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Album Amicorum of Abraham Ortelius, c. 1574-1598

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/ORT/1
Scope and Contents

The Album comprises contributions (signatures, inscriptions, poems, drawings, engravings, coats of arms) to Ortelius from a distinguished and international group of his friends.

Dates: c. 1574-1598
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Annotationes Criticae in Ecclesiasten., 1653 - 1655

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Reference Code: GBR/0273/BEAUMONT 51
Scope and Contents

Titled, as 454, by Charles Beaumont.
A loose bifolium (285 × 185mm) inserted between pp. 222 and 223 with additional notes on C.10:4.

Dates: 1653 - 1655
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Annotationes criticae in Pentateuchum., 1650 - 1690

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Reference Code: GBR/0273/BEAUMONT 49
Scope and Contents

Found loose at end: 49a-e.

Dates: 1650 - 1690
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Commonplace book, c. 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.59
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: c. 1700
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).
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Commonplaces, etc.,, 1630 - 1680

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Reference Code: GBR/0273/BEAUMONT 26
Scope and Contents

Vestigial Hebrew vocabulary, 2 bifolia (295 x 185mm);
notes on Hebrew prosody, 2 bifolia (285 x 185mm);
commonplaces, Aes - Uxor, 12 gatherings (fo, in 6s, 310 x 200 mm), stitched;
commonplaces, Abstinentia - Zeno; with index; c. 8 cms of bifolia/gatherings (300-310 x 200mm), unstitched. The commonplaces are largely from patristic sources.


Dates: 1630 - 1680
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Gratulatio academiae Cantabrigiensis auspicatissimas Gulielmi Principis Auraci et Annae Georgii II Magna Britanniae Regis filiae natu maxime nuptias celebrantis (1733), 1733

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Lett.4
Scope and Contents

Comprises printed verses by members of the University on the marriage of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange.

Dates: 1733
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).
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Notebooks, 1623 - 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.16-MS Dd.02.20
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous notes, rhymes, poems, cabalistic formulae and other miscellanea, all by the same author.

Dates: 1623 - 1635
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).
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Philological observations on the use of certain Greek and Hebrew words., 1640 - 1690

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Reference Code: GBR/0273/BEAUMONT 50
Scope and Contents Titled, by his son, Charles Beaumont, ‘Reverendi patris mei observationes philologicae de usu quorundam vocabulorum Graecorum et Hebraicorum’.pp. 1-8: index of Biblical grammatical anomalies.9-16 blank17-64: index of Greek Biblical usages, largely prepositions and particles.65-72: index of Greek Biblical usages, largely prepositions and particles (partly overlapping with the above).73: Notes on Biblical ‘Antanaklasis’ (use of words in an altered sense).74-80:...
Dates: 1640 - 1690
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Tyepscript memorandum from Raphael Loewe of College Road, London about the translation of 'Adon Olam', perhaps the best known of all post-biblical Hebrew hymns' and copy of Loewe's translation, 1962-12

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/19/1/10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1962-12
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Ullenhall grant, 1250

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/WOW/584
Scope and Contents

Grant of land in Ullenhall by William ___ [? surname indistinct] to the abbot of Conches. Kept with a receipt, in Hebrew, from Isaac, a Jewish moneylender. Three seals are attached.

Dates: 1250
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