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The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections. https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/ https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
There are various calendars online if you search awareness days or celebration days. Here's an example: www.daysoftheyear.com/days/mar/10/
To celebrate #InternationalBagPipeDay here is a pleased looking pooch playing the puppy pipes. M.S. B.11.27 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
Correspondence between Michael Faraday and William Whewell has been digitised and can be seen here:
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William Whewell, influential British polymath & philosopher, coined words physicist & scientist, proposed new terminology for discoveries in chemistry by Faraday & in geology by Lyell. Mentioned in Trollope’s Barchester Towers; died #OTD 1866.
Professor, Master, Chancellor Trinity College Cambridge
Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
The books in the library are glittering in the spring sunshine today. M.S. B.11.3
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#worldbookday
Did anyone else enjoy seeing the full moon last night?
This diagram showing the phases of the moon comes from MS O.2.45-
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This labyrinth comes from the same volume. Can you get to the centre?
Watch now on YouTube: Taoiseach of Ireland @micheal-martin.bsky.social announces Professor Alvin Jackson as first Childers Professor of Irish History @cam.ac.uk
Speeches also from Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice and @lucydelap.bsky.social
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Planning a visit to Cambridge? What a shame isn't still here.
Keramopolion must have been a wonder in the 1880s. These tissue paper thin prints are tucked into a scrapbook in the archive.
#Fridayfeeling
We are very proud to have hosted this event. Read more about Erskine Childers at Trinity here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/
Welcome remarks by @micheal-martin.bsky.social at @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Irish + British histories are bound together:
sometimes literally! virtualtreasury.ie/item/CamTrin...
often personally - virtualtreasury.ie/item/CUL-MS-...
and collaboratively 👍️
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend!
#medievalsky
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 142v
Happy Lunar New Year!
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Check out our newly-updated resource - Darkness Visible - for studying alumnus John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.
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#ChristsCollegeCambridge #Cambridge #Milton350 #JohnMilton #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity
Imagine your documents were marked up for editing with this guy. Terrifying! MS.B.2.25 mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
#marginaliamonday
#medievalsky
To learn more about this manuscript, read our blog entry here: trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/g..., or see the whole thing here: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O...!
Here's to Women and Girls in Science, past and present! 👩🔬👩🔬👩🔬
And women as physicians.
Woman healing one another:
Women tending to the aged:
Women collaborating (about how to quicken labour):
Women debating:
In commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're featuring MS O.2.48 in which we see: 🧵👇
Sorry, not sorry you got side tracked. We love your prints.
Latest crafting obsession: Linocutting!
First piece was inspired by a watermark in the fifteenth-century accounts from King's Hall, Cambridge, housed @trincolllibcam.bsky.social. I was looking for female employees and tenants for an article but became a little obsessed with the various watermarks.
How is Tuesday going for you? These folk found in MS. B.2.25 have been waiting for a tea break since the 14th century. mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
And the south end of The Wren Library peeping out from the elevation. There's a series of posts about the building of The Wren Library on our blog. trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/b...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Weekend!
#medievalsky
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social B.11.22, f. 88v
2nd February is Candlemas Feast, it marks Christ being presented at the temple. Candles are blessed for the year. It also marks mid winter, half way between winter solstice and the equinox. B.11.3
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#medievalmonday
#marginaliamonday
Happy Birthday to Lord Byron, born #OTD 1788. Byron was a student here at Trinity College. As well as printed volumes of his work and collections of correspondence the library has his hat.
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#byron
This is squirrel is going somewhere. Click here to find out where: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...
B.11.22 is a 13th/14th c. Book of Hours bursting with beautiful and amusing illustrations.
#squirrelappreciationday