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Documents relating to the commemoration of Cambridge University and college benefactors

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.47

Scope and Contents

Includes: 'Commemoratio Benefactorum in alma Universitate Cantabrigiae ...'; extracts from deed drawn up between the University and executors of John Mere, 1 Mar. 1559; Matthew Stokys: brief of his legacies to the University; Queens' College: 'series Fundationis ex antiquissimis eiusdem Collegii Monumentis collecta 1616', with additions in English in another hand. fos. 1 and 28v: blank.

Dates

  • Creation: 1675 (Circa)

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

Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. After Knight's death in 1746, the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.

Bibliography

'Commemoratio Benefactorum in alma Universitate Cantabrigiae ...', printed in J. Heywood and T. Wright, Cambridge University Transactions, vol. 2, London, 1854, pp. 430-7. extracts from deed drawn up between the University and executors of John Mere, 1 Mar. 1559, printed in J. W. Clark, Endowments of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 1904, p. 20. Also see C. H. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, vol. 2, pp. 508-10; Queens' College
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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