Scope and Contents Descriptions in draft of medieval manuscripts in the collection at Cambridge University Library by C.E. Sayle, B.F.C. Atkinson and A.E.B. Owen, produced between 1903 and 1960.In 1903, Charles Sayle began work on producing descriptions of recently acquired manuscripts in the Additional classmark sequence, supplementary to the printed catalogue published between 1856 and 1867. By 1911, his remit was broaded to include manuscripts in the Two-Letter classmark sequence, ‘examining...

Scope and Contents Descriptions in draft of approximately 1,200 medieval manuscripts selected from the collection at Cambridge University Library by M.R. James, undertaken at Eton College from around June 1926 to October 1930, and produced with the intention of publishing a new descriptive catalogue to supersede that published between 1856 and 1867.James had advocated as early as 1904 the need to revise and update the nineteenth-century catalogue, drafting an appeal to the University that more...