Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A letter of gratitude

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]

Rare Books, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

First Impressions: The Gutenberg Bible

Posted on 12 November 2016 by Emily Dourish

Our eighth and final ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talk was given by Dr Emily Dourish, Deputy Head of Rare Books:

Cambridge Digital Library, Incunabula, Rare Books, Uncategorized

Agnes Miller Parker’s wood engravings: bringing the word to life

Posted on 11 November 2016 by John Wells

This year’s winner of the History of Art/University Library Curatorial Competition is Anna McGee, whose exhibition ‘Agnes Miller Parker’s wood engravings: bringing the word to […]

Exhibitions

Reformation lives

Posted on 1 November 2016 by Liam Sims

One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]

Anniversaries, Bible Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Borrowing back a book

Posted on 24 October 2016 by Jill Whitelock

Image: Detail of a 16th-century woodcut showing the Schools quadrangle with Rotherham’s library above (Sel.3.229) The first record of a book being borrowed from Cambridge […]

600th anniversary, Incunabula, Rare Books

Reading Between the Lines: An 11th-Century Bilingual Psalter

Posted on 22 October 2016 by James Freeman

The sixth of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Dr James Freeman, Medieval Manuscripts Specialist:

Cambridge Digital Library, Events, Manuscripts

A Schoolbook for Chinese Emperors

Posted on 13 October 2016 by Charles Aylmer

The fourth of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Charles Aylmer, Head of Chinese Collections:

Chinese, Events

A Theatre of Treasures

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Anne Taylor

The third of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department: In 1968 an application was […]

Digital Resources, Events, Maps, Special Collections

The Computer Science Tripos is 45 years old this month

Posted on 7 October 2016 by Jacky Cox

Four months after it started work in August 1970, the the University’s Computer Syndicate submitted a report (published in Cambridge University Reporter No.4735, Vol. CI, […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Science