From ca 1300, the University's portable possessions were the responsibility of the University Chaplain. After ca 1400 they were housed in the 'new chapel' in the newly completed north range of the Schools buildings. These lists, compiled by [?the Chaplain,] Proctors and Registrary date mainly from the fifteenth-century and include the earliest surviving catalogues of the archives, 1420 and the library, 1424-40. They were bound up by the Proctors in 1473. Matthew Wren MA, Fellow of Pembroke College, added a further catalogue of the archives to the blank leaves at the back in 1622.
A modern numbering sequence, inscribed in the bottom right corner of each folio, has been followed in describing the contents as follows:
ff.1r-4v: Leaves from a civil law text, thirteenth or fourteenth-century;
ff.7 5r-9r : Catalogue of the library by Ralph Songer and Richard Cokerham, Proctors, 1473. Transcribed in Henry Bradshaw Collected papers (1889), 35-53;
ff.9v-11r : Blank;
f. 11v: Guidance on how to find individual documents listed in the inventory on ff.12r-17r by John Fisher, Proctor, 1494 or 1495;
ff.12r-17r : Inventory of University valuables - silver seal, cash and muniments - in the Chest by William Rysley, 1420. Annotated by Henry Richards Luard, Registrary 1862-91 in 1876. Transcribed by C.P. Hall, 'Wm Rysley's Catalogue of the Cambridge University Muniments, compiled in 1420', Transactions of Cambridge Bibligraphical Society, iv (1965), 85-99;
ff.17v-18r: Blank;
f.18v: Register of vestments and other ornaments in the new chapel, ca 1424. Transcribed in H.P. Stokes, 'Chaplains', Cambridge Antiquarian Society octavo series, xli (1906), 60-3;
ff. 19r-37r: Catalogue of books given by various donors to the common library, 1424-40. Transcribed in Henry Bradshaw, Collected papers (1889), 19-34;
f. 37v: Blank;
f.38a : List of documents in Wren’s inventory on ff.39r-43r missing in 1881, by Henry Richards Luard, Registrary 1862-91, 9 Apr. 1881;
f. 38r: Blank;
f. 38v: Notes on Wren’s inventory on ff.39r-43r by Joseph Romilly, Registrary, 1848;
ff. 39r-43r: Catalogue of the muniments by Matthew Wren MA, 1622;
f. 43v : Blank;
ff. 44r-47v: Leaves from a civil law text, thirteenth or fourteenth-century.