Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Start them young: close encounters with movable books

Posted on 8 June 2018 by Emily Dourish

As Special Collections curators and subject specialists we’re all used to hosting visits to the University Library for academics, students and members of the adult […]

Illustration, Rare Books

Reading Euclid at Cambridge

Posted on 4 June 2018 by Liam Sims

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the subject of the current exhibition in the Library’s Entrance Hall display cases, which runs until 27th June. Written by […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books, Special Collections

Judicial Combat

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Frank

These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]

Manuscripts

Pembroke College’s Benefactors’ Book

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Special Collections

A guest post from Jonathan Nathan, who is studying for his PhD in History. He is investigating the circulation of underground atheist literature through pre-modern […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College

Workshop on the Life and Work of Sir George Biddell Airy

Posted on 30 May 2018 by Dr Emma Saunders

A guest post by Daniel Belteki, University of Kent On 29 June 2018, Cambridge University Library will host a workshop on the life and […]

Archives, Astronomy, Engineering, Events, Manuscripts, Science, Special Collections

Englishing the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis and MS Kk.4.6

Posted on 21 May 2018 by Special Collections

A guest post from Thomas Langley, who completed his MPhil on wealth and authority in early medieval Italy in 2017, and has continued studying at […]

Christian Works, Events, Manuscripts

Dirt, Dust and Dodgy Joists, or, Memoirs of a Determined Archivist

Posted on 16 May 2018 by Sian Collins

In the last few days I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion on Twitter about the alleged erasure of the role of the archivist and […]

Lectures: A material history of the Bible in England 1200-1600

Posted on 14 May 2018 by Special Collections

A forthcoming public lecture series at Cambridge University Library: A Material History of the Bible in England, 1200-1600 by Dr Eyal Poleg, Senior Lecturer in […]

Events, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

The J. H. Prynne Papers

Posted on 11 May 2018 by John Wells

A long-term aim at the University Library is to ensure that the manuscript holdings adequately represent a group of poets so closely associated with the […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions