Editing Cambridge University Library (section)

== Special collections ==
[[File:Interior reading room.jpg|alt=Interior of the main reading room|thumb|Interior of the main reading room]]
[[File:Bronze book bollards in front of Cambridge University Library.jpg|thumb|upright|Bronze book [[bollard]] by Harry Gray in front of Library]]
As part of its collection<ref name="lib">{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections.htm|title=Library collections – Cambridge University Library|website=www.lib.cam.ac.uk|access-date=27 November 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915000658/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections.htm|archive-date=15 September 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> of more than 8,000,000 volumes, the library contains a wealth of printed and manuscript material from earlier times. This includes:

*A copy of the [[Gutenberg Bible]] from 1455, the earliest European example of a book produced using movable type.
*Library of [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]], Catholic historian and Regius Professor of Modern History in 1885–1902. The extensive library (around 60&nbsp;000 volumes) collected by Lord Acton for research was bequeathed to the University Library on his death. The collection contains books from the 15th to 19th centuries, with emphasis on European history and church history. Many of the books contain annotations in Lord Acton's own hand.
*An archive of [[Charles Darwin]]'s correspondence and books from his working library (including copies of his own works). In November 2020, the library announced that two of Darwin's notebooks had been lost, probably stolen, around December 2000.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-11-24|title=Charles Darwin: Notebooks worth millions lost for 20 years|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55044129|access-date=2021-01-15}}</ref> They were returned anonymously in 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Rebecca |title='Stolen' Charles Darwin notebooks left on library floor in pink gift bag |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60980288 |access-date=5 April 2022 |work=BBC News |date=5 April 2022}}</ref>
*The Hanson collection, containing important books on navigation and shipbuilding, as well as maritime atlases, some dating from the 16th century.
*The Bradshaw collection, containing more than 14&nbsp;000 books relating to [[Ireland]], printed in Ireland, or written by Irish authors. This is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. The collection was formed by [[Henry Bradshaw (scholar)|Henry Bradshaw]], d. 1886. At present, the emphasis is on books printed in Ireland before 1850.<ref>Sayle, Charles (1916) ''A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library, Cambridge''. 3 vols. Cambridge: Printed for the University Library</ref>
*The library of the typographer [[Stanley Morison]], who had close links with [[Cambridge University Press]].
*"The Royal Library", an important collection of more than 30&nbsp;000 books assembled by [[John Moore (Bishop of Ely)|John Moore]] (1646–1714), [[Bishop of Ely]]. The collection was bequeathed to the University Library by [[George I of Great Britain|George&nbsp;I]] in 1715, hence the name.
*The library of the [[Royal Commonwealth Society]], containing books, periodicals, pamphlets, photographs and manuscripts relating to the [[British Empire]] and the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].
*[http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=141 South Asian], [http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=142 Southeast Asian] and [http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=143 Tibetan] collections. 
*The [[British and Foreign Bible Society|Bible Society]] library and the library of the [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]] (SPCK).
*The [[Cairo Genizah|Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection]], a store of 140&nbsp;000 manuscripts and manuscript fragments, mainly in Hebrew and Arabic, from the Ben Ezra synagogue in [[Cairo]].
*[[Codex Bezae]] Cantabrigiensis, an important codex of the New Testament dating from the fifth century, written both in Greek and Latin. The Greek text is unique, with many interpolations found nowhere else. It was given to the University of Cambridge by the Protestant scholar [[Theodore Beza]], friend and successor of [[John Calvin|Calvin]]; hence the name.
*[[Codex Zacynthius]],  a Greek New Testament codex dated paleographically to the 6th century CE.
*The [[Cambridge Songs]] (''Carmina Cantabrigiensia''), a collection of [[Goliard]]ic medieval Latin poems, preserved on ten leaves of the Codex Cantabrigiensis.
*[[Edward Granville Browne|E.G. Browne]]'s collection of around 480 codices in Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
*Several composer archives: [[William Alwyn]], [[Arthur Bliss]], [[Roberto Gerhard]], [[Peter Tranchell]].
*Papers of [[Isaac Newton]], [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|Lord Kelvin]], [[Ernest Rutherford]], [[George Gabriel Stokes]], [[Joseph Needham]], [[George Edward Moore|G. E. Moore]] and [[Siegfried Sassoon]], among others.
*Archives of the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]].
*Material and archives of the University of Cambridge, from probates and graces to records of various student societies.
*Around 1.5 million maps.