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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Rubbings of sixteenth-century bindings in the University and college libraries of Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum and in private hands
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6654-6655
Dates:
1910-1913 (Circa)
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Rupert Chawner Brooke: Draft of John Webster and the Elizabethan drama (London, 1916).
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6202-6203
Scope and Contents
Includes an appendix and a typescript of chapters from the same work.
Dates:
1911-1912
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Samuel Sandars: Transcribed extracts from British Library manuscripts concerning the town and University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.729
Scope and Contents
Inside front cover, a note `Care has been taken not to copy any thing contained in MSS. Baker II, IV, VI, IX, X, XI, as transcripts of these volumes are already in Cambridge Unviersity Library'. [1] (fol.2) `Vetus liber Archdiaconi Eliensis', dealing with church furniture in Cambridge c.1276-1349, from Baker MS.3 (Harl.7030), p.507, a transcript of Caius College MS.204; in Latin. [2] (fol.16) Andrew Perne, order against playing football, 1580, from Baker MS.3, p.423. [3] (fol.17) Note of...
Dates:
1869
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Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett: Notebooks and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8076
Scope and Contents
The collection covers Bartlett's scientific and professional work. It comprises notebooks, a small amount of correspondence, and drafts and notes for lectures, addresses and papers; many are written on the back of undergraduates' essays or examination scripts, and very few are dated. The collection includes notebooks of Bartlett's early experiments on memory and association tests, 1914-1917 (A.4; A.6-A.9; A.11). There is no biographical material as such, but B.86 contains an autobiographical...
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
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Sir Herbert Butterfield: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Butterfield
Scope and Contents
The papers described in this catalogue date chiefly from the end of the Second World War to the 1970s; from the beginning of this period Butterfield was assisted in his University and college duties by a secretary. The collection documents almost all aspects of his academic life and writings, and provides a record of the wider development of historical studies over the course of his career.
Dates:
1786-1979 (Much of the material is undated, so approximate dates have been given.)
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg and others: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8328
Scope and Contents
Sir William Lawrence Bragg: letters and notes regarding a book on crystals (1929, 1 folder, c. 23 items) Notes headed 'X ray Optics (crystal physics)', handwritten and typed. Notes beginning '(1) Temperature factors', handwritten. Letter from Miss W.E. Deighton, sending copies of letters between Mr Astbury and Sir William Henry Bragg, about 'the book', Feb. 1929. Correspondence between William Henry Bragg and W.L. Bragg, Jan. - Feb. 1929, about a proposed book on crystals, including a...
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
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Societas Sanctae Crucis: Records
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5053
Scope and Contents
278 folios: (fos 1-3) preliminary notice; (fos 4-8) E.B. Pusey to Sabine Baring-Gould, 9 January [1854]; (fos 9, 10) copy of a letter from James Elwin Millard to Baring-Gould, 24 January [1854]; (fos 11 and 12) copy of a letter from J.M. Neale to an unidentified recipient, 21 February 1854; (fos 13, 14) dates of meetings held; (fo. 15) list of members; (fos 16, 17) statements of accounts; (fos 20-42) minutes of meetings and a report, 28 October 1854 - 20 May 1855. Fos i, ii, 18, 19 and...
Dates:
1854-1855
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Taxor's book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4150
Scope and Contents
A Cambridge University taxor's book containing copies of charters, extracts from University Statutes, forms of proclamations and related papers. The versos are blank. Inside the front cover is 'F. H. Dickinson Oct. 2 1858 5s', 'Saml Sandars A M Trin. Coll. Camb. 1888', and a cutting from the printed catalogue of F.H. Dickinson's sale, in which the manuscript was lot 130. On the last fly-leaf in pencil is 'Bennett' (19th century).
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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The 1570 Statutes of the University of Cambridge, and related material
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.722
Scope and Contents
In the hand of William Sandcroft. (fo. 6) note with autograph of Sancroft, 'Of two statutes, the restrayning Statute doth bind. If neither restrained, the latter doth bind.'; (fo. 6v) alphabetical list of contents; (fo. 8) address to University by Elizabeth I; (fo. 9) statutes of the University, 1570.
Dates:
1690 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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The Cambridge Election
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.624
Scope and Contents
An anonymous set of verses in seven stanzas. Fo. 1: 'Samuel Sandars'.
Dates:
1700 (Circa)
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Thomas George Bedford and others: Class Experiments
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8325
Scope and Contents
Box 1: class experiments, 1911-1922, nos. 15-48, by Bedford and Stead. Class experiments, 1911-1939, nos. 54-89, by Bedford. Box 2: class experiments, 1911-1935, nos. 91-158, by Bedford, Stead and Roberts. Class experiments, 102.1-103.1. Box 3: class experiments, 103.5-105.2. Class experiments, 1907-1922, nos. 161-205, by Bedford and Searle. Box 4: class experiments, 1912-1925, nos. 213-266. Class experiments, 1919-1938, nos. A-H, by Bedford, Roberts, Reimann and Sharman. Box 5: class...
Dates:
1907-1939 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Thomas Gray: Catalogue of Books in the Royal Library
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5994
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of books in the Royal Library of Cambridge University Library, mainly incunabula, in the hand of Thomas Gray. The arrangement, in two shelves, antedates that of F.S. Parris' catalogue (1752).
Dates:
1742-1752 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Thomas Hilken: Collections for ''Engineering at Cambridge University 1783-1965'' (1967)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8118
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Thomas Hilken, Engineering at Cambridge University, 1783-1965 (Cambridge University Press, 1967). Box 1: Notes compiled from the Cambridge University reporter, Faculty Board of Engineering notes and minutes, and other sources, including material on the Engineering Laboratory. Box 2: Edited drafts of Engineering at Cambridge University. Box 3: The printed version of Engineering at Cambridge University; a manuscript draft of the book, including additional material not found...
Dates:
1957 (circa)
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Thomas Man: Cambridge University Medical Diploma
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6610
Scope and Contents
Cambridge medical diploma granted to Thomas Man, 1681, in Latin, 22 folios: (fo. 4) letter from B. Benham to C. Sayle, 7 July 1917; (fo. 5) list of Cambridge medical degree diplomas in the British Museum; (fo. 6) particulars of the career of Thomas Man, in the hand of A. Gray, Master of Jesus; (fo. 7) diploma granted by the University of Cambridge to T. Man of Jesus College, 2 June 1681; (fo. 8) blank. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Sir William Osler, Bart, with the number...
Dates:
1681-1917
Conditions Governing Access:
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Thomas Pierce Williams: Notes on astronomy, physics and mathematics
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4308-4316
Scope and Contents
Notes compiled by Thomas Williams when an undergraduate at Cambridge University.
Dates:
1809-1810
Conditions Governing Access:
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Trinity College Cambridge Book Club: Minutes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6169
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of members, books and names of candidates. There are many blank pages.
Dates:
1852-1860
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tripos verses
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3873
Scope and Contents
44 sets of Latin verses, circulated when an act for degree was kept, written in various hands. Nos 1-14 are dated 1575-1584. The following are endorsed: 'Carmina bach. tripodis 17o f[eb.] primo die quadragesime 1579 secundum compotum ecclesie Anglie' [3]; 'Carmina patris viz magistri Hutchynson in ultimo actu scilicet 17 Martii 1579 secundum compu[tum...]' [4]; 'Carmina patris die comitiorum quadragesime 1581' [7]; 'primo die Quadragesime 1582 secundum computum ecclesie etc. D. Palmer Tri.'...
Dates:
1575-1590 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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True Blue Club: Minute Books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8877
Scope and Contents
Minute books for 1756-1865, 1865-1959, and 1959-88; with Copy minutes for 1756-1865 and 1865-1913. The books cover rules, lists of members, fines for offences against the rules, notes of meetings, dinners, and other meals.
Dates:
1756-1988
Conditions Governing Access:
Partially restricted. No restriction on access for material older than 80 years. No photocopying, but other means allowed.
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Cambridge University Library
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University of Cambridge: Analysis of Poll in the Parliamentary Election
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.13
Dates:
1882
Conditions Governing Access:
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University of Cambridge: Catalogue of classical marbles
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2681
Scope and Contents
Catalogue of marble sculpture presented to the University of Cambridge by John Disney of The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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University of Cambridge Celibacy Debate
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.725
Scope and Contents
A collection of signatures, correspondence, financial papers and other material concerning the Celibacy Debate, 1857, compiled by Robert Potts, secretary to the Memorial Committee, c. 1853-70. Various hands. The collection includes original letters and signatures of many Cambridge figures from the period.
Dates:
1857
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University of Cambridge: Draft of address to the King on the termination of war
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.4
Dates:
2 Apr. 1763
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University of Cambridge: fragment of what appears to be a history of the University.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.3
Scope and Contents
Paginated 273 and 274, mutilated at end.
Dates:
1775 (Circa)
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University of Cambridge: Greek Question: Letters to John Peile
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.25
Dates:
1904-1905
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University of Cambridge: Minutes and drafts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.8
Scope and Contents
Includes list of Members of Senate who reside within 1.5 miles of Great St Mary's Church, draft of a resolution by the Syndicate appointed to consider the proposals of the General Medical Council respecting medical education, Valuation of Propety Bill and a resolution on an assessment of University and College property.
Dates:
1863-1877
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