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Madden, Sir Frederic, 1801-1873 (Knight, palaeographer and librarian)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1801 - 1873

Biography

Sir Frederic Madden, (1801-1873), palaeographer and librarian, was born in Portsmouth on 16 February 1801, the son of Captain William John Madden (1757-1833), Royal Marines, and Sarah Carter Madden (1759-1833), daughter of the Revd Arnold Carter, a minor canon of Rochester Cathedral. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in July 1825. He was appointed assistant keeper in the department of manuscripts at the British Museum in February 1828, and promoted to keeper on 18 July 1837, resigning in 1866. He died in 1873. John Lydgate (1370?-1451?), poet, was born in Lydgate, near Newmarket, and was ordained priest in 1397. He was engaged as a court poet, and enjoyed the patronage of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, from 1422. In his later years he lived at Bury monastery. Lydgate wrote poems, allegories, fables and moral romances.

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

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 Fonds

Annotated list of songs and ballads headed 'Birt 1836', 1836-1850

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2691
Scope and Contents

Bound in is a printed copy of Catalogue of Songs sold at G. I. Birt's Song Warehouse ..., London, 1850 (24pp.)

Dates: 1836-1850
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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Catalogue of ballads, chieftly on a patriotic theme, 1842 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2645
Scope and Contents

In alphabetical order.

Dates: 1842 (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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Catalogue of ballads in his collection, 1841-1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2644
Scope and Contents

In alphabetical order. There are a few pencilled explanatory notes. flyleaf: 'F. Madden Decr 6 1841' (in pencil).

Dates: 1841-1842
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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Catalogue of ballads produced by London printers, 1837

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2642
Scope and Contents

The printers are: Pitts (fo. 2), Catnach (fo. 70), Birt (fo. 122), Batchelar (fo. 150), Hillart & Martin (fo. 173), and Sharp (fo. 191). Titles are arranged alphabetically under each printer.

Dates: 1837
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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Catalogue of ballads produced by London printers., 1840 (Circa)

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2643
Scope and Contents

The printers are: Taylor (fo. 4), Hill (fo. 27), Phair (fo. 55), and Paul (fo. 79). Titles are arranged alphabetically under each printer.

Dates: 1840 (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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Catalogue of the Roxburghe collection of ballads, vol. 2, nos 266-473; vol. 3, nos 1-339, 1844

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2648
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1844
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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Catalogue of the Roxburghe collection of ballads, vol. 3, nos 340-525, 1844

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2649
Scope and Contents

fo. 50: 'Finished this List, 20 July 1844 F. M.'

Dates: 1844
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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Catalogue of the Roxburghe collection of ballads, vols 1, and 2 nos 1-265, 1844

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2647
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1844
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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Catalogue of vol. 1 of Samuel Pepys' collection of ballads, 1842

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2650
Scope and Contents

Collection now in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. On flyleaf: 'F. Madden Brit. Mus. 1842.

Dates: 1842
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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List of ballad collection, arranged by printer, 1837

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2690
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of papers concerning ballads. Includes lists of ballad collections and notes for a history of ballads.

Dates: 1837
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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List of ballad collections, arranged by printer, 1836

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2689
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of papers concerning ballads. Includes lists of ballad collections and notes for a history of ballads.

Dates: 1836
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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Lists of songs and ballads sold by Cartnach and Pitss, arranged alphabetically, 1837

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2692
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Collection of papers concerning ballads. Includes lists of ballad collections and notes for a history of ballads.

Dates: 1837
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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Materials for a history of English ballads., 1850 (Circa.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2688
Scope and Contents

Including (between fos 51-2) letter from Revd Nicholas Bull, vicar of Saffron Walden, Essex, to [ ] Farrer, Aug. 1842; (fo. 62) letter from J. R. Smith to Madden, 27 Dec. 1856. fos 82-8: copies of 'The Pavilion' (2 versions), 'The Chain Pier', 'The Whore's Downfall', 'The Duke of Marlborough', 'Jack the Sailor' (1761), 'The Fiddler's Farewell', and 'The Light Horse' (1760), in three 18th-cent. hands.

Dates: 1850 (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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Memoranda re his collection of ballads, 'complied from my diaries, with additional matter occasionally introduced', 1836-1837

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2646
Scope and Contents

Loose between pp. 154 and 155: list of ballad printers in London, 1848.

Dates: 1836-1837
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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Memoranda re manuscripts collected from various sources, 1844-1856

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2651
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1844-1856
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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Memoranda re oriental palaeography, 1863

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2652
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1863
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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Memoranda re palaeography, 1846

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2693
Scope and Contents

inside front cover: 'F. Madden 1846'. label attached to front cover: '650/3'

Dates: 1846
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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Memoranda re writing and languages of various oriental nations, 1847-1858

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2653
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1847-1858
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).
 Item

of the Brit[ish] Mus[eu]m, to Edward Peacock [(1831-1915) farmer, antiquarian, historian and author?], 29 Apr 1864

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8203/A/48
Scope and Contents From the File:

These were found mainly in envelopes bearing biographical information provided by Munby.

Dates: 29 Apr 1864
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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Papers concerning collections of ballads, 1836-1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2687
Scope and Contents Lists of London and provincial ballad printers, ballads and slip songs published by Collard, and in the Pepys and Roxburghe collections, in the hands of Madden and Henry Bradshaw. Also including letters, bills, and memoranda re Madden's collection: receipt for rent signed by R. Henderson, 25 June 1783; receipted bill signed by William Collard, 18 Oct. 1837; letter from W. Clift of Cirencester, printer, 26 Sep. 1837; receipted bill signed by John Swindells, Manchester, 30 May 1839; four...
Dates: 1836-1873
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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Sir Frederic Madden: catalogues and memoranda

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2642-2653
Scope and Contents

Catalogues of collections of ballads produced by London printers and in the Roxburghe collection; catalogues of manuscripts in Madden's collections; catalogues and information concerning oriental manuscripts.

Dates: 1836-1863
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).
 File

Sir Frederic Madden: Index to John Lydgate's Poetical Works

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4372
Scope and Contents

Poems are arranged in alphabetical order of the opening line, with references to Ritson's Bibliographica poetica and other works, 496 folios.

Dates: 1860 (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).
 Fonds

Sir Frederic Madden: Notes of Manuscripts in the Collegiate Libraries of Cambridge, 1841-1846

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1027
Scope and Contents

Including notes on the following MSS.: Gonville and Caius 1072, 175; Trinity R.3.19-21; University Library Ll.4.14; Corpus Christi 45, 50, 80, 91; Jesus Q.I.8 (?); St John's B.6, C.9, K.26, F.18. fo. i: (signed) F. Madden / April 1838'. fo. iiv: '397-1873 / B. Quaritch' (in another hand). fos 47v-9, 54-86: blank. From the title page (fo. ii) Madden's original intention seems to have been to include MSS. from Oxford and elsewhere.

Dates: 1846
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 Frederic Madden: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2687-2693
Scope and Contents

Collection of papers concerning ballads. Includes lists of ballad collections and notes for a history of ballads.

Dates: 1836-1873
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 Frederic Madden: Transcripts of various minor pieces written by Matthew Paris

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3019
Scope and Contents

Intended for publication as an appendix to Madden's edition of Matthew Paris' Historia Anglorum (Rolls Series 1866-9), but not printed, with descriptions of certain manuscripts.

Dates: 1865-1870 (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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