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Alexander Edelényi: History of Hungary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9218
Scope and Contents
'Conspectus historiae Regni Hungarici. K.M. 1828'. Apparently a history of Hungary devised by Professor Alexander Edelényi and transcribed by Charles Mészáros, 1828. At the end it reads 'Opusculum hocce... [list of authorities]... elaboratum per... Alexandrum Edelényi Professorem, descriptum est per me Carolum Mészáros... [4 July 1828]'.
Dates:
1828
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Antonio Maisis: Certificate of creation, notary public
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9488
Scope and Contents
Volume contains certificate, in Latin, bearing large ornate coloured coat of arms. Loose leaves contain translation of text into Italian, and into English.
Dates:
1665
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Arberry: the papers of Arthur John Arberry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ARB
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1927 - 1963
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Articles on international treaties between Popes and rulers, late 16C
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9765
Scope and Contents
A collection of articles in Italian and Latin on international treaties, 1510-59, including agreements between Pope Leo X and the Swiss, and Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian, 1516, and Pope Paul III and Emperor Charles V, about heresy and Protestantism in Germany, 1546. Â1 volume, Sommario de capitalationi fatte fra diversi Pontefici, et Principi Christiani, Italian and Latin, in a single hand throughout, late 16C; in modern boards
Dates:
1550-1600
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Cambridge University Archives
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA
Scope and Contents
The University Archives is responsible for the selection and preservation of the internal administrative records of the University of Cambridge, dating from 1266 to the present, and for making them available for administrative and research purposes. The archives are as diverse in their contents as the activities - self governance, teaching and research, property management, student administration, administration of justice, external relations - the University has pursued down the centuries. ...
Dates:
1266 - 2022
Conditions Governing Access:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cambridge University: Verses presented to Queen Elizabeth
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8915
Scope and Contents
'Orationes & Carmina Acadamiae [sic] Cantabr: ad Elizab: Reginam 1564', around 315 sets of verses by 255 authors, all named and arranged by college. There are verses in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac.Here is to be noted that before her highnes cam to the towne by aduertisment of master Secretorie / order was taken for the makyng of twoe bookes to be exhibited vnto her grace. In thone should be wrighten in Romayne hand all the verses bothe of greeke / and laten heb. Caldee /...
Dates:
1564
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Canon and civil law notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9344
Scope and Contents
Notes on canon and civil law, mostly abridgements of pre-Reformation texts, especially Justinian's Institutes, with references to English statutes up to 1548. It is written in a single hand throughout, in Latin with some English. There is a fragment of a fifteenth-century medical tract on the guards of the volume. There are also ownership inscriptions in pencil, 'John Fowler his booke 1649' and 'William Fowler his booke'. 175 folios.
Dates:
1600 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cartulary: Casa delle Donzelle alla Zudecca, Venice
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9292
Scope and Contents
'Registro delle scritture spettanti all' habitation della Casa delle Donzelle alla Zudecca; et de i legati di detta Casa', a cartulary containing copies of documents from 1330, when land was granted by Doge Francesco Dandolo, to 1678. There are 91 text folios (Ff.1-89, documents; Ff. 90-91, index), with two further paper folios inserted at the beginning. The documents are copied in various hands, with several elaborate pen-and-ink capitals, some with the initials of scribes. On the flyleaf...
Dates:
1561-1678 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Catalogue of books in the library at Lund Church
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10139
Scope and Contents
A manuscript catalogue of the library in the church at Lund (in the East Riding of Yorkshire), made in 1676, listing c. 1900 titles given by Sir Thomas Remington, (c. 1612‒1681). The volume begins with Remington’s 'designe' for the library and goes on to discuss the use of the library, advising readers 'to take notice of the tablet that hands up, wheare he shall finde a catalogue of all the bookes in the library with directions wheare to finde any of them'. It is also recommended that every...
Dates:
1676
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Chadwick: The Papers of John Chadwick (1920-1998), classical philologist, lexicographer and scholar of Linear B
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/CHWK
Dates:
1946-2018
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College Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1849/CA
Dates:
1530 - 2000
Found in:
Christ's College Archives
Management Group
College chapel : account of the consecration of Peterhouse chapel.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/CHAPEL
Scope and Contents
Seven leaves (290 × 180mm) bound in a late 17th-century Cambridge style between many blanks by George Bayntun of Northumberland Place, Bath, in, or shortly after, 1894. It is possible that this was a copy for Walter Curle (or Curll), D.D., Fellow of Peterhouse 1598 to 1616, Bishop of Bath and Wells to November 1632 (when he was translated to Winchester) and a notable benefactor to the building of the chapel.
Dates:
1633-03-17
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Commonplace Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9221
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book in several hands, probably of Cambridge origin. The title on the spine is 'Epitaphia Carmina Epigram[m]ata & quaed[am] alia'. The volume contains extracts from Greek, Roman, French, Italian, Spanish, and English authors, epitaphs and commemorative verses, some humorous. The sections are arranged under the following headings: Carmina Sententiae Proverbia; Facetiae; De rapina et homicidio; De legibus regnor[um] administratione; Amorosi; Monuments Funeralls Buriall; De...
Dates:
1600-1639 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Commonplace Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9250
Scope and Contents
Latin and English verse exercises and Latin prose compositions. Authors of verses are shown only by their surnames, but most can be identified with boys from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset who matriculated at Balliol, Exeter and Oriel Colleges, and at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, 1737-41. The book is inscribed 'Thomas Bury's book Novbr. ye 10th 1736', later altered to 'J. Chichester's book'. It has the ownership stamp of Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), novelist, who was a pupil at...
Dates:
1736
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Cox Macro Commonplace Books
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Cox Macro
Scope and Contents
Commonplace books covering many subjects, including topics in theology, law, governance, the natural sciences, the arts, and human characteristics and relationships.
Dates:
Early to mid-eighteenth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
'De Alcuino Diacono' and 'De Joanne Sarisberiensi'
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/Pet.Misc.9
Scope and Contents
There are three hands (not necessarily of three individuals). The first and third texts (Alcuin (f. 1r to 2r) and John of Salisbury (f. 2v)) are copied from John Pits (1560-1616), 'De illustribus Angliae scriptoribus' (Paris, 1619) the Peterhouse copy of which (K.4.14) belonged to John Cosin (1594-1672, Master of Peterhouse 1635-1643 and August to October 1660, Bishop of Durham 1660-72). The principal texts are in bastard italic hands of the 17th century. Another 17th-century hand, has...
Dates:
1630 - 1670
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Diocese of Norwich: Ecclesiastical Formulary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9234
Scope and Contents
The formulary dates from the incumbency in the Norwich diocese of Bishops Edmund Scambler, William Redman and John Jegon, c.1591-1610.The formulary contains various ecclesiastical documents, some copies of documents, and a list of Latin forms of Christian names (53 leaves). It includes (f.1) Rudolph Game, resignation from the vicarage of Oulton, 1592; (f.1v) commutation of the penance of John Bowle of Tymworth, Suffolk, and Thomas Watson of Wilton, Norfolk; (f.2) note of the...
Dates:
1591-1610 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ely Dean and Chapter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDC
Scope and Contents
The archives consist of the administrative records of the cathedral, the College (or close), the extensive manors and estates of the Dean and Chapter, and include records of the medieval monastery, the `Prior and Convent' of Ely. There is also a small number of records about the Cathedral School. The monastery (later the Dean and Chapter) was a considerable landowner in the area and this collection is a superb source of information about social and economic history and agriculture in the...
Dates:
974-c2015
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Ely Diocesan Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDR
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records of the bishop's administration, and of his officials. The bishops' registers, which at first contained all episcopal acts but later recorded only certain important items of business, start with Bishop Montacute's register in 1337. Earlier registers, and those from 1610 to 1702, are lost, but transcripts of some 17th century registers survive.From the fifteenth century separate registers and records were kept of various branches of the bishop's...
Dates:
1251-c2015
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Fragment of what appear to be notes, in 17th-cent. hand.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.21
Dates:
1650
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Gray: the papers of Thomas Gray
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/GRA
Dates:
1725 - 2007
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
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Hieronymus Henninges: 'Genealogicum Opus Universale'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8994
Scope and Contents
Manuscript for 'Theatrum Genealogicum', 4 volumes, Magdeburg, 1598. The title page reads Genealogicum opus universale: continens omnes omnium aetatum familias monarchorum, regum, ducum... collectum et quatuor tomis distinctum opera et studio M. Hieronymi Henninges Lunaeburgensis ... 1578. There is a preface, followed by the first three volumes of the Theatrum Genealogicum: Tomus I, Genealogicarum tabellarum continens illustrissimas familias patriarcharum... Regum Israelis et Judae... Jesu...
Dates:
1578
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Jeremiah Horrocks: 'Venus in sole visa'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9320
Scope and Contents
The author's own manuscript, 206 folios. (f.3) 'Venus in sole visa: seu tractatus astronomicus de nobilissima Solis et Veneris coniunctione, Novembris die 24, 1639'. Chapter 4 and the last paragraph of chapter 9 are in different hands, and were probably added later. (f.40) 'Venus in sole visa...', the same treatise, in a slightly variant seventeen-chapter version, probably in the same hand. (f.84) 'Jeremiae Horroxj praeludium astronomicum liber primus, De motu solis', an unfinished tract....
Dates:
1639-1641
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Jersey Algae
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9692
Scope and Contents
Item consists of 83 samples of Jersey Algae pasted into the volume, annotated with their Latin name. Only attribution comes from initials 'H. E.' on the title page.
Dates:
1866
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
John Martyn: Raii methodus plantarum, Vol. II
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9684
Scope and Contents
'Tabulae generum plantarum quae in Raii methodo emendata et aucta'. Pencil drawings of plants, by genera. Each page has a heading for a genus, but many are then left blank. Supposition about provenance in front of book, written by 'W. A', alongside note from C. C. B. (possibly Charles Babington) that the first volume did not accompany this. Author tought to be John Martyn, Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge from 1732 to 1761.
Dates:
c. 1721
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library