manuscripts, Special Collections

The literary papers of Humphrey Jennings

Posted on 24 April 2019 by Sally Kent

The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts holds two boxes of papers relating to the filmmaker, painter and writer Humphrey Jennings (1907-50), now catalogued as […]

Acquisitions, Archives, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Care in the handling of books

Posted on 15 April 2019 by James Freeman

A reminder of good practice by Henry Creswick (University Librarian 1949-67), courtesy of the University Archives:

Cambridge University Archives, Collection Care, librarians, Library history, Uncategorized

Family Fun: Manuscripts by Candlelight

Posted on 13 April 2019 by James Freeman

Next Wednesday (17th April) sees the return of Manuscripts by Candlelight at the University Library. This event first took place as part of Twilight at the Museums […]

Events, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Music