Library illuminations
Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5:00 pm, Morison Room Following the publication of their book Western illuminated manuscripts: a catalogue of the collection in Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Library gives Newton papers to the world
Important manuscripts by Isaac Newton are released as the first collection of the new Cambridge Digital Library. Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of his Principia […]
Continue reading »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 »‘Passio’ launch, Tuesday 6 December
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 »Babies Make News
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 »‘Picture This #10’—’The perfection of wisdom’ in 8,000 lines
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 »Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 16 November 2011
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 »Powerful words
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 »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers 2
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 »The original Miss Austen: celebrating the bicentenary of ‘Sense and sensibility’
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 […]
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