Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
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Our latest blog - by our Conservator Sharon Catlin - is all about rehousing unusual objects! Have a read: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31641
Cambridge UL Special Collections
Did you know that Cambridge University had a farm? Its archive is held @theul.bsky.social and the University Archivist explores its history in our latest blog! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31573
Our latest blog is a guest post by Linda van Rheinberg, a student at Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf) who spent time examining medieval manuscripts @theul.bsky.social with her fellow students earlier this year. Read all about it here! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31935
The doggy arms of the Dutch nobleman, ornithologist, palaeontologist & President of the Académie royale de Belgique, Bernard Aimé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (1808-74). On a copy of Albertus Magnus’s ‘De animalibus’ (Mantua, 1479). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.B.18.4[2152].
The arms of the Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736) on copy of Montaigne’s Essais (Paris, 1725). She was god-daughter of the great bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert & her own library numbered some 18,000 volumes (dispersed at auction in 1737). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (Montaigne.2.4.14-16). (1/2)
Cambridge UL Special Collections
Industrial action at the University of Cambridge is taking place on Wed, Thurs & Fri this week (13, 14, 15 May).
We aim to maintain services during the strikes and minimise disruption to study wherever possible, however changes may be necessary at short notice.
More info: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk.
Angry bird hanging out in the margins of this 1480 Rome-printed breviary. Quack!
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.6. B.2.39[1321] #InTheReadingRoomToday
Cambridge University Librarian Francis Jenkinson copying the great collector Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) - whose arms are found on the front cover - by adding his date of acquisition under Wodhull’s. In a book sale catalogue printed at Dordrecht in 1696. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Hhh.1135.
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The arms of John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. In his copy of a legal work by Bartolo of Sassoferrato, printed at #Venice by Vindelinus de Spira in 1471. Presented to the Royal Society by the Duke of Norfolk in 1667, later deaccessioned. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.1.B.3.1b[3730].
