Cambridge University Library
The Great Collections
- Editor: Peter Fox, Selwyn College, Cambridge
- Date Published: August 1998
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521626477
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Cambridge University Library is one of the world's great research libraries. This book is a celebration of the treasures of the library from the perspective of a group of eminent scholars who actively use the collections for research. Chapters have been selected to illustrate the vast range of the Library's collections: from the fifth-century Codex Bezae to the archives of contemporary writers and politicians; from medieval manuscripts to the letters of Charles Darwin; on history, theology, politics, sociology, art history, biology, agriculture, mathematics, and astronomy. Extensively illustrated with over 200 photographs, many of them in colour and published for the first time, Cambridge University Library: The Great Collections offers a unique perspective on a remarkable institution.
Read more- Eminent scholars writing on collections at Cambridge University Library
- Extensively illustrated with over 200 photographs, some published for the first time
- Covers entire range of library's holdings, from earliest manuscripts to contemporary writers and politicians
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'The book is splendidly produced. It is a credit to Cambridge University Press and is embellished with 241 illustrations, sixty-six of them in full colour.' David Vaisey, The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: August 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521626477
- length: 237 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 190 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.85kg
- contains: 152 b/w illus. 89 colour illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Introduction Peter Fox
1. History of the library David McKitterick
2. The Codex Bezae David Parker
3. Illuminated medieval manuscripts George Henderson
4. The Genizah fragments: a unique archive Stefan C. Reif
5. Printed Books 1450–1550 Dennis E. Rhodes
6. The Royal Library: John Moore and his books Jayne Ringrose
7. The voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France Michael Twyman
8. Agriculture, food, and famine in Japan Peter Kornicki
9. The Darwin papers Frederick Burkhardt
10. The Acton library Owen Chadwick
11. The Stefan Heym archive Peter Hutchinson
12. The Royal Commonwealth Society John M. Mackenzie
13. But scientists are human: some insights into the progress of science Alan Cook
14. The University archives (what are they, anyway?) Elisabeth Leedham-Green
15. The University Library and its buildings Christopher Brooke.
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