Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 7 December 2011
Dr Jennifer Rampling will give a talk on ‘The phoenix in the library: using marginal illuminations to trace alchemical manuscripts in Tudor England’ on Wednesday, […]
Continue reading »Dr Jennifer Rampling will give a talk on ‘The phoenix in the library: using marginal illuminations to trace alchemical manuscripts in Tudor England’ on Wednesday, […]
Continue reading »Tuesday 6 December will see the launch in the the Library of Passio, a new collection of fourteen poems by János Pilinszky, translated from the […]
Continue reading »On Saturday 26 November Peter Jones, Fellow-Librarian of King’s College, will be giving a talk to the Friends of the Library entitled ‘Babies Make News’. […]
Continue reading »Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1464, The perfection of wisdom in 8,000 lines, features as the tenth image in the University’s ‘Picture This’ series—short articles […]
Continue reading »Dr Nick Hopwood will give a talk on ‘Icons of evolution: from alleged forgeries to textbook illustrations’ on Wednesday, 16 November, 5:00 pm in the […]
Continue reading »Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study. A major exercise in ‘linguistic […]
Continue reading »RCMS 37/5/76 As promised, the restored text of Queen Victoria’s rebuke to Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers has been reproduced, as no cryptanalyst […]
Continue reading »This month marks the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and sensibility, which was published in October 1811 as an anonymous work, ‘by […]
Continue reading »An article by Michael Carter on the Cambridge University Library copy of a Missal printed by Thielman Kerver in Paris, 1515 for the Cistercian rite […]
Continue reading »19–30 October 2011 The University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences, and is the only free festival of its […]
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