Further information
A much fuller history of the University Library is given in:
Cambridge University Library : a history.
Volume 1: From the beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne, by J.C.T. Oates.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Volume 2: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by David McKitterick.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
and also in
Cambridge University Library : the great collections, edited by Peter Fox.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.