Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A Book of Magic

Posted on 14 September 2015 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Francis Young. Cambridge University Library MS Add. 3544, catalogued as ‘A Book of Magic’, has recently appeared in print for the […]

Manuscripts

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 7 September 2015 by Special Collections

This release includes an important addition to our Royal Commonwealth Society collection. Thomas Dalrymple’s extraordinary photographs of the the former British Cameroons (now Nigeria) in 1937-1942 give […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Cantabrigia Geographia: Cambridge in Maps 1574-1798

Posted on 1 September 2015 by Andrew

In the Map Room at Cambridge University Library it is possible to travel the world through both time and space from the comfort of a single […]

Maps

‘World’s loneliest white man’

Posted on 28 August 2015 by John C.

This was the headline of an American newspaper describing the British planter William French (1897-1960), who had greeted an American Museum of Natural History South […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Board of Graduate Studies 1920-55

Posted on 6 August 2015 by Jacky Cox

A project is under way in the University Archives to sort, clean and list the early student files of the Board of Graduate Studies or […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, New on Janus

‘Plots upon the stage’: Restoration drama in the University Library

Posted on 3 August 2015 by Liam Sims

In the 1980s the Library acquired two significant collections of seventeenth-century literature: the Brett-Smith collection of Restoration drama and the Verney collection of political and […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Decorated paper wrappers in the University Library

Posted on 29 July 2015 by Liam Sims

There are many beautiful books in the University Library, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to illustrated private press books of the nineteenth-century. In addition to the […]

Collectors and collecting, Italian, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Make and Create

Posted on 27 July 2015 by Special Collections

It’s not often that librarians get to work under canvas but this year the UL took part in the Cambridge University Museums Make and Create […]

Conservation, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections

Y30448U: 19 - Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Conservation of the Lewis-Gibson Collection: re-treatment of manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Posted on 20 July 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Mary French, Rebecca Goldie and Emma Nichols Cambridge University Library (the UL) contains the largest collection of medieval Jewish writings in the world. Around […]

Conservation, Lewis-Gibson Collection