With the generous support of the Friends of the National Libraries , Cambridge University Library welcomes a new addition to their collection of books annotated by Gabriel Harvey, far more copiously annotated with extensive and revealing marginalia than those from his collection already held in the Library.

Written mostly in English, these annotations provide a vivid insight into the mind of an Elizabethan scholar in Cambridge, and an English interpretation of the first phase of the French Wars of Religion.

Born in Saffron Walden in 1551/2, Gabriel Harvey became a notable Cambridge scholar and fellow of Pembroke College, notorious for his copious annotations in the margins of his books. Until this recent discovery, 155 books were known to survive from Harvey's library, fifteen of which are held in Cambridge libraries.