Spain – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Max Aub: a Spanish intellectual in Mexico

Posted on 30 May 2019 by Sonia Morcillo-Garcia

Researchers of the life and work of Max Aub (Paris, 1903 – Mexico City, 1972) will be pleased to hear about a recent donation from […]

Hispanic, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Castles in the air: two works of Renaissance and Baroque Iberian poetry

Posted on 18 March 2016 by Sophie Defrance

Thanks to a recommendation of Dr Rodrigo Cacho, Reader in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies, the Rare Books department of Cambridge University Library has […]

Collectors and collecting, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections

Rare Spanish plays on display

Posted on 24 October 2013 by Emily Dourish

The Library has recently acquired a remarkable collection of 1,852 comedias sueltas; these are short plays printed in Spain between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century, […]

Exhibitions, Hispanic, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Cambridge Bibliographical Society talk, 15 May 2013

Posted on 11 May 2013 by Special Collections

Professor Alison Sinclair will give a paper on ‘Today we shall go slumming: telling tales in the University Library´s Spanish sueltos collection’. The talk will […]

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Events

Read all about it!

Posted on 30 April 2013 by Emily Dourish

Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions