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Tag: Rare Books

Orchard plan from Laurence 1717

Harvesting Resources – Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley: sources at the UL. Guest post by Jonathan Spain

Posted on 16 December 2021 by Anne Taylor

Researchers and authors will use a variety of resources and consult items across the University Library collections and beyond. Although library and archive staff may […]

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Map Department, Maps, Rare Books, Special Collections

Solomon Negri and the ‘Marvels of Creation’

Posted on 20 February 2017 by Catherine Ansorge

Displayed in the ‘Curious objects’ exhibition is one of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection. It is a copy of the Persian […]

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Exhibitions, Library history, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

A springtime post

Posted on 24 March 2016 by Sophie Defrance

To celebrate spring, and the upcoming holidays, here are a few illustrations of spring flowers from our Rare Books collections.       Herbarum imagines […]

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Rare Books

Recent Acquisitions: Printed Books

Posted on 2 December 2014 by Sophie Defrance

A previous post about the current exhibition in the entrance hall, Scribes and Printers, features recent acquisitions by the Department of Manuscripts. This post, in […]

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Exhibitions, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

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