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Ramadan is approaching! This fragment is from an Abbasid Qur’an manuscript (MS Add.1111), likely written in the 9th or 10th century CE. ⬇️ #Ramadan #Quran #IslamicManuscripts #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

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Our photographer Raffaella Losito is hard at work capturing promotional images for the upcoming #CuriousCures exhibition at the UL! More information on the new exhibition: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncu... Photos © Raffaella Losito © Blazej Mikula

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A nice duck egg blue 18th-century ribbon bookmark bound in this copy of Moses Harris’s ‘The Aurelian: or, natural history of English insects; namely, moths and butterflies. Together with the plants on which they feed’ (London, 1766 [1773]). MH.8.13 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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Fuzzy @theul.bsky.social fox 🦊

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Excited to be looking at Maria Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium’ (1705) for events around the launch of the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities initiative. But also freaking out in case I turn to the page with the giant spiders. MH.2.22 @theul.bsky.social

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There are lots of great things about @theul.bsky.social but I often think the single best one is the way the lights shine through the windows when it’s getting dark!

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There are only two days left to see ENDLESS STORIES at the UL! 📍 Cambridge University Library until 22 February 2025 ⏰ Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm & Saturdays 9am – 4:30pm 🎟️Tickets are completely FREE and are available to book now: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/endlessstories

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Vol. I of William Curtis’s ‘Flora Londinensis’ (1777) with bonus pressed plant specimen. CCF.47.47 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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#OnThisDay in 1516, Mary I was born. Was she really the bloodthirsty queen of popular myth? @lucyworsley.bsky.social recently visited the UL to consult our copy of “Historia ecclesiastica” by Pedro de Ribadeneyra, a Spanish priest who met Mary and gives a different account. CUL F158.e.8.6 (1588)

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Data Analyst position @theul.bsky.social responsible for 'collecting, analysing, and presenting a wide range of data, including operational, financial, collections, publishing, and qualitative user research data'. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX212/d...

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Just took some students to the Genizah Research Unit at @theul.bsky.social where Ben Outhwaite gave a captivating introduction to this fascinating collection.

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Hurry! There's only one week left to see ENDLESS STORIES at the UL! 📍 Cambridge University Library until 22 February 2025 ⏰ Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm & Saturdays 9am – 4:30pm 🎟️Tickets are completely FREE and are available to book now: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/endlessstories

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So pleased I finally made it to the fantastic Endless Stories exhibition at Cambridge UL today. Slightly off topic but - aside from a couple of Bedwell MSS - this doodle study of a cat was a real highlight…

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At next week’s Really Popular Book Club @lejhouston.bsky.social will be chatting about Torrey Peters’ incredible ‘Detransition Baby’. There will be spoilers! (I want to know what everyone else thinks about the ending…) Free, online, open to all, @theul.bsky.social www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really...

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Love knows no bounds...or species...? Happy Valentine's Day from the world of medieval romance! Images are from CUL MS Ff.1.27, a miscellany of texts originating at the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. See it in the Cambridge Digital Library: loom.ly/joTgwvE. #MedievalMemes

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We are delighted to announce that Clare Hall is launching an Entrepreneurship Prize of £5000 to support budding entrepreneurs from within the College community. The application form, with application scope and details, is available on our website: www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/.../clare-ha...

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Oh my, an early modern hoverfly. From Eleazar Albin’s ‘A natural history of English insects’ (London, 1720). Lib.4.72.4 @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 💚

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Recently joined #CambridgeUniversityLibrary, or thinking about joining? Join us for a taster tour with our friendly library staff, who will introduce you to the University Library building and the incredible resources available here.  Find out more: loom.ly/U71d7Z4

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Always believe in your soul. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold 📷 #photography @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

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We've really enjoyed all the chocolate chat. Our Crunchie wrapper was stashed behind some books in the late 1960s. It fell down the back of the shelves and was trapped under the bookshelf, meaning it could stay hidden for over 50 years!

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Our core digital services are fully operational again! Apollo (the University’s institutional repository), the Cambridge Digital Library and ArchiveSearch (our archive management system) are all functioning normally. Thank you for your patience.

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Detail of a pretty floral cloth binding for ‘Chansons de France pour les petits français / avec accompagnements de J.B. Weckerlin. Illustrations par M.B. de Monvel’ (Paris, [1901]). Waddleton.c.4.63 @theul.bsky.social

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Ok, it’s time to ‘fess up. Who ate a Fry’s Crunchie bar in the UL and hid the wrapper behind some books? Mark in our facilities team got a surprise when he unearthed this chocolate relic recently. Who can help us date it? #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #Cambridge

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It’s #LGBTQHistoryMonth and on 25th Feb we’ve got @lejhouston.bsky.social coming to the Really Popular Book Club to talk about Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters. Free, online, open to all - come and join us @theul.bsky.social www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really... #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25

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🏳️‍🌈We're flying the flag for LGBT+ History Month at the UL! This month, our Really Popular Book Club choice is 'Detransition, Baby' by Torrey Peters, the first novel by an openly trans author to be nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. 🔗Book now: loom.ly/HAHWwM8

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What do you love about Cambridge University Library? In honour of Valentine’s day, we’ve set up some letter-style feedback forms and a pink post box, which can be found in the catalogue hall on the first floor. Please tell us all your secrets! 💘

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#ManuscriptMonday with details of manuscripts on display at the Raqqada Museum in Kairouan. So much blue, but gold in abundance too. #IslamicManuscripts #QuranManuscripts #Parchment

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Don't worry if you missed it, the recording of the talk by Dr Marie Puren, Liberation Collection Visiting Scholar on 'The New Editorial and Literary Landscape in Post-War France 1944-1946' is now available to watch: loom.ly/0Tk8Jyk

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If you are having trouble accessing our catalogues, then please contact [email protected] and we may be able to send you a catalogue in an alternative format. If you have booked a space in our reading room, you are welcome to consult our paper catalogues as usual.

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It has to be @theul.bsky.social. I've done much of my best work there.

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Pulp Fiction. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms 📷 #photography @theul.bsky.social

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Detail from my most recent painting. Sakura pens & watercolour on Fabriano Studio Watercolour. I owe much to Damien Kempf's book Medieval Monsters as well as the @theul.bsky.social 's digitisation of Ortus Sanitatis as reference. #art #artsky #bskyart #illustration #medieval #medievalsky

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We are aware that some digital services at Cambridge University Libraries are currently unavailable. We are working to restore access. Thank you for your patience and we apologise for the disruption.

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