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Cambridge University Library features in Episode 2 of Lucy Worsley Investigates (Series 2) on BBC Two at 9pm this Friday! In this episode, Lucy Worsley investigates the Gunpowder Plot. The full series is available to stream now on the BBC iPlayer : loom.ly/jJZZokI

Come work with us! There’s still time to apply for the two-year Munby Fellowship for a Research Associate in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities, a collaboration between Cambridge University Library and Cambridge Collections Connections Communities: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49338/ Closing: 17 Jan

Are you a current student Cambridge University and a book collector? Enter the Rose Book Collecting prize! Your collection doesn't have to be huge or worth £££ - just interesting. Closing date of 7 February. Good luck!

Our latest blog explores a 1930s poster found in a shed (and now @theul), telling the story of a Suffolk village's engagement with the League of Nations. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=29776

#OnThisDay 170 years ago, the first women were granted admission to the University Library as readers. Constantia Ann Ellicott, pictured here, was one of them. To find out more, head to the latest Cambridge UL Special Collections blog post: loom.ly/GTVcMbY

This #IWD let’s talk about Christine de Pizan. Christine de Pizan is notable for being the first professional writer in France. In an age where misogyny was the norm, she argued that women deserved protection and respect, plus access to education and better legal representation.

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

Newnham College 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

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

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

Listen Now 📻🎤 'Biblical Typology' on BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' with the wonderful Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Peterhouse Cambridge Cambridge University), and me (Cambridge UL Special Collections Cambridge University Library) Plus a bonus Easter thread of typology....🧵🐰🌷 tinyurl.com/2zchj3vy

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

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 The Bibliographical Society in 1948 'for distinguished services to bibliography'. It carries images of a scribe & a printing press.

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. Cambridge UL Special Collections T*.4.51(D).

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

Beautiful botanical details inside & out in this recent acquisition from Bernard Quaritch Ltd: 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

In our latest blog, Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis 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

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

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

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.