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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 The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms.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:
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 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:
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
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:
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
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:
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
‘Gold Coast 1944-5’: Photograph album of Flt. Lt. Edmund Bell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/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
Fonds
Gold rush watercolours
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 391
Scope and Contents
These small painted figures, animals and scenes illustrating the Australian gold rushes were created by an unknown artist. The donor W.H. Carter recorded in a letter filed with the collection, 'They were given to my mother in Adelaide at the time of an early gold-rush by a local artist about the year 1851.’ They may be the work of George Hamilton (1812-1883), who emigrated to Australia from England in 1839 and became a clerk in the South Australian Treasury in 1848, an inspector of mounted...
Dates:
1851
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
Gordon Jackson Papers (including the Grosseteste Press and Asgill Press Archives)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10306
Scope and Contents
Papers of Gordon Jackson, including material relating to the Grosseteste Press, Asgill Press, and other literary projects and friendships.
Dates:
1960 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to 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
Gordon Manley: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8386
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Manley's work in England and overseas
Dates:
1920-1980 (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
Gosse family papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7016-7035
Scope and Contents
Anecdotes, reminiscences, letters, photographs and family history
Dates:
1835-1939
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
Governance
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Gov
Scope and Contents
Includes colleges statutes, Chapter Books, Governing Body Minutes and Executive Body minutes
Dates:
1300 - 2022
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Management Group
Governance Records / Governing Body
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCGB
Scope and Contents
Records concerning the government of the College, including of the College Governing Body and pre-foundation records relating to the work involved in obtaining the College Charter and founding the College.
Dates:
[1764-1961]
Conditions Governing Access:
Governmental records are closed for 50 years from date of creation, except for those dealing with elections, tutorial matters and appointments which are closed for 100 years.
Found in:
Downing College
Management Group
GOVERNING BODY
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1936/THGB
Dates:
1352 - 2013
Found in:
Trinity Hall archive
Management Group
GOVERNING RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHGR
Scope and Contents
This section includes the following records: constitutional records such as Acts of Parliament, rules and regulations and legal records; annual reports; records of the hospital's governing bodies; and records of committees. Minutes of the governing body of the United Cambridge Hospitals and of UCH committees are included here at AHGR 3/2 and AHGR 4/2 respectively. There are also papers of the Trustees for Addenbrooke's Hospital 1740-67 at AHGR 0/1.
Dates:
1740 - 2013
Sub-Management Group
Governing records
Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHGB
Scope and Contents
This section lists records relating to the charter, statutes, ordinances and regulations; records of the Third Foundation Association which led to the foundation of New Hall; College Council and Governing Body records; and records of College committees.
Dates:
1952 - 2011
Management Group
Governing Records
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDGR
Dates:
1897 - 2015
Found in:
St Edmunds College Archive
Management Group
GOVERNING RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEGB
Dates:
1879 - 2022
Found in:
Selwyn College Archives
Fonds
Government Railways of New South Wales rolling stock 1885
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086D
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints, 270 x 220 mm. The volume has a printed title page: 'Photographs of Rolling Stock used on the Government Railways of New South Wales, each description of vehicle being illustrated'. There are no captions. No detailed identification of this volume has been attempted. The following is a summary: 1-35 locomotives; 36-74 passenger coaches; 75 guard's van; 76-80 luggage vans; 82 horse boxes; 83 prison van; 84-94 miscellaneous freight wagons: 88 meat van, 92...
Dates:
1885
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