Following two years of digitisation work and careful curation of over 13,000 images, Queens’ College Library is delighted to announce the completion of our project to make Queens’ manuscripts digitally available via the Cambridge Digital Library. This was made possible thanks to a most generous gift from Dr Virge James in memory of her late husband Dr Nigel James (Q 1963). With our medieval manuscripts and many other rare artefacts digitised, Queens’ Old Library treasures can now be freely accessed online by scholars the world over.
Many of the digitised items are, as yet, unknown to scholarship, and we hope that their availability online will stimulate exciting new research and discoveries. Do have a read of our blog post, published here, for more information on some of our collection highlights. The digitisation of our manuscript treasures represents a long-awaited and essential step in our plans to make the Old Library’s collections fully accessible and realised as a teaching, learning and research resource. We encourage the College community to explore this fantastic asset, available here, and welcome any questions or comments regarding our collections. We are most grateful to Dr James for making this project possible.
