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French songs: collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8923
Scope and Contents
Collection of 78 drinking and serious songs, for two voices, or for one voice with bass. Mostly in one hand, with additions in other hands. Drinking songs and serious songs, 40 anonymous, 38 by named composers. Index at beginning. Inscription 'ex libris Des Rochefort-Dailly De St. Point', and bookplate of Alfred Cortot.
Dates:
1714-1720 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Friedrich Gundolf: Zwiegesbranche
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7344
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl: copies of Latin inscriptions and a list of coins and a catalogue of pamphlets
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4012-4018
Scope and Contents
The inscriptions are arranged chronologically and include references to printed editions. The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1850-1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Frith India Series Vol. I
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022A
Scope and Contents
A collection of albumen prints, probably by Johnson and Henderson, mounted in an album. The album was labelled on the front cover 'Frith Series India Vol I' and was bound by Thacker and Co. of Bombay. It contains views in Bombay and the Bombay Presidency and a series of ethnographical studies, with handwritten captions. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the...
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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'From Aden to Quetta'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 57
Scope and Contents
Part of a book left incomplete on the author's death. The title, introduction, glossary and index were supplied by the author's daughter, Mrs Rosamond Griffin. The full title is 'From Aden ... to Quetta ... to Lahore ... to Delhi ... to Quetta: the peripatetic life of one army household between 1910 and 1917'. The memoir contains descriptions of train journeys in India and the accommodation, domestic arrangements and social amenities of army families in the early twentieth century.
Dates:
1917
Conditions Governing Access:
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From West to East through Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304F
Scope and Contents
Bound volume 'for Private Circulation only' of 50 pages of typescript reproduced on thin card, illustrated by photographs, measuring 105 x 60 mm, taken (with the exception of plate 1) by the writer. All are dated and, in most cases, timed. The captions have been amplified in some cases from the text of the diary.This book is the record of a car journey, February-March 1928, when he went on leave by driving from Kano to Mombasa via French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, the...
Dates:
1928-02 - 1928-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Fry: The Papers of Roger Eliot Fry
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF
Scope and Contents
The collection includes lectures, correspondence, sketchbooks etc. accumulated by Fry during his lifetime. It also contains secondary material comprising correspondence, photocopies, notes and news cuttings assembled since Fry's death by his sister Margery, daughter Pamela Diamand, biographer Virginia Woolf, bibliographer Donald Laing and editor Denys Sutton.
Dates:
1873 - 1969
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F.T. Hill-Cottingham 1878-1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311I
Scope and Contents
Two portraits.
Dates:
1913 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fu Bingchang diaries and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10337
Dates:
1939 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Fuentès y Guzmàn: History of Guatemala
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6625
Scope and Contents
The first part of the History of Guatemala written in 1690 by Francisco Antonio de Fuentès y Guzmán and dedicated to Charles II of Spain, 526 folios. The work is divided into a dedication (fo. iv), a preface (fo. 1v), sixteen books of text (fo.7) and a summary of contents (fo. 518). On fo. 487v is a rough plan of the town of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico, with rough drawings of buildings. On a fly-leaf is the name 'J. M. Bolio M. 1916', and on fo. i is the following note: 'The concluding two...
Dates:
1800 (Circa (copy of the original of 1690))
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Funeral of Cecil John Rhodes, April 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052M
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring approximately 285 x 220 mm. with letterpress captions pasted onto the bottoms of the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The majority of the prints are signed in the negative. With the album is a booklet containing the order of service, the whole contained in a folder bound in hide. Rhodes died on 26 March 1902 and, after a period of lying in state in Cape Town, the body was transported thence by train to...
Dates:
1902-04
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Furley: Papers of David John Furley (1922-2010), classical philosopher
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/DJFY
Dates:
1970s
Fonds
F.W. Maitland: Letters to Dr. Joseph Redlich
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8130
Scope and Contents
The following letters were written by Professor and Mrs. Maitland to Dr. Josef Redlich of Vienna, author of 'Local government in England' (published in German 1901, in English 1903) and 'The procedure of the House of Commons' (published in German 1905, in English 1908). They mostly concern an essay by Maitland on English trusts and corporations for a Germanic readership, which Redlich offered to translate. They also contain references to Maitland's health, his thanks for German publications...
Dates:
26 July 1903-20 January 1907 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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G G Maisis: Citizenship certificate, Bergamo
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9487
Scope and Contents
Volume contains brief family tree (mostly just patrilinear descent) and a document in Italian. Wax seal has image of individual mounted, carrying flag, and is surrounded by phrase 'S Alexander sergomi protector'. Two loose sheets are modern notepaper, one with a transcript of the main document, and one with an English translation of the same, the latter dated Feb 1998.
Dates:
1793
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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G. Leland; A Short Account of the Conquest of Java by the British Forces under Lieutenant-General Sir Samual Auchmuty 1811
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7402
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Fluctuations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8403
Scope and Contents
A photocopy of typescript poems, some of which are dated, 88 pages. There is a explanatory note at the beginning by Muhammad Asfour, Cambridge, 29 August 1982: 'The following poems are the major part of those written by Jabra in English. The text was prepared from the author's typescript, and incorporates all his alterations.'
Dates:
1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Gaetano Luigi Marini: Historical Memoirs of the Archives of the Holy See
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4512
Scope and Contents
Translated by Robert Charles Jenkins, 41 folios: (fo. i) title page; (fo. ii) translator's preface; (fo. 1) text; (fo. 36) note by Hartwell D. Grissell; (fo. 1) 'Hartwell D. Grissell Esqre with the translator's kind Regards'.
Dates:
1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Gaillard de Boëncourt: Voyage des Françoises en Pologne
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4151
Scope and Contents
'Voyage des Françoises en Pologne', 68 folios: (fo. 2) title; (fo. 3) dedication to L.F. de P. le Fèvre d'Ormesson de Noyseau (Avocat General du Parlement); (fo. 6) preface; (fo. 11) text with occasional footnotes; (fo. 64) list of contents. The binding has the arms of Le Fèvre d'Ormesson.
Dates:
1752
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Gaillard Lapsley: Cambridge Lectures on America
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9208
Scope and Contents
Lectures on America, 1916-18, including 'Impressions of America' and 'America and the war'; printed 'Timetable of the summer meeting to be held at Cambridge, August 1-13, 1918', Lapsley's introductory lecture, and a MS of the introduction to The America of today.
Dates:
1916-1918 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Gallery of Canadian history
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 344
Scope and Contents
Prints of paintings from Confederation Life's Gallery and Archives, spanning 450 years of Canada's history and including significant events in each province and territory, and in the country as a whole. Below each image is a short description in both English and French.
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Gallipoli watercolours
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 305
Dates:
1916 - 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Gallus: Der Spiegel Jungfraw Marien von der erlösung menschliches geschleches
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4454
Scope and Contents
From the Augustinian House at Speyer.
Dates:
1450 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Game of Zodiac: Directions
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6326
Scope and Contents
Directions on how to play an astronomical game for children called Zodiac, for the most part in verse, 19 folios. A letter is pasted to fo. 19 to an undesignated addressee from J. Wallis [publisher], Strand, 16 April 1808. On fo. 1 is the title 'The Zodiac', beneath which in another hand is written the date 1804. The correct date is not earlier than 1809, as is shown by the watermark. Inside the front cover appear the bookplate and signature of D.W. Smith.
Dates:
1809
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Gaol keeper's agreement, Oxford
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3937
Scope and Contents
Agreement between William Pope esq, sheriff of Oxfordshire, and John Bagwell, 'yoman Gaioler and keeper of her majestys common Gaiole of the sayd Countye of Oxford', detailing Bagwell's duties and responsibilities. Includes several clauses regulating the movement of prisoners and the restraint of recusants. Indenture, 2 pages, signed and sealed by Bagwell, witnessed by George Blynco, John Bankes, William Kirkby, W Cole, and Geffraye Cooke (?). Numerous alterations.
Dates:
21 Dec. 1601 (44 Elizabeth I)
Conditions Governing Access:
Not to be produced
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Garden party at Old Government House, Cape Coast, March 10th 1916
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448C
Scope and Contents
Loose print measuring 131 x 106 mm with a pencilled caption on the reverse. The print shows Sir Hugh Clifford (1866-1941), Governor of the Gold Coast 1912-19, seated with Lady Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Clifford (? - 1945) in the centre of a group of Gold Coast chiefs in the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, the old Government House of the Gold Coast. The pencilled caption on the reverse (?in Lady Clifford's hand) reads:'Old Government House, Cape Coast. Our garden party before a big...
Dates:
1916-03-10
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library