‘By A Lady: A Hebrew-English dictionary by Abigail Lindo
By Tamar S. Drukker Among the many books left to the University of Cambridge by the late professor of Hebrew, Raphael Loewe (1919-2011) is a […]
Continue reading »By Tamar S. Drukker Among the many books left to the University of Cambridge by the late professor of Hebrew, Raphael Loewe (1919-2011) is a […]
Continue reading »By the time the decision was taken in March 1921 to build an entirely new home for the University Library west of the river, several […]
Continue reading »The Library holds extensive collections of books on bibliography, including on the history of libraries and collecting. One of the primary sources for understanding the […]
Continue reading »Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) I recently finished cataloguing the records of Alan Howard (1929-2020), the inventor of the Cambridge […]
Continue reading »This post comes as part of our series from the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project, courtesy of Project Conservator Marina Pelissari and Project Cataloguer Clarck Drieshen.
Continue reading »As archivists, we spend many hours looking through much material in personal papers collections relating to the often mundane activities of day to day life; […]
Continue reading »The University Library has recently acquired, with the generous support of the Friends of the National Libraries, a unique piece of eighteenth-century satirical French printing […]
Continue reading »As I have previously discussed,[1] Cambridge University Library (henceforth: CUL) has housed the main part of the personal library of the famous Dutch Orientalist, Thomas […]
Continue reading »This week the University Library was thrilled to host the launch of the AHRC-funded project “Small performances”: investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage […]
Continue reading »The Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been running since May 2022 and, as our two-year anniversary appears on the horizon, we thought followers […]
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