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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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Amulet to protect a woman in childbirth, 1600 - 1699

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 501
Scope and Contents A Hebrew manuscript, apparently dating from the 17th century, consisting of f.1, 225 x 84mm; text size 215 x 80mm; 30 lines on parchment. The text is complete and is an amulet to pretect a woman in childbirth, containing prayers and Scriptural verses. Lines 5 & 6 are written in a kabbalistic alphabet, or "alphabet of the angels". The MS probably originated from the Near East, possibly the Yemen.For further reading see T. Schrire, "Hebrew Amulets", London:...
Dates: 1600 - 1699
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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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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Browne's Persian Journals, 1887-08 - 1888-10

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

Notebooks and diaries compiled as part of Browne's trip to Persia, 1887-1888.

Dates: 1887-08 - 1888-10
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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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Concordance of proper names in the Hebrew Bible, 1870 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 243
Scope and Contents

ff.VIII + 417 + VIII; c.435 x 275mm; text size c.390 x 260mm; 2 columns of 54 lines on ruled azure paper bound in hard covers.
The volume is foliated 1-412 with ff.413-417 blank.
Compiled by Christian David Ginsburg as part of his ‘Introduction to the Massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible’, London: Trinitarian Bible Society, 1897. See also BFBS MSS 244 and 245.

Dates: 1870 - 1890
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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Cutting of a review of 'Heavenly Clockwork' published in 'Koroth', (Israel), 1960-06

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/108/58
Scope and Contents

The cutting is accompanied by a Cambridge University Press compliments slip.

Dates: 1960-06
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E. G. Browne's diaries 1 and 5, 1887-08 - 1888-10-10

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/BRO/1/1
Scope and Contents The first and fifth part of the diaries written by Browne. This volume consists of four notebooks. The first two contain notes in preparation for his journey to Persia dated August 1887 including lists of requisites, lists of names, places and their distances from each other, drawings, poetry and various miscellaneous notes and sketches made at different times. The third narrates Browne's journey from Trabzon or Trebizonde in Turkey to Tehran where the first part of his journey...
Dates: 1887-08 - 1888-10-10
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Esther, 1700 - 1799

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 240
Scope and Contents

Scroll, each sheet 535 x 225mm; 3 columns on each sheet, each of 138 x 113mm; 11 lines on parchment.
Of South European origin, there are no pictures in this manuscript which demonstrates that it was prepared for use in a synagogue.

Dates: 1700 - 1799
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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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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Halakhot Gedolot (incomplete), 1400 - 1499

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 233
Scope and Contents f.1; 347 x 280mm; text size 260 x 193mm; 39 lines on parchment ruled by hard point in Ashkenazi script.Part of the compendium of Jewish law, called Halokhot Gedolot, attributed by some scholars to Simeon Kayyara, who lived in Babylonia (present Iraq) in the ninth or early tenth century. It comes from the section Arayot which deals with the forbidden degrees of marriage etc., and is to be found on folios 53b-54b of the edition printed in Venice in 1548. This fragment in Ashkenazi script...
Dates: 1400 - 1499
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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Isaiah (incomplete), 1000 - 1099

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 230
Scope and Contents ff.16; 378 x 290mm, except gatherings 3-4(2) which have been trimmed to 300 x 273mm; text size 262 x 185mm; 3-4(2) are 255 x 189mm; two columns of 29 lines on parchment. Loose leaves but once bound into codex form.Collation: 1(4), 2(8), 3-4(2). Ruled by hard point with a narrower ruling on top and lower margins for the masorah which, however, was not written. f.6 recto has a short marginal note, later than the main text and the line is pointed by the person who wrote the marginal...
Dates: 1000 - 1099
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Jeremiah 3(20)-19(14), 1700 - 1799

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 239
Scope and Contents

3 sheets, part of a complete scroll, each sheet c.500/550 x 405mm; 4 columns on each sheet of c.100/110 x 300mm; 48 lines on parchment ruled by hard point.
Ashkenazim origin.

Dates: 1700 - 1799
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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Jerusalem: Stained glass windows by Marc Chagall at the Hadassah Hebrew University, c.1966-1976

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/43/2
Scope and Contents

Colour postcard with the place name printed on the back. Sent to Joseph and Dorothy Needham from three people: Rivka Ashbel and two others with signatures difficult to read.

Dates: c.1966-1976
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Letters from Beatrice Lanzkron (nee Kahn) to RFK, 1947 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RFK/13/61
Scope and Contents

15 autograph letters signed. The file also includes 1 autograph letter signed in Hebrew from an unknown author, undated, and an undated photograph of unidentified boy.

Dates: 1947 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: This file may not be consulted without the written permission of the author.
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Masoretic notes, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 246
Scope and Contents

ff.202 + 10 later additions; 330 x 205mm; text size 283 x 140mm; 34 lines on ruled exercise paper, unbound.
The packet containing this manuscript is endorsed "Dr. Stephen’s Masoretic Notes" and the preface contained in the supplementary leaves refers to a Hebrew Bible published by the BFBS in 1898. This does not, however, appear in Darlow & Moule.

Dates: 1898
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Menu card and toast list for the fiftieth anniversary dinner, held 13 September 1985; together with a liturgy of berakhah (blessings) to be made over the meal, 1985-09-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.104.12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

No material is extant for the Cambridge University Zionist Society.

Dates: 1985-09-13
Conditions Governing Access: This material is restricted under the transfer terms.
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Notebook 2, 1887-08

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/BRO/1/1/2
Scope and Contents

Manuscript notebook with notes in preparation for Browne's journey to Persia including expenses, lists of requisites, lists of names, places and their distances from each other, timetables, drawings, poetry and various miscellaneous notes and sketches made at different times.

Dates: 1887-08
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Notebook of Edmund Castell, Mid to late seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.39
Scope and Contents

The notes are miscellaneous, chiefly Ethiopian, and occasionally Arabic or Hebrew with English renderings; part is also in cipher. Some of the leaves had previously contained anecdotes, etc., from classical and other sources, which remain legible under Castell's notes. See also MSS Dd.06.04, Dd.06.63 and Dd.12.15.

Dates: Mid to late seventeenth century
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Notebooks, 1623 - 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.16-MS Dd.02.20
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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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Notes on early printed Hebrew editions of the Bible, 1897

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 245
Scope and Contents ff.II + 180 + I; 264 x 220mm; text size 232 x 203mm; 26 lines on ruled exercise book paper bound in hard covers.Contents include notes on the following edition:1482 Pentateuch, Bologna (DM 5072)1487 Hagiographa, Naples (DM 5074)1491 Old Testament, Naples? Soncino? (DM 5076)1494 Old Testament, Brescia, Soncino (DM 5078)Beginning on f.76 are notes on BL Add. MSS. 21 & 161. ff.1, 43-75, 79-180 are blank.Notes compiled by Christian David Ginsburg for his...
Dates: 1897
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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Notes on Ephesians

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/14/10/3/5
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Notes on Genesis, 1640s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.05.56
Scope and Contents Notes on the first two portions of the book of Genesis, extracted from Rabbinical sources (Abarbanel, Jarchi, etc.). ff. 1-50 are in a different handwriting to the latter part; on f. 51 b is written, in the second hand, ‘1646, March 20’, and on f. 100 b, ‘March 27, 1647’. f. 1 b contains references to several passages in the book of Exodus. ff. 2a-50 contain notes on the first 12 chapters of Genesis, the heading being ‘Nomen authoris ...’, beginning ‘According to the opinion of hamiddrash...
Dates: 1640s
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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Notes on Hebrews 1 and Peter 7

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/14/10/3/4
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Notes on Hebrews 1 and the first epistle of Peter

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