Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney

Posted on 8 December 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collection Care, Conservation, Digital Resources, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts

MS-ADD-09852-00006-MS Add.9852/6/2, front free endpaper

New acquisition on display: ‘Poems by Siegfried Sassoon’

Posted on 4 December 2017 by John Wells

The friendship formed by the poet Siegfried Sassoon with the literary hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell was among the most formative of his life. Begun by correspondence […]

Exhibitions, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recent acquisitions

Rose Book-Collecting Prize 2018

Posted on 29 November 2017 by Suzanne Paul

Entries are open for the 2018 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections. The Prize […]

Collectors and collecting, Rose Book-Collecting Prize

Reckoning the lost and found: tally sticks re-discovered at the UL

Posted on 21 November 2017 by Sian Collins

In an institution that’s been collecting archives for centuries it’s almost impossible to know about everything that you hold – therefore there are always lovely […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Gordon Duff Prize 2018

Posted on 16 November 2017 by Jill Whitelock

The Gordon Duff Prize is an annual competition for an essay on any one of the following subjects: bibliography, palaeography, typography, book-binding, book-illustration, or the […]

Gordon Duff Prize

The Digital Recovery of a Lost Page of Codex Bezae

Posted on 14 November 2017 by Special Collections

A guest post by Elijah Hixson. Elijah is currently finishing his PhD on 6th-century Greek manuscripts of the Gospels at the University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Manuscripts, Uncategorized

‘Particles of light’: the legacy of Henry Bradshaw

Posted on 7 November 2017 by Jill Whitelock

A conference celebrating 150 years since Henry Bradshaw’s appointment as University Librarian at Cambridge 4 December 2017 Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library ‘Books are to […]

Anniversaries, Events, Library history

Burckhardt in Basel

Posted on 31 October 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

On the 19th and 20th of October a conference was held in Basel to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the explorer John […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Special Collections

The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Digital Resources, German

Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology

Posted on 27 October 2017 by James Freeman

In 2015, the Sandars Reader in Bibliography was Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography at the Faculty of English. The subject of […]

Manuscripts, Sandars Lectures, Special Collections