A remarkable collector
The North Front corridor cases are currently displaying 16 volumes from a truly remarkable set of facsimiles, given to the Library in 2011 by Darko and Petra […]
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Parisian Nights
Fragments from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection were on the move last week, heading to an exhibition on The thousand and one nights at the Institut […]
Continue reading »The death of a prince: four hundred years on
A national outpouring of grief over the death of a member of the royal family has often in recent times been portrayed and criticised in […]
Continue reading »Showing Their Hands
Dawson Turner, the banker, antiquary, and leading light of autograph collectors in the early nineteenth century, claimed that he had ‘never met with the man […]
Continue reading »Rousseau’s Montaigne in Paris
Cambridge University Library’s copy of Montaigne’s Essais (Paris, 1652), formerly owned and annotated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), currently features in a major exhibition at the […]
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Spot the Difference!
A ‘guest blog’ by David Langley In 2010 the Library staged a fascinating exhibition – Under Covers: Documenting Spies – from its own collections and […]
Continue reading »A Soviet Design for Life
The University Library is delighted to launch our latest major exhibition, opening to the public today. A Soviet Design for Life: The Catherine Cooke Collection […]
Continue reading »‘Shelf Lives’ round-up
As the ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition draws to a close (Sat 16 June is the last day), here’s a round-up of more posts on the theme […]
Continue reading »Rousseau’s tercentenary
As well as certain other events this year, 2012 marks three hundred years since the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, composer, educational theorist and inventor […]
Continue reading »Matthew Parker as collector: the ones that got away I
There are still a couple of weeks left to see the ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition at the University Library, which closes on 16 June. And in […]
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