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An Abridgment of Sir Edward Coke's Reports, with an Index of Cases, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.06.11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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An invitation for Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] and a programme for an evening of music at the British Embassy [Paris, France], 3 May 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/11/16/4-5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Mainly comprising Lady Randolph Churchill's correspondence on subjects including receiving the Order of the Crown of India, the Hospital Ship “Maine” and Lady Randolph’s literary work (the Anglo-Saxon Review, ‘The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill’ and a series of articles titled ‘The Simmering Samovar’). Also includes a childhood letter from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill, letters from Montagu Porch to Lady Randolph Churchill, and a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill to J H...
Dates:
3 May 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Andr‚ Charles Corbin (in French, with translation), 23 July 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Templewood/XIX/File 13/91
Scope and Contents
1 item, paper
Dates:
Other: 23 July 1955
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
André Frénaud (1907-1993), 1976-05-24
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/5/24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Correspondence, prose and poetry.
Dates:
1976-05-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Archive reading room is open by appointment, Wednesdays-Fridays, but all visits must be booked in advance. Photographs may not be taken of the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes material without the permission of the Estates. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for permissions. The remainder of the collection may be photographed for private research, subject to UK copyright provisions. Those wishing to publish from the collection should seek advice from the Archivist prior to publication.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
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ANDRÉ JAULME: letter to [?] with bibliographical queries., 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4403/198
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
Other: 1923
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Andre Meyer and Lazard Freres., 1953 - 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STNR 2/5
Scope and Contents
Incoming and outgoing originals and copies in English and French. Includes a letter to Meyer in 1962 in which FGS discusses his role in the company.
Dates:
1953 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Anecdotes, good stories, notions for inventions, 1914 - 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/3/8
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains aphorisms, anecdotes, humorous stories, and ideas for inventions with accompanying sketches. A number of periodical cuttings have been pasted in (130 pages).
Dates:
1914 - 1935
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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‘Angleterre: Situation Economique de l’Empire’, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Grant 3/1b
Scope and Contents
‘Bibliothèque Universelle et Revue de Genève’ October 1930, containing an article in the ‘Chroniques Nationales’ section by Helen Newsome, pp 495-505, entitled ‘Angleterre: Situation Economique de l’Empire’, in French (translated by Jacques de Saussure, presumably from English).
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Girton College Archive
Series
Anglo-Australian Telescope papers, 1947-1983 (predominantly late 1960s - mid 1970s)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 47
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in RGO 47 date from the mid 1960s-mid 1970s beginning with the papers of a UK Department of Scientific and Industrial Research funded feasibility study for the building project. The class is an artificial, and indeed unofficial, one consisting of records derived from a variety of sources. Primary depositors were the RGO staff who had been closely involved in planning or construction of the telescope. Members of the RGO staff were formally seconded to work on the...
Dates:
1947-1983 (predominantly late 1960s - mid 1970s)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Annecy: La Rue Sainte-Claire, c.1930s-1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/35/4
Scope and Contents
Black and white postcard with the place name printed on the back showing a busy street with market stalls. No annotations.
Dates:
c.1930s-1960s
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
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Annecy: Lac d'Annecy et les Dents de Lanfon, c.1930s-1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/35/5
Scope and Contents
Black and white postcard with the place name printed on the back. No annotations.
Dates:
c.1930s-1960s
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
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Annecy: View of the Old Quarter and river, c.1930s-1960s
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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/35/3
Scope and Contents
Black and white postcard with the place name printed on the back. No annotations.
Dates:
c.1930s-1960s
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
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Annexes to Valentine van Muyden's journal, 1926-05 - 1929-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/AEF/5/3
Scope and Contents
Typescript copy. Includes copies of letters between Valentine van Muyden and Arthur Elliott Felkin.
Dates:
1926-05 - 1929-10
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'Annuaire de Législation Française et Étrangère' by L. N. Brown, 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/2/BrownL/5
Scope and Contents
Published by the Centre Français De Droit Comparé, New Series - XVIII.
Dates:
Publication: 1969
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
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Annual Reports of the Paris Observatory, 1992
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 35/169
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of 'Rapports Annuels sur L'Etat de L'Observatoire de Paris', Vol. I, 1878-1883, and Vol. II, 1884-1892, by Amiral Ernest Mouchez, directeur, originally published in Paris, 1879-1893. The final annual report is by a new director, F. Tisserand.
Dates:
1992
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Anonymous letter to John Keill, partly in French, partly in code, 1715-09-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.XIV 278.2iii
Scope and Contents
The part in French refers to M. de Multerne and audiences with the young king and the Duc d'Orleans. In the postscript the writer promises to fulfill the commission the Count has requested. John Keill was decipherer to Queen Anne ca 1711-1716.
Dates:
1715-09-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Anonymous letter to John Keill, partly in French, partly in code, from Paris, 1715-09-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.XIV 278.2ii
Scope and Contents
The part in French refers to the death of the king and the regency of the Duc d'Orleans. John Keill was decipherer to Queen Anne ca 1711-1716.
Dates:
1715-09-16
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
Antoine Michel Marie Tavera (m. 1950), 1978-1984 and undated
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/20/Tavera
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'T'.
Dates:
1978-1984 and undated
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
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Apology for Sir Isaac Newton in reply to the remarks of Johann and Nicholas Bernoulli in the Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences 1710-1711, 1712
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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.XIV 278.5i
Scope and Contents
Text includes formulae.
Dates:
1712
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Arithmetic exercise book / cipher book, Late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.12
Scope and Contents
(1) An exercise book in arithmetic, containing examples worked out in English, Dutch and French, and rules, some in rhyme. There is also 'a prittie way to write a letter to his mistris that any athor may not understande', i.e. a cipher, and on the last leaf, 'a prayer that K. William used after his fall from his horse'; (2) 'A ciphring booke begun ye 6/7 1670. In Beuerwyk by E. M. Blackett'; the first 21 leaves contain examples of arithmetic done in Dutch and English, beginning at Reduction;...
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Arles: Aerial view of the Amphitheatre, 1969-08-04
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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/35/6
Scope and Contents
Colour postcard with the place name printed on the back. Sent to Joseph and Dorothy Needham from Peter and Muriel [Burbidge].
Dates:
1969-08-04
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
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Art Annuals, 1977 - 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
A collection of art annuals and another book that feature Luck & Flaw illustrations, which were previously published in various outlets and as advertisements.The following are present:1. European Illustration '77 '78: The Fourth Annual, edited by Edward Booth-Clibborn. Pages 11, 12, 34, 35 and 41 hold images of illustrations.2. European Illustration '82 '83: The Ninth Annual, edited by Edward...
Dates:
Publication: 1977 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is restricted pending cataloguing. Researchers wishing to access the collection require permission from the Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts and will need to sign a Data Release form. 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
Art Portfolios, 1960 - 1975
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/1/1
Scope and Contents
Five portfolios that contain a large array of original drawings, woodcut prints, publication proofs, posters, and other items; all of which either feature artwork produced by Roger Law or relate in some fashion to his professional activities with various publications, organisations and companies. There are also some items that were made in collaboration with Deirdre Amsden.
Dates:
1960 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access:
See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Article entitled 'Du passé culturel, Social et Philosophique Chinois dans ses Rapports avec la Chine Contemporaine', Joseph Needham, 1962, 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/1/1/148
Scope and Contents
The article is published in 'Comprendre, Revue de Politique de la Culture', by the Societe Europeenne de Culture, Venise, 1962. There are pencil notes added to some pages.
Dates:
1962
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
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Articles and Essays, 1924 - 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BLGN 5/8
Scope and Contents
Written for various periodicals on literary, philosophical and political topics.
Includes list of articles which could be included in proposed book of essays by HMB [this was never put in hand].
Dates:
1924 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre