Cambridge UL Special Collections

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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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📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles 
Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow.
17 & 18 November 2026
5-6pm
In-person at Robinson College & online
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Absolutely LOVE the floral initials in this copy of the works of Apuleius, one of the first books printed at Rome (by Sweynheym & Pannartz) in 1469. The initials apparently added in France, perhaps in the 1480s or 90s. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.2.1[1124].

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✒️ "Written & Edited by his Wife"
Join us for a research talk by Dr Grace Exley who will explore how women’s hands have shaped our impression of some of the most famous scientists of the nineteenth century.
21 Oct, 5-6.30pm
Cambridge University Library
Book your FREE ticket https://loom.ly/KpzUmgM

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Not just supporting research — but leading it.
Explore the poster display in our Catalogue Hall showcasing research projects led by our staff. Up now till 15 Sept 2026.
Keep up-to-date with our research, join the University Library Research Institute mailing list: https://loom.ly/nqIpNxI

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A pleasingly bookish (and quite small) bookplate for one Thomas Robinson, Fellow of Merton College Oxford. Engraved by James Hulett no later than 1771. In a copy of Gabriel Vásquez’s commentary on Aquinas (Lyon, 1620). Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Peterborough.Q.5.9.

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Congratulations to Senior Building Services Technician Peter Matlock on an incredible 40 years at Cambridge University Library!

Peter retires this month and leaves behind a fantastic legacy of hard work and dedication.

Watch his Day in the Life video: https://loom.ly/BGBgots

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‘To the generous reader’ in John Scott’s ‘Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge’ (c. 1620), presumably by Scott himself, an heraldic painter & member of Clare College. This copy now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Gg.5.21.