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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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