Excitement about royal Tudor England is everywhere in anticipation of the televised adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies beginning this week on the BBC . Here in the Wren Library we have a number of manuscripts which belonged to King Henry VIII. His libraries, housed in several …
Happy New Year! This year we will be featuring the Labours of the Months from a few of our medieval Books of Hours at the beginning of each month. Books of Hours were popular devotional texts in the middle ages. That is, they were produced for the laity rather than monastics or clergy and as …
The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Worcester Cathedral Library contains nearly 300 medieval manuscripts, 5500 printed books, and 20,000 archival documents. The aim of this blog is to open up the fascinating collection of a Medieval English Cathedral to the wider world.
News from the Peterhouse Perne and Ward Libraries
Erik Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts
Treasures from the Collection
Special Collections of King's College, Cambridge
One of Cambridge's hidden gems
Treasures from the Collection
Trinity College Library, Cambridge 