Opening Hours | Find Us | Access | Contact the Library Trinity College Library is the largest of the Cambridge college libraries with a total book stock of some 300,000 volumes. The modern College Library serves the needs of members…
During Open Cambridge Trinity’s Wren Library features some famous and not so well-known items from its collections, including documents and eyewitness accounts of the world’s first nuclear detonation. Trinity Librarian Dr Nicolas Bell said: We’re delighted the Wren Library is…
Pittoni’s imposing oil painting ‘An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton’ returned to the Wren Library last month following an absence of over a year during which time it was displayed in the exhibitions at the Grand Palais, Paris and in…
Digitisation, Cataloguing, Blog, Exhibitions Soon after Crewe books arrived at Trinity, the Library’s cataloguers and digitisation specialists began working on the Collection, in order to make its treasures available to the general public. Digitisation A few select items of special…
Trinity Junior Research Fellow, Dr Dan Sperrin, who is writing a history of satire in English literature, is also a cartoonist, including for The London Magazine. He explains what inspired his new drawings for The Byron Festival at Trinity and…
The Wren Digital Library provides access to digitised collections from the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The founding purpose was to digitise the College’s collection of Western medieval manuscripts catalogued by M. R. James in 1901-3. There are currently over…
Bust of Sir Isaac Newton 18th century
The study of English at Trinity enables students to explore the most far-reaching of questions about what it means to be human, to exist in the world and to share this world with other people. We believe, though, that these…
As part of the 400th anniversary celebration of Shakespeare’s First Folio, Trinity is exhibiting two copies of this foundational work and the Shaffer Playwright-in-Residence Tom Murray is developing his play North Star, following a staged reading at Norwich Theatre Royal…
Giacomo Casanova’s legendary life of adventure is well known from his autobiographical Mémoires. The Venetian writer and traveller charmed his way across eighteenth-century Europe. The discovery of a hitherto unknown letter shows that Casanova was also close to his family and…
The Wren Library is generally open to visiting readers at the following times: Monday to Friday 9am-1pm and 2.15-5pm. To make an appointment to consult items from Library’s rare books and manuscript collections please email: wren.library@trin.cam.ac.uk. To make an appointment to…
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Item: Detail of a carving Date: 17th century
Item: Kaladlit Assilialiait Date: 1860
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero Mainz: Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer, 1466
A Page of Ramanujan’s Mathematical Workings c. 1918
Wittgenstein’s Notebook 1914
Introduction Western Manuscripts
Elizabeth Palgrave’s 1823 letter describes the hand-written memoirs of Lord Byron seven years after his tumultuous marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke had ended amid rumours of incest and homosexuality, which galvanised his departure from England in 1816 never to return.…
We’re delighted to welcome back alumni who matriculated in 2011, 2012 & 2013 to College in July. Please see below for details on the day and information on how you can sign up. Programme 4pm – Registration and accommodation…
Lord Byron haunts the Antechapel, alongside other famous alumni, 200 years after the College authorities denied him a resting place here. During Trinity’s bicentenary commemoration of his death, a spectral image of the statue of Byron in the Wren Library…
Trinity College Cambridge will host a two-day Festival to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death on 19 April 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece. Byron was a student at Trinity College and is one of its most celebrated alumni.…
Master’s student Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet explains how his research into late nineteenth-and-twentieth-century Japanese thinkers curious about the universe inspired a work of art currently on display in the Wren Library, after attending the Trinity Art Class. Please tell us a little…
Guided Tours of Trinity Porter led tours are available for booking by clicking HERE. College tours are at 10am and 2pm daily. Unfortunately large group bookings are not available at this time. Should your booking exceed 5 booking slots, please…
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