Documents relating to the commemoration of Cambridge University and college benefactors
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
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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
Subject
- University of Cambridge (Organization)
- Queens' College, Cambridge (Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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