A detailed project to catalogue around 100 early modern manuscripts in Queens’ College Library is drawing to its close. This exhibition presents some of the most intriguing and significant items to have been covered by the project. Highlights include a sixteenth-century diplomat’s description of Russia, exercises written by students for their tutors in the seventeenth century, and a copy of a work by Cicero which was found under a bathroom floor in the President’s Lodge in the 1980s. These and other exhibits will offer visitors vivid insights into the life of the College in the early modern period, interspersed with glimpses of the wider world which awaited many of its graduates.

The exhibition will then be open on weekdays (1.30pm-4.30pm), initially from 12 March-4 April (as part of Cambridge Festival), and then from 28 April-9 May after which it will be available to view by appointment for the remainder of Easter Term. Access is via the first floor of the War Memorial Library. 

Poster link: https://bit.ly/MusaeReginales-ExhibitionPoster