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Remembering the Reformation

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beze‘Remembering the Reformation’ is a new AHRC-funded project at the Universities of York and Cambridge, in collaboration with York Minster Library, Cambridge University Library, and Lambeth Palace Library.

The project will launch on 1 January 2016, and run for three years, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s protest against the Church in 1517. More information here.

Théodore de Bèze, A confession of faith, made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyond the seas (London: Henry Bynneman, 1571), title-page.

New University Library Entrance Hall Exhibition

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The magic number: research at the Centre for Material TextsThe Magic Number: Research at the Centre for Material Texts

A display of recent discoveries by researchers at the Centre for Material Texts, an interdisciplinary group of academics working on the effect of the physical form on our interaction with texts. One case covers visual marginalia, the other Thomas Tresham’s fascinating obsession with geometry and the number three. More information is here.

Entrance Hall cases.                                                                                                        On display until