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Blow me down with a shooting star! 💫 ✨ 🌟 🤩
A rare manuscript copy of 天元玉曆祥異賦 (The Tianyuan Jade Calendar in Verse Prose on the Auspicious and Unusual Signs). 10 vols with oodles of stunning hand coloured illustrations on this work of Chinese #astrology to explore!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FH-0...
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Will you be doing the Danse Macabre tonight or jumping on your steed to run and hide under the duvet? #Halloween
1) The Dance of Death, Nuremberg Chronicle (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-INC-...)
2) The Cambridge Bestiary (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...)
😱 💀 👻 🧙‍♀️ 😬 ☠️ 🙈
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
...And you thought you were stretched too thin!
😬
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Q: When is it a good thing that life is dragon you round in circles?
A: When it's these dragons doing the dragin!
Check out the recently digitised Christ’s College Statutes, the ‘Treasury’ copy, from 1506!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI...
September 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Not quite the #perseids, but Newton's observations of the comet of 1682!
#astronomy #sky #lookup
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
August 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Need a quick intro applying digital scholarship and data science in modern library work?
👀 Look no further! 👀
@libereurope.bsky.social's 'DS Topic Guides' have been launched today at #LIBER2025!
libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...
July 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Newton's getting all prophetic! "And hence it came to pass, that for exploding the festivals of the heathens, the principal festivals of the Christians succeeded; as [...] the celebrating of May-day with flowers in the room of the floralia"
#Beltane / #MayDay
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
May 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Clockmaker John Harrison was born #onthisday in 1693.
Learn about the adventures of his famous marine chronometer (which include some pirate action during the mutiny on the Bounty!) in the digitised papers of the Board of Longitude:
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
April 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"The God of Love shoots an arrow at the Lover."
If only all shots came from Cupid's bow?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-0...
❤️🏹❤️🏹❤️🏹
Le Roman de la Rose (CUL MS Gg.4.6)
February 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Is it me or does this sun look a bit gassy?
Either way... check out the 2 tiny little ships sailing away from the eclipse its causing! ⛵🌬️⛵🌞
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
January 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Wonder why giraffes always look so cross? There's something about the facial expressions... this one printed in China in 1489!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FC-0...
January 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We've digitised a 13th c manuscript copy of a homily he wrote about st John's Gospel, but it's in Greek, so probably not as interesting as his matrix ideas! We have an approx lifespan of c.810-c.877 for him though which might help?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-0...
January 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You spin me right round,
like medieval volvelle,
right round, round...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GONV...
This intricate device in a manuscript from @caiuscollege.bsky.social sure is a stunning head-turner!
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Feeling festive yet? ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
Isaac Newton certainly is - Check out these snowflakes!
"... snowy figures of wch in ye same snow are great in variety"
(From his notes on Hook's Micrographia)
❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
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December 13, 2024 at 11:48 AM
When you're trying to decide if you should wear that old pirate hat to the party...
The Breviary of Marie de Saint Pol (MS Dd.5.5) never fails to amaze!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-0...
November 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Some of the most wonderful shades of beige!
#WorldPoetryDay
What will you discover?
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 21, 2024 at 12:21 PM
We'd love to hear your #WorldPoetryDay discoveries in our collections! (16/16 🧵)
Go on, get searching and have a rummage: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 21, 2024 at 12:14 PM
And you can even find our personal favourite, 'Digital' a poem about us by Imtiaz Dharker!
#WorldPoetryDay (15/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Or maybe you can solve this alchemical mystery?
#WorldPoetryDay (13/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GONV...
March 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Quia per Incarnati:
"For by the mystery of the Word made flesh,
the light of thy brightness has shone anew into the eyes of our mind,
Minerva has sprung from the head of Jove."
David Jones' poetry and painting combine!
#WorldPoetryDay (4/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KY-D...
March 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Go on a journey with William Langland's, Piers Plowman, Newnham College, MS 4
#WorldPoetryDay (3/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NEWN...
March 21, 2024 at 11:36 AM
One of the earliest surviving examples of English verse, Caedmon's hymn written in the back of the Moore Bede, mid 8th century #WorldPoetryDay (2/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-KK-0...
March 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM
For #WorldPoetryDay of course there’s Brooke, Sassoon and Tennyson, but there’s also poetic flower arranging, dragon slaying, French romance, some musings from Darwin, a poetical Theory of Screws and even one about us! (1/16 🧵)
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
March 21, 2024 at 11:29 AM
That famous old red squirrel saying:
"Whilst the naked soldier fights
grotesques in the margins,
Thou shouldst sit up
and look cute in the corner."
Have fun exploring the margins of this book of Psalter fragments (MS Add. 4085)!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
February 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM
So where were you 978 years ago?
Oooh, let me think, 23 January 1045?
- I was attending the marriage and coronation of Queen Edith of course!
From the sumptuous Life of St Edward the Confessor (MS Ee.3.59)
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January 23, 2024 at 11:58 AM