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Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more.

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Jul 8

Thanks to @OrkneyLibrary we are aware that today is #CowAppreciationDay! Our collection includes this glorious early twentieth-century book of children's poetry (marketed as 'untearable'), entitled simply 'MOO COWS'. @theUL 1907.11.60. 🐮

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Thanks to @OrkneyLibrary we are aware that today is #CowAppreciationDay! Our collection includes this glorious early twentieth-century book of children's poetry (marketed as 'untearable'), entitled simply 'MOO COWS'. @theUL 1907.11.60. 🐮

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Jul 8

Our latest blog, by Munby Fellow Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, focuses on nineteenth-century efforts to translate the Bible into Nahuatl (or Mexican). Read it here! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30409

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Our latest blog, by Munby Fellow Dr Joshua Fitzgerald, focuses on nineteenth-century efforts to translate the Bible into Nahuatl (or Mexican). Read it here! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30409

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Jun 25

Our latest blog post is by Beckett Thornber (MA Conservation Studies student @westdeancollege) who has constructed a model of a late medieval folded manuscript, inspired by an example in our Curious Cures exhibition on medieval medicine! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30259&previ…

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Our latest blog post is by Beckett Thornber (MA Conservation Studies student @westdeancollege) who has constructed a model of a late medieval folded manuscript, inspired by an example in our Curious Cures exhibition on medieval medicine!
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30259&amp;previ…

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Jun 17

Mumtaz Mahal, empress consort of the Mughal Empire, died #OTD in 1631. This little pamphlet (costing sixpence) was issued in 1823 to coincide with the display in London of an ivory model of the Taj Mahal, her funerary monument. @theulspeccoll Pam.5.82.155.

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Mumtaz Mahal, empress consort of the Mughal Empire, died #OTD in 1631. This little pamphlet (costing sixpence) was issued in 1823 to coincide with the display in London of an ivory model of the Taj Mahal, her funerary monument. @theulspeccoll Pam.5.82.155.

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 30

Curiously, Joan of Arc & Voltaire both died #OTD (1431 & 1778). Voltaire composed La Pucelle d'Orleans (the Maid of Orleans) to satirise the not yet canonised Joan & its bawdy content saw it banned across Europe. This early edition (1762) is illustrated by Gravelot. Syn.6.76.5.

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Curiously, Joan of Arc &amp; Voltaire both died #OTD (1431 &amp; 1778). Voltaire composed La Pucelle d'Orleans (the Maid of Orleans) to satirise the not yet canonised Joan &amp; its bawdy content saw it banned across Europe. This early edition (1762) is illustrated by Gravelot. Syn.6.76.5.

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 29

It's Ascension Day, commemorating the Christian belief of the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven. Our MS Dd.4.17, a 14th-century Book of Hours probably made in the East Midlands, has a great image of Jesus' feet about to disappear into a cloud. #ascensionday

theULSpecColl's tweet image. It's Ascension Day, commemorating the Christian belief of the bodily ascension of Jesus into heaven. Our MS Dd.4.17, a 14th-century Book of Hours probably made in the East Midlands, has a great image of Jesus' feet about to disappear into a cloud. #ascensionday

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 28

Lovely visit yesterday from a group of Australian Jane Austen enthusiasts, who enjoyed seeing a variety of first editions, a book from Jane's own library, and a letter in her own hand. Plus, of course, 'Jane Austen in Australia'! #janeausten

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Lovely visit yesterday from a group of Australian Jane Austen enthusiasts, who enjoyed seeing a variety of first editions, a book from Jane's own library, and a letter in her own hand. Plus, of course, 'Jane Austen in Australia'! #janeausten

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 28

In our latest blog, @ciditcharlotte talks about her engagement with a fifteenth-century manuscript of Christine de Pizan, now at Newnham College & recently digitised. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30146

theULSpecColl's tweet image. In our latest blog, @ciditcharlotte talks about her engagement with a fifteenth-century manuscript of Christine de Pizan, now at Newnham College &amp; recently digitised. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30146

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 26

Beautiful botanical details inside & out in this recent acquisition from @Quaritch: Henrietta Moriarty's 'Viridarium: coloured plates of greenhouse plants' (London 1806), produced in part to free her from destitution after the early death of her dissolute husband. UL 8000.d.1621

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Beautiful botanical details inside &amp; out in this recent acquisition from @Quaritch: Henrietta Moriarty's 'Viridarium: coloured plates of greenhouse plants' (London 1806), produced in part to free her from destitution after the early death of her dissolute husband. UL 8000.d.1621

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 9

The first #Pope Leo, known as Leo the Great, who reigned 440-461 & was the first to be buried in St Peter's Basilica. This copy of his sermons (#Venice, 1482) carries this portrait by the Pico Master, appropriately within an initial L for Laudem. CUL Inc.3.B.3.43[1499]. #popeleo

theULSpecColl's tweet image. The first #Pope Leo, known as Leo the Great, who reigned 440-461 &amp; was the first to be buried in St Peter's Basilica. This copy of his sermons (#Venice, 1482) carries this portrait by the Pico Master, appropriately within an initial L for Laudem. CUL Inc.3.B.3.43[1499]. #popeleo

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Cambridge University Library@theUL · May 7

The Conclave to elect the 267th Pope begins today. This broadside, probably printed in Venice, shows plans for getting food and drink to cardinals in a Papal #Conclave in 1605. The food was checked for hidden messages and the door was guarded. @theulspeccoll T*.4.51(D).

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · May 6

The typographer Stanley Morison was born #OTD in 1889. We are lucky to look after his personal library & archive, including the gold medal he was awarded by @BibSoc in 1948 'for distinguished services to bibliography'. It carries images of a scribe & a printing press.

theULSpecColl's tweet image. The typographer Stanley Morison was born #OTD in 1889. We are lucky to look after his personal library &amp; archive, including the gold medal he was awarded by @BibSoc in 1948 'for distinguished services to bibliography'. It carries images of a scribe &amp; a printing press.

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Apr 17

So, it's Elizabethan England, and you need to know how to cure STDs, extract bullets, and live to be a hundred? Well, we have got the manuscript for you. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29988

theULSpecColl's tweet image. So, it's Elizabethan England, and you need to know how to cure STDs, extract bullets, and live to be a hundred? Well, we have got the manuscript for you. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost:

specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29988

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Harry Spillane@SpillaneHarry · Apr 17

Listen Now 📻🎤 'Biblical Typology' on BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' with the wonderful @MiriERubin (@QMUL) and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (@Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni), and me (@theULSpecColl @theUL) Plus a bonus Easter thread of typology....🧵🐰🌷 tinyurl.com/2zchj3vy

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Apr 1

Our latest blog explores some late-Victorian accounts of boating, part of the @Cambridge_Uni Cruising Club archives. Some of the accounts are beautifully illuminated, like medieval manuscripts! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29965

theULSpecColl's tweet image. Our latest blog explores some late-Victorian accounts of boating, part of the @Cambridge_Uni Cruising Club archives. Some of the accounts are beautifully illuminated, like medieval manuscripts! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29965

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Cambridge UL Special Collections@theULSpecColl · Mar 27

What links Bibles and chocolate? Victorian book collector Francis Fry, of course! Our Munby Fellow Dr Harry Spillane (@SpillaneHarry) has blogged about his research into Fry's huge collection of Bibles, now housed @theUL. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29942

theULSpecColl's tweet image. What links Bibles and chocolate? Victorian book collector Francis Fry, of course! Our Munby Fellow Dr Harry Spillane (@SpillaneHarry) has blogged about his research into Fry's huge collection of Bibles, now housed @theUL.

specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29942

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Cambridge University Library@theUL · Mar 8

Excitingly, our Cultural Heritage Imaging Unit (CHIL) has recently digitised @Newnham_College's manuscript copy of Christine's Epistre Othea (Othea’s Letter). It’s now available to view in all its glory on the Cambridge Digital Library: loom.ly/o32sOVM

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Cambridge University Library@theUL · Mar 8

The entry in the Cambridge University Digital Library has an introduction co-authored by the UL’s Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, a leading specialist on Christine de Pizan: loom.ly/o32sOVM

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