Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts
27 March 2019Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.
‘A sunlit picture of hell’: Sassoon’s war diaries go online for first time
01 August 2014Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War diaries – some bearing traces of mud from the Somme – are among 4,100 pages from his personal archive being made freely available online from today, almost 100 years since Britain declared war on Germany.
From text to texting: 10th century Greek manuscript is brought into the digital age
26 March 2014A tenth century Greek manuscript, one of the latest additions to the Digital Library, shows how the transmission and reinterpretation of written knowledge over the centuries still continues in today’s digital age.
Illuminating Cambridge worldwide
07 March 2014Arts Council England grants £87,582 to create online digital archive of Fitzwilliam Museum manuscripts.
Ten Commandments go digital
12 December 2012Cambridge University Library is to release digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world - following on from last year’s release of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts and notebooks.
Secrets of the plant kingdom uncovered after over a century in storage
26 September 2012The relocation of the Herbarium’s one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University’s state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their collection centuries ago.
Cambridge gives Newton papers to the world
12 December 2011Isaac Newton’s annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University Library.
‘Picture This #10’ – The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines, University Library
16 November 2011The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines is the oldest dated and illustrated Sanskrit manuscript known worldwide.
A scriptorium of commonplace books
01 May 2010A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
Treasures of the genizah
01 September 2009How did an Egyptian storeroom come to hold a thousand years worth of manuscript fragments and why are they one of the greatest literary treasures ever found?
