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Samuel Dale: Journeys to Cambridge

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3466

Scope and Contents

Journal of eleven journies from Braintree to Cambridge. There is a later addition on fo. 1 to 'Dr Woodward', but this is erroneous. The journal, on fos 1-43, is followed on fo. 48 by miscellaneous notes, and on fos 50-87, 92-107, by copies of monumental inscriptions in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, taken mostly from Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana.

Dates

  • Creation: 1722-1738

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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).

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 Volume paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps at the Heber sale, Feb. 1836, lot 1554, and subsequently Phillipps MS 8361. Purchased at Sotheby's Phillipps sale, 6 June 1898, lot 148.

Bibliography

See T. M. Hughes, 'Dr Dale's visits to Cambridge', Camb. Ant. Soc. Proceedings, NS 14 (1915-16), pp. 95-120.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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