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Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:

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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: 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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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: 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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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: 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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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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University of Cambridge, 1902-1903 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9787/11/1-15
Scope and Contents

Lists of signatures of examiners: History (1903), Medicine (1902 and n.d.), Mediaeval and Modern Languages (1903), Music (n.d.), Natural Sciences (1903), Oriental Studies (n.d. [before 1882]), Political Economy (n.d.), and Theology (1903) [individual signatures in this section have not been indexed below].

Dates: 1902-1903 (Circa)
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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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: 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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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)
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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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
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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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
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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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)
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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University of Cambridge: Greek Question: Letters to John Peile

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.25
Dates: 1904-1905
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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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
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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University of Cambridge: Papers relating to procedure on degree days, 1891-1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5944/41
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Includes correspondence, verses, notes and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1891-1892
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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University of Cambridge Patent to Hugh Martin to be Stationer and Printer

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3465
Scope and Contents

Includes broken university seal in red wax.

Dates: 9 Dec. 1682
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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University of Cambridge: Petitions of MAs and Head of Houses to vice-chancellor and council of senate

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.4
Scope and Contents

Subjects include relief of work-people in Lancashire and Cheshire, the Irish Church Bill, the examination for the ordinary degree, the printing and distribution of class-lists, the University Improvement Board, and the abolition of religious tests.

Dates: 1862-1868
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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University of Cambridge: Pre-Elizabethan statutes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2799
Scope and Contents

Inside front cover: 'R. Simpson' (in 17th-cent. hand).

Dates: 1650 (Circa. Written in a seventeenth century hand.)
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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University of Cambridge: Questionae Theologicae

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3320
Scope and Contents Five hands. In Latin. The following names and dates occur: Timothy Rivet, 'Quaestiones in Vesperiis Comitiorum', 1614; Laurence Bretton, 'Quaestiones in Die Comitiorum', 1615; John Bramhall, 7 June 1623; Arthur Scott; Joseph Naylor, 10 June 1625; George Parker, 25 June 1625; Thomas Aylesbury, 26 May 1626; George Fawcet, 7 June 1626; William Gilbert; Thomas Wood, 5 May 1627; John Land; Anthony Tuckney; William Fenner, 26 May 1627; John Mayer, May 1627; Nathaniel Fowle, 1 June 1627; Joseph...
Dates: 1613-1633
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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University of Cambridge Registry: Correspondence upon the Hours of clerks.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.15
Dates: 23 Nov. 1901-11 Jan. 1902
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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University of Cambridge: Statutes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5046
Scope and Contents

'Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis Academiae', statutes of Cambridge University of 1570, 21 folios. On fo. iv is a blazon of the arms of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, who was the university's chancellor, 1614-1626. On fo. 1 is an initial E. emblazoned with the royal arms.

Dates: 1620 (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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University of Cambridge: Transcripts of letters and documents

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3823
Scope and Contents With occasional facsimiles of signatures taken from Lansdowne and Harley MSS in the British Library, from Lambeth Palace MS 663, and other MS sources. (fo. 20) autograph signatures of 'subscribers for the Imperial Dictionary': Mynors Bright, A. J. Manson, W. Scott, P. M. Clark, T. Carpenter, 'Miss Sutton', William Banham, Stephen Sparrow, 'Miss Mason', William Roberts, Edmund Carver, Richard Foster, C. H. Cooper, J. S. Purton, B. H. St John Pell, W. J. Roome, Frederick Pary, Edwin...
Dates: 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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Upware Republic Society: Visitors' Book

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6266
Scope and Contents

Visitors' book, in various hands, listing members of Cambridge University who visited Upware, 6 November 1851 - 14 May 1856, with notes and remarks, 46 folios. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Arthur B. Gray.

Dates: 1851-1856
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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William Bateson: Scientific Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, field notebooks, material relating to Bateson's career, lecture notes, material relating to the University of Cambridge, papers documenting various scientific debates, draft publications, lectures, material relating to societies and organisations and photographs.

Dates: 1859-1935 (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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William French: Letters to him

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8805
Scope and Contents

Thirty-five letters, mostly to French, including letters of support for his committee to elect Lord Lyndhurst as High Steward (1840), thanks for copies of his translation of the Psalms and replies to invitations to Installations of Chancellors.

Dates: 1820-1847
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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William Thomas: Notes on Cambridge colleges

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7877
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notes on Cambridge colleges, 293 pages, dated 30 January 1824, followed by an index. At the end of the volume are family trees and genealogical notes relating to the Thomas family.

Dates: 1824 (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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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7342
Dates: 1840-1907 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Access to the original papers is restricted. A set of microfilms is available for consultation, reference CM04807-CM04856