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Cambridge University Library

 Organization

Biography

The first home of the University Library was at the buildings now known as the 'Old Schools', developed during the fifteenth century. In its early years the Library was under the superintendence of the University Chaplain; the first Librarian was appointed in 1577 and the first regulations for the Library's administration were drawn up five years later. Until the bequest of Tobias Rustat in 1666 the Library had no income for purchasing books, relying instead on gifts and bequests. The Library was granted the right to claim a copy of every work published in the United Kingdom by the Licensing Acts of 1662-1679 and 1685-1695, and by the Copyright Act of 1709 and successive Acts, although this privilege was not fully exploited until the nineteenth century. The Library moved to the present building, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in 1934.

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

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Francis Jenkinson: Correspondence

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8365
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers concerning Cambridge University Library business.

Dates: 1886-1910
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis Jenkinson: Letters and papers from Cambridge University Library Diaries

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8809
Scope and Contents Letters, papers and notes removed from the Cambridge University Library diaries, MSS.Add.8728-8761. Subjects include book lists and purchases, requests for books from other libraries, notes on book sales (especially Kockx, Antwerp, 1892), requests for manuscript loans, copyright claims and reorganisation of the Copyright Office, collection of war publications and propaganda, reports on library business by W.F. Cuthbertson, revolutionary posters from Russia and Georgia, and the 2nd Lord Acton...
Dates: 1890-1923
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis Jenkinson: Miscellanea (Including Sanders Lecture)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6469
Scope and Contents

Includes a bibliography of Scilly, drafts of speeches, papers on incunabula and manuscripts, correspondence concerning Cambridge University Library and other subjects and various booklists.

Dates: 1890-1923 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Cambridge University Library Diaries

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8728-8761
Scope and Contents

The diaries contain occasional notes of Library business, including notes of books that were offered for sale, bought, presented, recommended for the Library, missing, or mutilated; autographs in books; requests for, and receipt of, loans; complaints; engagements; binding practice; visitors; copyright claims; and library rearrangement. The diaries were continued in other hands during the absence or illness of Jenkinson.

Dates: 1890-1923
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

F.W. Maitland: Notes on Cambridge University Library manuscripts, with a covering letter to 'Hall', 10 Oct. 1891

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/267
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Dates: 10 Oct. 1891
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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George Frederick Beaumont: Letter to University Library, 1918

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/77
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Henry Bradshaw: Correspondence and related papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2592
Scope and Contents

Arranged chronologically. Some items refer to Cambridge University Library business after Bradshaw's death.

Dates: 1869-1896
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Henry Bradshaw: Letters to Stephen Willoughby Lawley

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5344
Scope and Contents

11 letters from Henry Bradshaw to Stephen Willoughby Lawley, 21 August 1880 - 17 October 1882. There are accompanying letters from G.W. Prothero to Lawley, 2 February 1894, Francis Jenkinson to the same, 18 January 1896, and W.H. Macaulay to Jenkinson, 6 December 1908.

Dates: 1880-1908
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7671
Scope and Contents The collection contains letters and papers relating to the life and career of Hugh Fraser Stewart and to the lives of the members of his family. The papers include correspondence of Stewart's wife Jessie, and of her father, mother and sisters. There is also correspondence of Stewart's brother-in-law Francis Jenkinson, as well as papers acquired by Stewart for his Memoir of the late librarian, published in 1926. The Stewart and Crum families's shared interest in music is represented in the...
Dates: 1850-1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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John Sperling: Visitation of Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3426
Scope and Contents

Description and blazon of coats of arms in Cambridge churches and colleges, on the conduit in the market place, and in the University Library. Autograph. pp. 243-63: indexes. There are some incomplete additions at pp. 265-73. pp. 274-312: blank. Sperling's bookplate inside front cover.

Dates: 1860
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of Exercises of Bachelors and Doctors of Music

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6378
Scope and Contents

A reference-list of the exercises for the Degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music between the years 1875 and 1910, arranged in columns as follows: 1) name of recipient of degree; 2) degree; 3) date; 4) reference number of exercise. The names are in alphabetical order. The reference numbers are those of the University Library, where the exercises are kept. There are 22 folios.

Dates: 1875-1910
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of Hebrew manuscripts in Cambridge University Library

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3015
Scope and Contents

Dictated by S. M. Schiller-Szinessy to Henry Bradshaw.

Dates: 23 Aug. 1883
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of initia for Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Classes Dd to Ff, in approximate alphabetical order

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3014
Dates: 1868 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Messrs Dyneley & Gatty: letter to the Librarians of Cambridge University Library, 26 June 1820

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2594.2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes items concerning the Library, election of the vice-chancellor, correspondence of Henry Luard, University debates, building developments and material relating to Corpus Christi and Christ's Colleges.

Dates: 26 June 1820
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Miscellaneous accessions

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750
Scope and Contents

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Dates: 1659-2017
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Miscellaneous accessions

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10304
Scope and Contents

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library.

Dates: 1774-1980
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Miscellaneous Sunday Times Magazine Material, 1963 - 1975

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/4/2/9
Scope and Contents A file containing a variety of material that relate to Roger Law's professional activities, while working for The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times Magazine, both as a freelancer in the early 1960s and as part of the editorial team from the late 1960s onwards. These items include: two reader tickets for the British Museum Library, dated 1963 and 1973, along with a reader ticket for Cambridge University Library, dated 1972; a piece of card...
Dates: 1963 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
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Mrs Catharine Goodwyn: Letter to University Library, 1831

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/551
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1831
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Otto Clemen: Correspondence to Cambridge University Library, 1922-1923

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/277-278
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1922-1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on Recataloguing Cambridge University Manuscripts

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9329
Scope and Contents

Reports, correspondence and lists of manuscripts for M.R. James's recataloguing of Cambridge University Library medieval manuscripts.

Dates: 1925-1932
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[?] Prien: Letter to University Library, 1921

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/1135
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Richard Boulind: Cambridge Libraries Questionnaire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9357
Scope and Contents Completed questionnaire returns, some with accompanying correspondence, library guides and photographs of buildings, books and manuscripts. There is also an index. The correspondents include Andrew J. Armour (Assistant Chief Librarian, Cambridgeshire); Michael J. Farrar (County Archivist, Cambridgeshire); Kenelm Foster (Librarian, Blackfriars, Cambridge); Martin Golding (Librarian, Peterhouse); Virginia M. Kerr, (Avery Library, Columbia University, New York); Jean F. Lambert (Librarian,...
Dates: 1985
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Samuel Sandars: Transcripts from British Library Add. MS 6261

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.730
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of notes compiled by Thomas Tanner, bishop of St Asaph, concerning books in the University Library, Cambridge (early 18th cent.).

Dates: 1870
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sir Frederic Madden: Notes of Manuscripts in the Collegiate Libraries of Cambridge, 1841-1846

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1027
Scope and Contents

Including notes on the following MSS.: Gonville and Caius 1072, 175; Trinity R.3.19-21; University Library Ll.4.14; Corpus Christi 45, 50, 80, 91; Jesus Q.I.8 (?); St John's B.6, C.9, K.26, F.18. fo. i: (signed) F. Madden / April 1838'. fo. iiv: '397-1873 / B. Quaritch' (in another hand). fos 47v-9, 54-86: blank. From the title page (fo. ii) Madden's original intention seems to have been to include MSS. from Oxford and elsewhere.

Dates: 1846
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Notebook for Cambridge University Library

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9247
Scope and Contents

Notes, memoranda and sketches, mostly for Cambridge University Library, with occasional notes for other buildings and designs, including Downside School; Clare College; Ampleforth School chapel; Old Swinford church; Liverpool Cathedral; a sketch of (possibly) a tower; Bewdley church, Ribbesford; Falmouth House, St. Albans; and Golder's Green, Preston.

Dates: 1931 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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