Sandars Lectures 2013
The Sandars Reader for 2013 is Professor Jim Secord, who will lecture on ‘Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian […]
Continue reading »Ten Thousand and Counting
The Manuscripts Department has just reached a milestone with the arrival of its ten-thousandth Additional Manuscript, a collection of letters addressed to the poet and […]
Continue reading »Printers and their papers
The North Front corridor display cases are currently showing an array of works associated with some of the most important printers and typographers of the […]
Continue reading »Historic rivals join forces to save 1,000 years of Jewish history
Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have today announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to purchase the £1.2 million ‘Lewis-Gibson […]
Continue reading »Peter Treveris’ Grete herball of 1529
Herbals – collections of texts about the medicinal uses of plants and herbs – were compiled and used by many of the world’s great civilisations […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 23 January 2013
Dr Vincenzo Vergiani will give a paper on ‘South Asian manuscript culture as represented in the Sanskrit collections of the University Library, Cambridge’. The talk […]
Continue reading »Not Orville and Wilbur
In the world in general mention of the Wright Brothers brings to mind the pioneers of controlled powered manned flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright. In […]
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