Cambridge collectors: The Steward Collection
Our theme of Cambridge collectors, accompanying the current exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’, continues with a post by Dawn Moutrey […]
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The Sanskrit Manuscripts Project, Cambridge, has recently launched its own website with full details about the project, news and features on some of the manuscripts […]
Continue reading »Royal West African Frontier Force
The Journal of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) was launched in July 2011, filling a gap in the research literature. Published twice a […]
Continue reading »Cambridge collectors: Samuel Savage Lewis
Gill Cannell’s piece on the Parker Library blog about the Corpus Christi College Fellow and Librarian Samuel Savage Lewis (1836–1891) continues our theme of Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’
During the six months of the current University Library exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ (18 Jan–16 Jun 2012) we’ll be […]
Continue reading »A very individual artist: Arthur Szyk and his world
The Library has recently received a generous donation of a copy of the very fine Passover ‘Haggadah’ illustrated by Arthur Szyk, the 20th century Polish […]
Continue reading »Shelf Lives
The ‘mission’ of the University Library’s exhibition centre has always been to offer the public a chance to see some of its most beautiful, precious […]
Continue reading »Epidemic print: medical incunabula and their readers – Incunabula Masterclass – 2 February 2012
On Thursday 2 February 2012, the Library will be holding its third masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. The masterclass, entitled ‘Epidemic print: medical […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Edmund Blunden
Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
Continue reading »The Japanese collections at Cambridge University Library and Gunsho ruiju
The modern Japanese collections at the University Library started after World War II, with funding granted following the Government’s Scarbrough Report of 1947 (‘Report of […]
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