Samuel Sandars – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Shakespeare’s First Folio conserved

Posted on 13 January 2026 by Special Collections

The University Library is very lucky to have copies of all four Shakespeare folios printed in the seventeenth century (1623, 1632, 1664 & 1685). The […]

Collection Care, Conservation, Rare Books, Special Collections

Reformation lives

Posted on 1 November 2016 by Liam Sims

One of the great joys of working with special collections in an historic library like the UL is the discovery (or re-discovery, with each new […]

Anniversaries, Bible Society, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

How (and when) to visit the Fitzwilliam museum…in the 1850s.

Posted on 26 February 2016 by Sophie Defrance

Many of you will have seen that the Fitzwilliam museum turned 200 earlier this month. How would visitors born, like the museum, 200 years ago, […]

Rare Books, Special Collections

Sandars Lectures 2013-14: Professor Nigel Morgan

Posted on 3 February 2014 by Suzanne Paul

The Sandars lectures for this year will be given by Professor Nigel Morgan, Emeritus Honorary Professor of the History of Art in the University of […]

Collectors and collecting, Events, Manuscripts, Special Collections

A Cistercian Missal in Cambridge University Library

Posted on 21 October 2011 by Special Collections

An article by Michael Carter on the Cambridge University Library copy of a Missal printed by Thielman Kerver in Paris, 1515 for the Cistercian rite […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Rare Books