James, Montague Rhodes, 1862-1936 (biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer)
Dates
- Existence: 1862 - 1936
Biography
College head, scholar and author.
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Alwyn Faber Scholfield: Papers
Includes correspondence with Montague Rhodes James, notes on classical literature and translations, correspondence and material relating to the University Library.
Codrus Urceus: Sermones (F? Bonaniae, 1502); correspondence, 11 June 1902-2 May 1931
Correspondents include J.P. Lupton, A.F. Scholfield, Christopher Wordsworth, H.M. Bannister and M.R. James
Correspondence and papers on the education and early career of Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961), economic historian.
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
Correspondence from Montagu Rhodes James to Frances Clark
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Correspondence of Charles Taylor (1840-1908), Master of St. John's College, Cambridge
Letters concerning the purchase of a copy of the block-printed collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature known as the Kanjur (bKa' 'gyur) by Cambridge University Library; included in the collection is a receipt for Charles Taylor's gift in the sum of £275. The Kanjur in question is now located at Cambridge University Library Tibetan.1-104. [Some alternative transiterations of the name of the Tibetan Canon are bKángjur, kang-gyur, kan-jur, Kangyur or bka'-'gyur].
Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923), Librarian to the University of Cambridge 1889-1923: correspondence concerning the Sandars Readership in Bibliography
Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers
James Family: Correspondence
Josiah Cox Russell: Letter to M.R. James
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Lectures and addresses at Eton College, Cambridge and elsewhere, 1887-1935 (Circa)
Subjects are varied, but often discuss art and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Letter from Montagu Rhodes James to John Willis Clark, 13 Oct. 1895
Declines invitation
Letter from M.R. James, 30 Apr. 1912
Declining invitation
Letters from Oscar Browning to Charles Ryle Fay
The letters comment on Fay's career, Browning's health and historical writing, other historians and their works, and Cambridge affairs (including adverse remarks on M.R. James). All but the first were written after Browning's departure from Cambridge in 1909, The place named in the each letter's description is the place of dispatch of the letter.
Letters to M.R. James
M. R. James: lectures on the Abbey Church, Bury St. Edmunds
Notes from a lecture on the Abbey Church, Bury, from Lecture Day at the Athenaeum, 21 April 1932
M. R. James: letters to him about Eustace Talbot
Montague Rhodes James: Collections of Manuscripts at Cambridge
'Collections of Manuscripts at Cambridge, their History, Sources and Contents', the Sandars Lectures for 1903, 48 folios. A list of slides shown follows the text (fo. 45). The versos are blank throughout.
Montague Rhodes James: Letter to [?] Nixon, 1909
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Montague Rhodes James: Sermons, Lectures and Addresses
M.R. James: Miscellaneous Papers
Papers mostly relating to James' work on biblical apocrypha and cataloguing manuscripts, including notes and transcriptions of texts, plus other miscellaneous material.
M.R. James: On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury
Annotated copy of the published work, with inserted notes and letters to James.
M.R. James: The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover
Published work with annotations and inserted notes and letters to James.
M.R. James to Charles Fay, 14 Jan 1902
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
M.R. James to Charles Ryle Fay, 3 Jul 1902
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
M.R. James to Charles Ryle Fay, 29 Aug 1902
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
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- University Archives (GBR/0265) 1
- Type
- Archival Object 17
- Collection 16
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- Arts 1
- Belgium 1
- Classical literature 1
- Grenoble 1
- Lausanne, Switzerland 1
- Libraries 1
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