University of Cambridge
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Programme of the ceremony for the award of honorary degrees in the University of Cambridge, 4 June 1953 (date of ceremony)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9578/42
Scope and Contents
Printed booklet. Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the graduands.
Dates:
4 June 1953 (date of ceremony)
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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Report on Cambridge University's needs
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/876
Scope and Contents
An undated report entitled 'Astronomical Needs for Cambridge University, for consideration by the National Committee for Astronomy'.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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)
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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Rubbings of sixteenth-century bindings in the University and college libraries of Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum and in private hands
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6654-6655
Dates:
1910-1913 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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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)
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 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.)
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 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)
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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Societas Sanctae Crucis: Records
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
S.S.F. Calleja: Letter to Cambridge University, 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/204
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Miscellaneous Accessions
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Taxor's book
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Thomas Gray: Catalogue of Books in the Royal Library
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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)
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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