Scope and Contents Descriptions in draft of approximately 650 medieval manuscripts selected from the collection at Cambridge University Library, produced by H.L. Pink between 1948 and 1970 and R.A.B. Mynors between 1948 and 1953.Following the abandonment of plans to publish draft descriptions of University Library manuscripts that had been prepared by M.R. James between 1926 and 1930 (see UA ULIB/7/3/74), H.L. Pink was tasked with updating and preparing James’s notes for publication. Promoted to...

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...