Cambridge Bibliophiles
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Between the pages and dusty shelves you'll find us: the book-lovers, book-collectors, book-guardians, book-users and bibliophiles of the University of Cambridge
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#Bibliophiles Alert!
We will be hosting our Annual Garden Party
on Saturday 3rd June from 5 -7.30pm in Darwin College!
We will be meeting in the Bradfield Room. Please bring a book to show and tell its story!
Always wanted to dreamt about becoming a #bookseller of fine books?
Join us tomorrow evening at 8.45pm for our guest speaker Tom Lintern-Mole
who will speak about
'Selling #antiquarian books as an #undergraduate and beyond'
please rsvp with our secretary!
Ever wanted to take a stroll through #Cambridge to get a peak into its early modern #libraries ?
Join our walking tour tomorrow at 10.30am!
message our secretary if you would like to attend there are still some places available!
Everyone take a break from what you're doing and have a look at these fascinating illustrations in MS 190/223!
We are very excited to be part of the #CuriousCures project, and to be able to make our manuscripts visible to a wider audience through it.
Cambridge Bibliophiles Cambridge University Library Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl Caius College Library CambridgeDigitalLib I should also thank Tuija Ainonen for the description of the manuscript, and Taylor McCall
who kindly wrote the introduction! The diagrams shown here bear remarkable resemblance to those in an anatomical treatise by Mansur ibn-Ilyas exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/linesofthought…
Cambridge Bibliophiles Cambridge University Library Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl My pleasure! Thanks are due to Caius College Library, who are collaborating with Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl on the #CuriousCures project, and whose manuscript this is (MS 190/223). Head over to CambridgeDigitalLib if you want to see more! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GONVIL…
Getting a close-up look at a very special 13th century #medieval medical #manuscript of the
#CuriousCures project with Dr James Freeman
at the Cambridge University Library Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl
#Bibliophiles
Look at these illustrations!