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A chance discovery: Guest post by Jason Scott-Warren

Posted on 18 October 2017 by Special Collections

One of the newest arrivals in the University Library’s Rare Books department was a chance find on Ebay. The History of Our B. Lady of […]

Christian Works, Poetry, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, women

New old books: February 2016

Posted on 4 March 2016 by William Hale

The second instalment of our monthly series listing additions to the Rare Books collections. This month we feature Greek philosophy as read in sixteenth-century France, […]

Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550

Posted on 27 October 2014 by Emily Dourish

The Library’s latest exhibition Private Lives of Print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 is now open to the public. Over fifty incunabula are […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books