John Ruskin and the King James Bible
Ruskin, like many English writers, was inspired by the King James Bible: not only its religious teaching but its rhythms, imagery and social subversiveness. On […]
Continue reading »Incunabula lecture
On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]
Continue reading »Red letter day for Darwin Correspondence Project
The project mapping Charles Darwin’s life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed after a […]
Continue reading »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 4 May 2011
Kathryn Rudy will give a talk on ‘Delft manuscripts in the British Isles’ on Wednesday, 4 May, 5:00 pm in the Morison Room, Cambridge University […]
Continue reading »Comic Shakespeare
Some Victorian humour, to celebrate the Bard’s birthday today, April 23. Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays are vividly brought to life by J.V. Barret’s illustratations for […]
Continue reading »Mapping the origins of a masterpiece
Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain has been digitised by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five surviving […]
Continue reading »Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
The Rare Books Department has recently added two significant early sixteenth-century books to the University’s collections, both rare collected writings of the Cistercian Bernard of […]
Continue reading »Welcome
Welcome to the blog for Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. This blog will be updated frequently with news and reports.
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