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57:, and the first known Qur'an commentary written in Persian. The Library also owns over 1000 manuscripts in Hebrew. They cover a wide range of texts, such as Bibles, commentaries, liturgy, philosophy, kabbalah, literature, and legal documents. There are scrolls and fragments of this information, however, the majority of these manuscripts are in 48:
The "Faith Collection" will have works from many different religious beliefs, including Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. The Library's collections include some of the earliest Qur'an fragments on parchment, a section of devotional works and mystic treatises, a unique copy of the
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Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642ā€“1727). Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in
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designed to make items from the unique and distinctive collections of Cambridge University Library available online. The project was initially funded by a donation of Ā£1.5 million
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form. The oldest piece which the library possesses in this particular collection is a copy of the 10 commandments written on papyrus. The Library's Christian pieces include the
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The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University.
382: 77:. The Library also houses some of the earliest surviving Buddhist manuscripts. It plans to incorporate all of these into the digital library. 387: 85:
The pieces that the Library plans to use in the scientific portion of its digital library focuses on original
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manuscripts. The Library holds a large collection in the history of science. These begin with the works of
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and other key religious manuscripts have been digitised and put online by the University of Cambridge.
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Index

Cambridge University Library
GBP
Leonard Polonsky
Faith
Science
Kitāb al-Tawhīd
al-Māturīdī
codex
Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
New Testament
Moore Bede
Book of Cerne
Sir Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Lord Kelvin
Adam Sedgwick
J.J. Thomson
Ernest Rutherford
James Clerk Maxwell
Sir George Gabriel Stokes
"Introducing the Cambridge Digital Library"
Cambridge University Library


"Cambridge Digital Library looks to turn traditional library 'inside out'"
"The Foundations of Faith Collections"
Cambridge University Library
"10 Commandments digitized by University of Cambridge"
10 Commandments
"The Foundations of Science Collection"

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