University of Cambridge
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The Tripos is the formal examinations of the University of Cambridge. It is commonly divided into two parts, which are taken successively. Hector Munro Chadwick (1870-1947) was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University, 1912-1945. Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge University in August 1564. Sir William Cecil, Secretary of State and Chancellor of the University, requested that a book be compiled of verses composed by members of the University in honour of the visit. Most of the colleges contributed verses, but King's College compiled its own volume. The book was presented to the Queen and returned by her to Cecil. A second volume, detailing college founders, benefactors and members, was prepared, but is now lost.
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Marten Family: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7744
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence, some early sporting photographs from the 1880s and ephemera of public school and university life from the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1808-1964 (Circa)
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Medical Schools Building Committee: Minutes of fundraising committee
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3597
Scope and Contents
With the following letters addressed, unless otherwise indicated, to Sir Norman Moore Bt, one of the hon. secretaries: (fo. 13v) T. Holmes, 26 Mar. [1898]; (fo. 14) W. H. Dickinson, 24 Mar. [1898]; (fo. 14v) Frederic Bagshawe to Dickinson, 23 Mar. 1898; (fo. 15) J. K. Fowler, 25 Mar. 1898; (fo. 15v) Donald W. Hood, 30 Mar. [1898?]; ((fo. 16) W. A. Brailey, 4 Mar. 1898; (fo. 16v) W. S. A. Griffith, 31 Mar. [1898?]; (fo. 17) Edward Liveing, 27 Mar. 1898; (fos 21v-25v, 29, 30, 31) Sir T....
Dates:
1898-1899
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Minutes of meetings of the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4317
Scope and Contents
In the hand of W.M. Campion, 15 November 1856 - 3 October 1862, 110 folios. The entries from 18 November 1857 to 7 December 1860 are in shorthand. Another hand appears on fos 22v, 23 and 57. Attached to fo. 95 is a letter from J. Fuller to W.M. Campion, 2 December 1861.
Dates:
1856-1862
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Miscellaneous collection of documents chiefly relating to the Cathedral and Diocese of Ely, and to the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.41
Scope and Contents
Compiled by Samuel Knight DD. Includes statutes, copies of surveys, rentals, plans, notes on Robert Grossteste, charters, list of churches, biographical notes and lists of members of the church, notes on tenants and rents, testimonials to college figures, wills relating to College benefactions, orations, speeches to University of Cambridge Senate, lists of College fellows, copies of decrees relating to University of Cambridge.
Dates:
1317-1730 (Circa)
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Miscellaneous documents on parchment
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.71
Scope and Contents
Including: pedigree of the Fawconer family, 'per Raphe Brooke Yorks Herault 1613'; William Alington: patent of creation as a baron, 5 Dec. 1682; Cambridge University: list of chancellors and vice-chancellors with coats of arms, 1500-1632, and list of honorary MAs, 1583-1631; lease for 3 lives by Simon Patrick to John Acton and Edmund Rivett of the priory and parsonage of Swavesey, and of the manor of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1693; copy of will of John Patrick, with attached probate, 6...
Dates:
1613-1693
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Miscellaneous letters relating to Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7896
Scope and Contents
Includes documents on elections, appointments and statutes.
Dates:
3 July 1677-25 May 1840
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Montague Rhodes James: Collections of Manuscripts at Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4229
Scope and Contents
'Collections of Manuscripts at Cambridge, their History, Sources and Contents', the Sandars Lectures for 1903, 48 folios. A list of slides shown follows the text (fo. 45). The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1903
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Montague Rhodes James: Sermons, Lectures and Addresses
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7484-7485
Dates:
1887-1935 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers dealing with cases before Vice-Chancellor's Court, University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1603
Dates:
1609-1614
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Pedigrees and Heraldic Miscellany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6907-6913
Scope and Contents
A collection of rolls, pedigrees and books of arms formed by the Lambarde family, notably Francis Fane Lambarde (1868-1948), Brigadier General and antiquary.
Dates:
1587-1927
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Peter Parham: Memoranda on Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7966
Scope and Contents
Manuscript memoranda concerning Cambridge University affairs.
Dates:
1666-1676 (circa)
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Petition against the Act of Uniformity, University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.614
Scope and Contents
Petition by Members of the Senate to the Vice-Chancellor requesting that he will prepare a petition to the House of Commons against the Uniformity Act Amendment Bill. The signatures are arranged in one to two columns. Endorsed on the back in the hand of E. Atkinson (then Vice-Chancellor): 'Petition agst. Mr. Bouverie's Bill.'
Dates:
1863 (Circa)
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Petition of Irish Church Bill, University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.613
Scope and Contents
Petition by Members of the Senate to the Vice-Chancellor requesting him to submit a Grace to the Senate for affixing the Seal of the University to a Petition to the House of Lords against the Irish Church Bill. The signatures are arranged in two columns.
Dates:
1869 (Circa)
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Petition, University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.611
Scope and Contents
Petition of Bachelors of Arts and Undergraduates to King William IV against the return of a Whig Ministry with special reference to the Irish Church question. The signatures are arranged in three columns.
Dates:
1835 (Circa)
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Petition, University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.612
Scope and Contents
Petition of Members of the Senate to the Vice-Chancellor requesting him to prepare a University Petition to Parliament against the Endowed Schools Bill.
Dates:
1862 (Circa)
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Photographs of Cambridge groups and scenes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9723
Scope and Contents
Probably collected by J. Hawtrey May. Formerly mounted in an album. Only Cambridge subjects and 'Spy' and 'Ape' cartoons are listed 1. 'Magpie and Stump mock trial  1892' (a Trinity College Debating Society). Names listed, not always accurately. 2. 'The Epicureans' (on same board as [1]). A University debating society. Only Oscar Browning and G.E. Moore identified. 3. 'Cambridge dons. Procession to Gt St Marys for Memorial Service to Edward VII'. 6. 'The Hydahs Missionary Band 1900'. 7....
Dates:
1892-1907 (circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems on Several Occasions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6374
Scope and Contents
106 folios. The volume is probably the verse commonplace book of a Cambridge student. The authorship of the poems is not stated. Pages 2-6 and 118-206 are blank. There is a list of contents at pp. 207-209.
Dates:
1727
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Project for the Government of the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4149
Scope and Contents
'A projecte conteyninge the State, Order, and Manner of Government of the University of CAMBRIDGE as it is to be seen in the Three & Fortieth Yeare Of our most gracious Soveraigne Queene ELIZABETH' transcribed by Michael Lort from an original said to have been in the possession of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and dedicated to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University, +1768. Edited by Michael Lort 1769. The verso is blank. Inside the front cover bookplate...
Dates:
1768 (Circa)
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Ralph Widdrington: Epistolae Cantabrigienses
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6868
Scope and Contents
Written in various hands, 70 folios: (fo. 2) title-page; (fo. 4) text of epistles. Among the addressees are Johann Hevelius; King Charles II; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; Edward, Earl of Clarendon; William, Duke of Newcastle; Prince Rupert; Tobias Rustat; Sir William Morice; Duke of Buckingham; Edward, Earl of Manchester; Humphrey, Bishop of London; Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury; Richard, Archbishop of York; Grand Duke of Tuscany; James, Duke of Monmouth; George Monk; Sir Thomas...
Dates:
1650-1669
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Redcliffe Nathan Salaman: Scientific, Personal and Family Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8171
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, scientific papers, newscuttings and photographs. Also includes papers of Redcliffe Salaman's wife Nina Salaman.
Dates:
1843-1956 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 24 is restricted. Please apply to Department for Archives and Modern Manuscripts for access details.
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Cambridge University Library
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Returns for attendances of freshmen at Adam Sedgwick's lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3144
Dates:
1815-1816
Conditions Governing Access:
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Revisers of the English Bible: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6923-6950
Scope and Contents
Notebooks and loose papers created and accumulated by the companies and committees engaged in the revision of the English Bible. The papers are mainly in English, with small amounts of French and Ancient Greek.
Dates:
1870-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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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:
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Richard Gooch: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2616
Scope and Contents
A collection of treatises, published and unpublished, extracts, notes, drats and verses, many relating to the University of Cambridge. Includes drafts of the following works by Gooch: 'Liber Cantabrigienses', unpublished biographical notes on officials and students of the University of Cambridge; 'The British Youths' Familiar History of the Town and University of Cambridge', unpublished; 'America and the Americans', unpublished, with 15 watercolour sketches; 'Cantabrigia', newspaper cuttings...
Dates:
1823-1839
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Robert Willis: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5058-5062, 5064
Scope and Contents
Papers concerning Willis's book; The architectural history of the University of Cambridge and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton. The writer or compiler is Willis unless otherwise indicated.
Dates:
1857-1880 (Circa)
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