The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
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ALT An illustration of two men wearing the traditional academic dress of a Bachelor of Arts graduate at the University of Cambridge. The men wear suits underneath their black gowns, which feature oversized white fur-lined hoods and matching mortarboards.
ALT An illustration of two men wearing the traditional academic dress of a Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. The men wear suits underneath their blue gowns, which feature detailed beading patterns, and matching mortarboards.
ALT MS centrefold featuring a bird, a flower, an insect, a person carrying a basked of fruit, framed in gold on the page's margin.
ALT Painted flower and insect surrounded by gold on page margin.
ALT Full double page spread of opening to Patent of Nobility featuring brightly painted marginal illustrations.
ALT Recycled vellum flyleaf from an old musical manuscript. From MS O.8.2. View the full MS here: https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.8.2/UV#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=5&r=0&xywh=-290%2C-5%2C4441%2C2896
![Rosa Luxemberg (from Briefe aus dem Gefängnis [Berlin, 1920]) (Sraffa 8162)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlhD8StWgAAmEF5.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A new pop-up exhibition celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month has been launched in the Wren Library. Delving into the Library and Archive collections, Library staff have brought together items which tell the stories of two extraordinary women, Virginia Woolf and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Open to all: The Wren Library is open to the public from 12pm-2pm, Monday to Friday. On display until March 31st.
ALT Library Assistant, Liz, looks proudly at the Library's International Women's Day exhibition panel.
ALT A sneak peak of archive documents arranged in an open display case in the Wren Library.
ALT Wren Library in a frosty morning scene.
ALT Borrowable book entitled 'Information Rules'.
ALT An image of the full length of the deed of Michaelhouse (1324).
ALT A portion of the deed of Michaelhouse, which includes the caption: 'Michaelhouse's deed of foundation, 27 September 1324, which includes its statutes and a description of the opening ceremony. The college was to be known as the House of Scholars of St Michael, but its full dedication was to the Holy and Undivided Trinity, the Blessed Mary, and the Archangel Gabriel'.
ALT Lucy Worsley walks through the Wren Library.
ALT Lucy Worsley is handed John Foxe's Book of Martyrs by the Librarian.
ALT Thorvaldsen's statue of Lord Byron sits brooding while Sir Francis Bacon looms in the background as part of the Library's painted window by Cipriani.