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Material Evidence in Incunabula – guest post

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Special Collections

The following post has been written by Ester Peric, an intern in the Rare Books Department for the month of August updating MEI records (material […]

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Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Gustave David (1860–1936): the Cambridge bookseller

Posted on 20 November 2016 by Liam Sims

Cambridge has a long history of bookselling, stretching back well before the advent of printing into the mists of medieval time. Books were first printed […]

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Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

First pop-up talk in Rare Books – Come and hear about the first images printed in colour in England

Posted on 15 June 2016 by Sophie Defrance

The Book of Saint Albans (or Boke of Seynt Albans) is the common title of a 1486 book, a compilation of matters relating to the […]

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Events, Historical Printing, Rare Books

Cambridge connections: Trinity Hall and the University Library

Posted on 3 December 2015 by Liam Sims

About sixty years before the University had its own purpose-built library, William Bateman (Bishop of Norwich) founded Trinity Hall in Cambridge. It remains one of […]

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Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

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 […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Exhibitions, Incunabula, Rare Books

Incunables Masterclass, 1 November 2011

Posted on 4 October 2011 by Katie

On Tuesday 1 November 2011, the Library will be holding its second masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. Prof. David McKitterick, Librarian at Trinity […]

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Events, Incunabula

Incunabula lecture

Posted on 10 May 2011 by Ed

On 7 June the incunabulist Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will give a masterclass at Cambridge University Library on collation and composition in […]

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Events, Incunabula, Rare Books

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