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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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This is so fun! A. F. Scholfield (presumably on the right) became University Librarian @theul.bsky.social in 1923...
Wrap up warm. This drawing (GOW/A/2/2), by J. D. Beazley of himself, A. S. F. Gow, and A. F. Scholfield, Paris, 1912, is part of a new display in the Wren library looking at the correspondence of Trinity Fellow, A.S.F Gow.
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#exhibition
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#archive
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is so fun! A. F. Scholfield (presumably on the right) became University Librarian @theul.bsky.social in 1923...
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Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Write an essay to win £500 📝
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
The Gordon Duff Prize is now accepting proposals on the science of books and manuscripts and the arts relating to them.
Find out more and how to enter: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
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#OnThisDay in 1600, Charles I was born.
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#OnThisDay in 1600, Charles I was born.
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
This highly symbolic image of Charles holding the martyr’s crown of thorns is the frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (The Royal Portrait). Published soon after his execution in 1649, it claimed to be Charles's spiritual autobiography.
London: 1649 – CCD.8.9
Excellent new guest blog post from @jwscolley.bsky.social on "A Lost Ballad Found: Rediscovering a Jephthah Ballad in the Norton Collection". Read all about it here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31034
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Excellent new guest blog post from @jwscolley.bsky.social on "A Lost Ballad Found: Rediscovering a Jephthah Ballad in the Norton Collection". Read all about it here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31034
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A ghoulish end to Adam Moore’s ‘Bread for the poor: and advancement of the English nation promised by enclosure’ (London, 1653). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.7.60.216(8). #mementomori
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A ghoulish end to Adam Moore’s ‘Bread for the poor: and advancement of the English nation promised by enclosure’ (London, 1653). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.7.60.216(8). #mementomori
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In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae, In Flanders' Field.
Image: Fuch's herbal (Sel.2.81)
#ArmisticeDay #RemembranceDay
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Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
One of our favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints with cats!
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
One of our favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints with cats!
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A week to go until the Sandars Lectures 2025 📚
Join us in celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, on 11 & 12 November 2025, 5-6pm. Online spaces still available.
Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
Join us in celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, on 11 & 12 November 2025, 5-6pm. Online spaces still available.
Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A week to go until the Sandars Lectures 2025 📚
Join us in celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, on 11 & 12 November 2025, 5-6pm. Online spaces still available.
Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
Join us in celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, on 11 & 12 November 2025, 5-6pm. Online spaces still available.
Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
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Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
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Pretty stonking illumination in this copy of Antonio Gazio’s ‘De conservatione sanitatis’ (Venice, 1491), executed in Padua for the Sforza family soon after publication. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.45[1506].
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pretty stonking illumination in this copy of Antonio Gazio’s ‘De conservatione sanitatis’ (Venice, 1491), executed in Padua for the Sforza family soon after publication. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.45[1506].
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In the reading room today: super 1903 book if activities for girls in which Chapter 1 is building things with a hammer and a saw. There's also making fireworks using the metal from your stays. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1903.7. 554
October 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In the reading room today: super 1903 book if activities for girls in which Chapter 1 is building things with a hammer and a saw. There's also making fireworks using the metal from your stays. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1903.7. 554
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Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Celebrating archival collections in Cambridge and beyond, join us for the 2025 Sandars Lecture Series by Joan Winterkorn MBE.
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
11 & 12 November, 5-6pm.
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs
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Good sleeve on this early manicule. In a commentary on Aristotle, Porphyrius & Boethius, printed at #Venice in 1496. At @theulspeccoll.bsky.social since 1664, part of the vast collection of Richard Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge. CUL Inc.3.B.3.138[1836].
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Good sleeve on this early manicule. In a commentary on Aristotle, Porphyrius & Boethius, printed at #Venice in 1496. At @theulspeccoll.bsky.social since 1664, part of the vast collection of Richard Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge. CUL Inc.3.B.3.138[1836].
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Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
![Montage showing coloured illustrations of moths and the envelope in which they’re kept. There is blue handwriting on the envelope, which might read: ‘Frohawk’s drawings [o]f Melan[istic] Leps’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spsmiagur74jvkmhduvkmki6/bafkreif2nqrqp7234ghv6gzn7avjaq5qdirknvp6su4octwkbkp5mjd6ry@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Excited to find drawings of moths by FW Frohawk (1861-1946) in the archive of biologist William Bateson @theul.bsky.social.
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
They’re catalogued as ‘27 drawings of Milan Leps’, but think this should be ‘Melan[istic] Leps’? Do they look right for showing melanism, #TeamMoth? MS Add. 8634/J.3 #EntHist
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St Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, holding onto a chunky tome (complete with metal bosses) for dear life. In a copy of his works, printed at #Venice in 1471 by Wendelin of Speyer, one of a pair of German brothers. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.1b[1331].
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
St Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, holding onto a chunky tome (complete with metal bosses) for dear life. In a copy of his works, printed at #Venice in 1471 by Wendelin of Speyer, one of a pair of German brothers. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.1b[1331].
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Everyone loves a ‘Bad Lad’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1930.7.2076.
September 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Everyone loves a ‘Bad Lad’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1930.7.2076.
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Some very pointy manicules in this copy of the works of Juvenal, printed at #Venice by Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, in 1486. Love the little red sleeves! Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1934 by Stephen Gaselee. CUL Inc.3.B.3.47b[3983].
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Some very pointy manicules in this copy of the works of Juvenal, printed at #Venice by Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, in 1486. Love the little red sleeves! Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1934 by Stephen Gaselee. CUL Inc.3.B.3.47b[3983].
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In the reading room today: the absolutely wonderful Light Car magazine from 1934. #TrafficLight #Aeroplane #GuildfordBypass @theulspeccoll.bsky.social L429:8.b.20
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In the reading room today: the absolutely wonderful Light Car magazine from 1934. #TrafficLight #Aeroplane #GuildfordBypass @theulspeccoll.bsky.social L429:8.b.20
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Archbishop Laud was born #OTD in 1573. This copy of Lorenzo Traversagni’s ‘Margarita Eloquentiæ’ (St Albans, 1480), was almost certainly in his personal library& went to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk after his death. It was ejected as a duplicate in 1862 & is now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.5.J.4.1[3632].
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Archbishop Laud was born #OTD in 1573. This copy of Lorenzo Traversagni’s ‘Margarita Eloquentiæ’ (St Albans, 1480), was almost certainly in his personal library& went to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk after his death. It was ejected as a duplicate in 1862 & is now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.5.J.4.1[3632].
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Some great side-eye from this French Angel spotted yesterday in a copy of the ‘Via recta et antiqua’ of Jonas, the ninth-century Bishop of Orléans. Printed at Douai in 1645 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social U*.8.149(G).
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Some great side-eye from this French Angel spotted yesterday in a copy of the ‘Via recta et antiqua’ of Jonas, the ninth-century Bishop of Orléans. Printed at Douai in 1645 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social U*.8.149(G).
Join us for this free research talk at Cambridge University Library!
Burned, Cut, Faded, but not Lost
Join us for a free talk delving into the discoveries Dr Clarck Drieshen has made whilst researching our Middle English manuscripts.
📅22 October 2025, 5-6.30pm at Cambridge University Library
To book: https://loom.ly/X1bQkAk
Join us for a free talk delving into the discoveries Dr Clarck Drieshen has made whilst researching our Middle English manuscripts.
📅22 October 2025, 5-6.30pm at Cambridge University Library
To book: https://loom.ly/X1bQkAk
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Join us for this free research talk at Cambridge University Library!
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LOVE the little face in the border here, not to mention the stonking great golden initial. In Cicero’s Epistolæ ad Familiares printed ON VELLUM at #Venice by the great Nicolaus Jenson in 1471. Came to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1715 from the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely. Inc.3.B.3.2[1347]
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
LOVE the little face in the border here, not to mention the stonking great golden initial. In Cicero’s Epistolæ ad Familiares printed ON VELLUM at #Venice by the great Nicolaus Jenson in 1471. Came to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1715 from the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely. Inc.3.B.3.2[1347]
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A bookish bookplate by wood engraver Reynolds Stone (1909-79), for the Francis Holland School in Sloane Square. Collected by Will Carter (of the Rampant Lions Press) and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Add. 9830/A/5.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A bookish bookplate by wood engraver Reynolds Stone (1909-79), for the Francis Holland School in Sloane Square. Collected by Will Carter (of the Rampant Lions Press) and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Add. 9830/A/5.