Comparison of Luard’s contents list with the records, now loose papers taken out of their guard book, reveals many inaccuracies. The following list is extensively corrected. Contents:
1. [Printed transcript of] list of books from the Registrum Librorum et Scriptorum, made in or before 1424;
2. [Printed transcript of] list, made in 1473, from the same [items 1-2 were published in Transactions of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1862, pp.239-78, by H. Bradshaw, having been copied by him from the original in the Registry];
3. Catalogue made 1556-7;
4. Catalogue made in 1573;
5. Catalogue made in 1574;
6. Catalogue made in 1582;
7. Fragment of a list of articles in [the University chapel] and elsewhere belonging to the University. [This is a draft/copy of the final section of the inventory catalogued as 10-11a];
8. Extract [by Registrary Tabor] from Dr Perne's will giving 40s to the Library Keeper. The will is dated 25 Feb. 1588/9;
8a. Extract from the will of Dr Perne giving his coins etc. to the Library;
9. Articles for the office of Keeping the University Library , 1582;
10. Table of the books in the University Library by John Frickley, 1582;
11. Catalogue of ‘Divers other parcells, things and furniture’ belonging to the University [including in the Consistory and Regent House; probably originally forming one book with the items catalogued as 9-10];
11a. Receipt for weight issued to the University, 1588;
12(1). List of books bought with the legacies of Dr Fox and Alexander Ross, 1656;
12(2). Duplicate of this;
13. Books delivered by Mr Field to Dr Wilford for the Library, 1667;
14. List of books sent into the Rustat Library, 1672;
15. Accounts of the books bought with the money received for the duplicates in Bishop Hacket’s Library, 1673;
16. List of registered books sent Feb. 1725/6;
17(1). Catalogue of the books and other contents in Mr Lewis’s Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1726;
17(2). Another catalogue of these;
17(3). Another catalogue of these and a plan;
18. Catalogue (printed) of the duplicates in the Royal Library to be sold March 1742/3, with the prices and purchasers names in MS [now catalogued as Cam.d.742.2];
19. Table of the classes and numbers of books in the Library, before 1748;
20. A similar table, June 1748;
21. List of books wanting in the [King’s] Library at the general survey by the Syndicks, 13 July 1748 (printed);
22. List of the books lost in 1777, all of which except 4 were recovered, 23 June 1808;
23. List of books missing at the inspection of 1846, 48, 50, 51 (printed) [now catalogued as UA ULIB 7/6/1/1].