Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Several items from the library’s collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) are currently on display at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in an […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Ukraine Abroad: the Yakimiuk Collection

Posted on 15 September 2014 by John Wells

A guest post by Mel Bach of the Library’s European Collections and Cataloguing Department. An exhibition of material from the library of Peter Yakimiuk, donated […]

Collectors and collecting, Exhibitions, Rare Books

Codex Zacynthius

Posted on 11 September 2014 by Special Collections

Cambridge University Library is delighted to announce that we have reached our appeal target and secured the purchase of Codex Zacynthius. We are extremely […]

In the spotlight, Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Early Egyptian texts revealed; the papers of Sir Herbert Thompson

Posted on 29 August 2014 by Catherine Ansorge

The University Library has recently acquired from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, an archive of the personal papers of Sir Herbert Thompson, […]

Archives, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Cambridge Incunabula Masterclass – An Early Printed Herbal in Context: Illustration of the Herbarius latinus

Posted on 26 August 2014 by Laura

On Tuesday 2 September 2014 Cambridge University Library will be holding its 16th masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. The masterclass, entitled “An Early […]

Incunabula, Rare Books