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Management Group
Gifts and Benefactions
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/G
Dates:
1509
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Gilbert Cannan: Writings and Biographical Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9388
Scope and Contents
Novels, essays, memoir, and biographical correspondence.
Dates:
1910-1976 (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
Fonds
Gilbert Elliot Murrary Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto: Letters sent from Calcutta to Lord Melville
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7401
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript transcriptions.
Dates:
1811-1812
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
Gilbert Murray: The Wife of Heracles
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7742
Dates:
1946
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
File
Gilbert White: Sermon
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6593
Scope and Contents
A sermon upon I Cor. xiii. 1-3, 10 folios. This is preceded by a list of places where the sermon was preached, 1765-1791. On a fly-leaf in the hand of Alfred Newton is 'From R. Holt-White Christmas 1906'.
Dates:
1765-1791
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giles Randall: translation of Theologia Germanica
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.26
Scope and Contents
The first German edition of the Theologia prepared by Luther, 1518. Slip attached to fo. 1: 'The following treatise was first written in the German language, above three hundred years since, by one who then was of the Order of the Knights of Rhodes, after about 100 years since turned into Latine, since made English November 10th 1681.' fo. 34v: 'Robert Baker his Book 1721'.
Dates:
1648
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ginger Lilies (Hedychium coronarium) 1891
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079A
Scope and Contents
178 x 117 mm. Showing a kneeling Indian boy holding a large bunch of lilies and was used as a Christmas card by Sir Everard Im Thurn. The mimeographed message on the reverse reads 'Ginger lilies' (Hedychium coronarium). Xmas 1891. With best wishes from Everard F. Im Thurn.' Im Thurn's fine collection of ethnographical photography is in the possession of the Royal Anthropological Institute (of which society he was President 1919-20).
Dates:
1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Giorgio Baffo: Poesia fisico-naturale
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6873
Scope and Contents
Written in the hand of P. C. Montchaussé, 212 folios.
Dates:
1792
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giovanna Giubelli: The Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8078
Scope and Contents
A typescript copy of Dr Giubelli's thesis on Dylan Thomas, 185 pages.
Dates:
1972 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giovanni Cibo: 'Genuensium res gestae', History of Genoa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9291
Scope and Contents
Giovanni Cibo's history of Genoa complements Bonfadio's earlier history. The volume contains a Dedication (f.3); a brief history of Genoa from the twelfth century to 1527 (ff.3v-18v); accounts of Genoese families omitted by Bonfadio: Cattanea, Spinula, Furnaria, Gentili, Usus Maris, D'Oria, Nigro, Cicada, Grilla, Marina, Salvaiga, Grimalda, Lercaria, Nigrona, Justiniana, Francha, Imperialis Familia, Lumellina, Calva, Pallavicina, Cybo, Flisca, Interiana, Vivalda, Centuriona, Promontorio,...
Dates:
1571 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Giovanni Francisco Brocardo: Diploma
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4137
Scope and Contents
Diploma of doctorate in canon law awarded by the University of Bologna to Giovanni Francisco Brocardo, 6 August 1615, endorsed by Francisco Bocchio and Vincentio Orlandino (fo. 7v), 8 folios. On fo. 8 is 'Hieronymous Grillus scripsit et miniauit'. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Samuel Sandars.
Dates:
1615
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giovanni Rizzetti: Challenge to Newton's Optical Experiments
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9282
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a draft letter from Rizzetti to Christino Martinelli, c.1720, with a description of Newton's experiment leading to the discovery of the aberration of light, and Rizzetti's experiment contradicting Newton's results; and two diagrams on refraction (p.13), the 'Anatomical composition of the eye' and the 'Aberration in telescopes with different lenses'. There are references to Descartes, Huygens and Tschirnhaus.
Dates:
1720 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Giovanni Valleggio: Verse commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8500
Scope and Contents
'Varin Statu d'Amuri', a manuscript verse commonplace book, possibly 17th century.
Dates:
1650 (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
Fonds
Girl Guide activities in Nigeria (Mary Johnson collection)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043II
Scope and Contents
A collection of, chiefly amateur, snapshots collected, and in some cases possibly taken, by Mary Johnson M.B.E. They measure up to 120 x 90 mm in size. Only numbers 34, 58 and 72-75 have titles on the backs. Numbers 1-59 have been identified through the help of Miss Josephine Shelley, contacted through Mrs V. Vaughan-Cox, who took the photographs to Nigeria (where she is a member of the Guide Executive) and discussed them with veteran members of the Movement such as Lady Abayomi (née...
Dates:
1930 - 1951
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
Girl Guiding in Malaya [i.e. Malay Peninsula]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031F
Scope and Contents
Collections of prints of various sizes. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms.
Alexander Cavendish served in Malaya from 1901 to 1933 and became Director of Co-operatives. His wife, Mrs Jean Cavendish, had been appointed Organising Commissioner for Malaya by Lady Baden-Powell in 1920 and became Chief Commissioner in 1921, a post she held until retiring to England in 1933.
Dates:
1922 - 1933
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
Girolamo Lupi: manual for train-bearers at Papal courts, c.1650
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9930
Scope and Contents
Ownership inscriptions: on titlepage 'Ginesio A____colla', at end 'Giuseppa Dominici', Who went to the Scuola della Trinita dei Monti on 4 NOV, n.y.Girolamo Lupi, caudatorio or train-bearer to the Cardinals at the Vatican, compiled this manual describing many ceremonial details observed at the Papal courts, in the mid-17th century. It was probably a fair copy to be given to new caudatori. Consists of 1 volume, in a contemporary limp vellum binding, Il Caudatorio... opera non men...
Dates:
1650
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Girolamo Venier: Report of the Venetian Ambassador to the Court of Louis XIV
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9243
Scope and Contents
The report, sent from Vienna, 4 July 1689, contains a detailed analysis of Louis XIV's relations with his family, mistresses and favourites; the excommunication of his ambassador to the Pope; religious persecutions; and the policies of other European states towards France. It was probably written as a brief for Venier's successor. The titleslip on the front cover reads 'Relatione fatta dall' Ambasciator Veneto alla Sereniss[i]ma Sua Repubblica in occasione dell' Ambascieria esercitata da Lui...
Dates:
1689
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
G.J. Hogg: Economic development in Papua New Guinea
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8348
Scope and Contents
A study of the Papua New Guinean economy, including chapters on industry, manufacturing, tourism, population, urbanisation, manpower, and workforce and localisation. There are forty pages accompanied by tables, references, appendices and a bibliography.
Dates:
1972
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
Glen Cavaliero Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10329
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: drafts and copies of poems, novels, short stories, articles, lectures and reviews; ‘Pleasure domes: a celebration’ (draft of a book about seaside piers); diaries, 1941, 1945–1946 and 1956–2016; personal documents (school reports, university, ordination etc.); notebooks of sermons; general correspondence files; and subject files, some including correspondence, relating to: Charles Williams; Arthur Machen and Tartarus Press; Phyllis Paul; Lois Lang-Sims; and ‘Kenneth...
Dates:
1930s-2010s
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of one file, the catalogued sections of the collection are open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed. 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
Glimpses of New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089J
Scope and Contents
An album containing 39 mounted black and white prints, measuring approximately 195 x 140 mm, and 11 coloured reproductions of scenes in New Zealand. All the photographs are mounted on thin card which has printed on it a caption followed by descriptive notes on the picture. The album contains an advertisement for holidays in New Zealand.
Dates:
1925
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
File
Glossary to King's College Cambridge MS 13
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.55
Scope and Contents
The words are arranged, first in the order in which they occur in the MS., and, second, alphabetically. Verso is blank throughout. fos. ii-v: blank.
Dates:
1750 (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
Fonds
Godfrey Harold Hardy: Mathematical Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6982-6983
Scope and Contents
Drafts for publication in the hand of Hardy.
Dates:
1916-1921
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Goepel Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021C
Scope and Contents
A collection of modern copies of photographs taken by John Goepel. The photographs have been inserted into Goepel's typescript 'Journeys in Arabia' which contains letters to his parents written during his time in Aden, April-November 1939. The typescript is stored at RCMS 67.
Dates:
1984
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
‘Gold Coast 1944-5’: Photograph album of Flt. Lt. Edmund Bell
Fonds
Reference Code: RCS/Y30448X
Content Description
Comprises a photograph album of approximately 140 black-and-white images on 30 pages, all dated and captioned by Edmund Bell. The album is housed in a bespoke solander box by Stephen Conway, inlaid with the crest of the Gold Coast Colony. The images relate to Bell's time as a Navigation Officer in Transport Command stationed at Accra (Headquarters No 114 Wing, Royal Air Force) in the Gold Coast [Ghana]. The images depict Bell's journeys from Accra from to Karachi, Cairo, Sudan, Trinidad and...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Castles
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448N
Scope and Contents
A series of photographs of castles.
Dates:
1945
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