Cambridge Digital Library

... and 3D models to explore every angle!
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Our new built in RTI viewer allows you to inspect every scratch from every angle of raking light!
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What do you do with eight cases of Baskerville font punches?!
Have lots of digital letter fun of course!
There's even RTI and 3D Models to play with ...
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
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#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Shoutout to my amazing colleagues at Cambridge & Birmingham on the 'Small Performances' project into John Baskerville's typographic punches - today is released a @camdiglib.bsky.social collection of imagery of the punches. Check it out! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

Looking for simple ways to support Wikipedia and open knowledge? Here are 5 impactful actions you can take today: from improving an article to organising your own edit-a-thon.

#openknowledge #support #WikimediaUK #Wikipedia #editing

Excerpt from the Book of Deer, written in black lettering, with the word ‘béiťh’ highlighted in yellow. Image credit: Cambridge University Library MS Ii.6.32,f.4r. Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-00006-00032/8

BEITH, BEITHE ~ a birch tree

11.. Book of Deer 4r 8

Gonice in béiťh.

One of our earliest citations, from the Book of Deer written perhaps around 1150: ‘as far as the birch tree’.

See more modern variations here: faclair.ac.uk/entries/1

#SeachdainNaGaidhlig #cleachdinocailli #gaidhlig #faclair

A Seven-spot ladybird under a dried leaf.

“Insects come forth from their hiding places.” Revett Sheppard in his ‘Naturalist’s Calendar’, on this day in Cambridge, 23 February 1799. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... @theul.bsky.social

A Ladybird doing the same thing in the garden yesterday.

Illuminated line drawing of man piggybacking a monkey with Latin text

Apes, dragons and medieval figures adorn the 1505 illustrated copy of the statutes of #ChristsCollegeCambridge. Look out for the signature of College Founder, #LadyMargaretBeaufort on the opening page cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI...

📷 @camdiglib.bsky.social

'The two women turned what was little more than a collection of old sheds into a purpose-built, stylish studio and shop...' @akennedysmith.bsky.social on the creative & entrepreneurial collaboration between friends & photographers Lettice Ramsey & Helen Muspratt.

In the days before drones, Charles Darwin used his kids!
The result isn't so pretty though!
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One decoration in our office to celebrate the #YearOfTheHorse is a calligraphy piece in oracle bone script reading 物華天寶，人壽年豐 — “Nature yields its finest treasures, and the people enjoy long lives and abundant years.”This is an auspicious blessing for the New Year.

Sanskrit Manuscripts : Kalāpustaka A masterfully crafted 17th-century Nepalese accordion book, completely consisting of polychrome drawings, for a total of

Happy Lunar New Year!

We're welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse with highlights from our collections 🔥🐎

Kalāpustaka, 17th century Nepalese accordion book (MS Add. 864)
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There's so many maps that we're still exploring the delights of India for #MapMonday!
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"The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out", late 17th century, CUL MS Add. 8460 cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... via vamoul.substack.com/p/with-hope-...

India + Maps = What's not to love! ❤️
This new portal from @mahsa-project.bsky.social you can now search and use hundreds of detailed maps of India, and find data for over 1000!
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...

This digitised repository marks a major step towards the democratisation of cultural heritage and cartographic archives in the region.

🔗 Learn how to use the database:
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/explore...

🔗 Start your search today:
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A recent addition to Cambridge Digital Library, the 'Survey of India Maps' (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...) are part of a wider project that has created an amazing open-access search portal for historic survey maps of India!
You can read more about the project and platform below:
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Darwin Manuscripts : Notebook B One of a series of notebooks including Notebook C (MS DAR 122), Notebook D (MS DAR 123), and Notebook E (MS DAR 124) on transmutation

You can check out the whole notebook and more here!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-...
#DarwinDay

Her's a few of our favourite things in Darwin's archive for #DarwinDay!
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... And last but not least, a happy little cat!
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#DarwinDay (10/10)
Why not have a rummage yourself and let us know what you find??

Some yellow Wood Sorrel, still punchy and bright!
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#DarwinDay (9/10)

Some magic beans - that still look fresh and lean!
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#DarwinDay (8/10)

And even a photo, of Flora Rankin,
by none other than Lewis Carroll!
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#DarwinDay (7/10)

A stunning peacock feather, still shining bright!
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#DarwinDay (6/10)

Oxalis flowers, still faintly lilac!
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#DarwinDay (5/10)

Children's musings, on the reverse of 'Origins...'
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#DarwinDay (4/10)

... and pony tails!
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#DarwinDay (3/10)

There's Butterfly wings...
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#DarwinDay (2/10)

Did you know, its not all words and letters in Charles Darwin's Archive!
Here's a few of our favourite things for #DarwinDay!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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