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Jeffrey Charles Percy Miller: mathematical tables
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10268
Scope and Contents
Mathematical tables and equations.
Dates:
c. 1940
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J.E.K. Aggrey and A.G. Fraser
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448S
Scope and Contents
A print, measuring 205 x 255 mm, from a negative made from glass in the Church Missionary Society collection (which was given to the RCS Library in 1988). Two same size (one reversed) and three smaller copies are included in this collection. This appears to be the only photograph of the two men together (apart from larger groups) and is thus of particular interest.Alexander Garden Fraser (1873-1962) was the first Principal (1924-1935) of Achimota College in the Gold Coast, and...
Dates:
1924 - 1927
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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
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Jeremy Hilton: literary papers and correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10154
Scope and Contents
The collection includes drafts and versions of poetry and prose by Hilton; notebooks, including juvenilia; papers relating to his time as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge; general literary corrrespondence; and printed material.
Dates:
1950s-2020s
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is 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.
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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
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Jessie Crum: Travel Diary and Notes on Greece
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9312
Scope and Contents
Notebook of a tour of Greece, 24 March-16 April 1901, with many archaeological sketches; a book of photographs of Greek pottery, with later notes for her memoirs; and a typescript by Jean M. Pace (daughter), 'Letters to Jessie', 1992.
Dates:
1901-1992
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Jessie, Lady Anderson: Letters of her Family and Friends
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7649
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous letters from distinguished persons, preserved as part of an autograph collection by Lady Anderson, wife of Sir Hugh Anderson. About half are to the Anderson family, the rest were acquired from friends. They are arranged alphabetically within each group by writer.
Dates:
1796-1954
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J.H. Crosby: Papers on Cambridgeshire and Ely
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6380-6395
Scope and Contents
Comprises copies of various court rolls and other primary material on the history of Ely and Cambridgeshire, together with notes made by J.H. Crosby.
Dates:
1885-1923 (Circa)
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J.H. Hessels: Incunabula of Thomas Grenville
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4324
Scope and Contents
An index of the incunabala in the collection of Thomas Grenville, compiled by J.H. Hessels, 59 folios. The versos are mostly blank.
Dates:
1870 (Circa)
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Jim Chaplin slide collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022WWWW
Scope and Contents
Chaplin took many slides between 1957 and 1966, in Africa, Asia, and Europe. His Asian collection, stored here, is in a small filing cabinet of four drawers (three for India, one for India plus a journey to turkey), mostly uncaptioned. There is also a small box of twenty nine (uncaptioned) slides. Accompanying the collection is a micro floppy disk (filemaker PRO 2.1 for Apple Mac) entitled 'Chaplin slide collection - African section.' and also a CD-Rom which may contain an excel list of...
Dates:
1957 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Jim McCue: The Shakespeare Concordance
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8830
Scope and Contents
'The Shakespeare Concordance', an entry for the Charles Oldham Memorial Shakespeare Scholarship, 1984.
Dates:
1984
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.J.R. Smythe: Correspondence and papers re engineering in South Africa 1889-1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9504
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers, including memoirs of life and work in South AfricaIndexALFORD, SAMUEL. Patent agreement (1903) Add.9504/B/1ANDERSSON, CHARLES LLEWELLYN. Patent agreement (1903) Add.9504/B/1ANGOLA. Benguela-Katanga Railway. Photographs (c.1901) Add.9504/H/1-15BENGUELA-KATANGA RAILWAY. Photographs (c.1901); newspaper cuttings (c.1901) Add.9504/H/1-15, Add.9504/H/16-18BETTINGTON MILL (South Africa). Three joined photographs (n.d.)...
Dates:
1889-1931
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joan Joly: Book on the Parnell Family
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8807
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a book entitled 'Fling back the gates: the story of the Parnells', a family history from Norman times to the present day.
Dates:
1985 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joanne Limburg Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9977
Scope and Contents
Sections 1-3 consist of drafts of poems by Joanne Limburg, accessioned in 2012. They are mostly word-processed or typescript, with and without manuscript annotations, and some wholly manuscript. Many files contain notes apparently made as part of the compositional process, and other documents of various kinds occur in the files, often on the reverse of the drafts or notes. The titles of many of the poems were altered in the course of writing. Some of the drafts were created in Stanmore,...
Dates:
1991-2017
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joannes Wilmet: Adversaria
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.96
Scope and Contents
A series of notes and references upon a variety of names and subjects, Semitic, classical, arranged alphabetically.
Dates:
1786 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joannes Wilmet: Adversaria Biblica
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.94
Scope and Contents
A series of critical notes upon various Biblical texts.
Dates:
1773-1806
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joannes Wilmet: Adversaria Theologica and Homiletica
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.95
Scope and Contents
A series of theological notes arranged under headings in alphabetical order.
Dates:
1770 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Jocelynn Gibson: Collections on Cambridge Connections with New England in 17th century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8241
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript papers on Cambridge University's connections with New England in the seventeenth century. The bulk of the material is comprised of entries on Cambridge men and their families. There are also lists and tables of Cambridge and Harvard graduates, towns in New England, etc.; a bibliography of published sources; and extracts from published works.
Dates:
1950-1970 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Johann Georg Graevius: Animadversiones ad Petavii
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6754
Scope and Contents
Notes on a series of lectures given by J.G. Graevius on two chronological tables taken from works of D. Pétau.
Dates:
1697
Conditions Governing Access:
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Johann Jacob Grynaeus: Sayings of Saint Jerome
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6653
Scope and Contents
'Sententiae ex D. Hieronimo collectae', 42 folios: fo. 2: quotation from Xenophon's Cyropedia; fo. 4: title and date; fo. 5: quotations from Saint Jerome. At the head of each set is the title of the epistle or other work from which the quotations are taken. On fo. 2 is a stamp with a coat of arms, 'Bibliotheca Rilliana', and the number 45 (?) in a circle. The reference may be to the Rilli family of Florence.
Dates:
1565
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File
Johann Reuchlin: De Arte Cabalistica
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4519
Scope and Contents
Translation of book I, 30 folios. Leaves 3-4 are misbound after leaf 30, as are leaves 17-22 after leaf 4. The surviving text corresponds to p. [A iv verso] l.2 - p. XXI l.2 in the first edition, Hagenan 1517. Blank spaces have been left in the text where Hebrew passages occur, and the Hebrew characters have been faintly pencilled in. There are the remains of an ornate title page at the beginning.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Johannes Fredericus Gronovius: Phraseologia Liviana
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6414
Scope and Contents
A collection of phrases found in the works of Livy arranged in alphabetical order and followed by references, 112 folios. The original entries were written for the most part on the recto and verso of alternate leaves. A second hand has added in the intervening spaces a number of additional entries. On fo. 1 are the words 'Biblioteca Iliantariana MSS p. 48'.
Dates:
1678-1679 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John, 1st Baron Acton: Letters to him concerning the Cambridge Modern History
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6443
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters to Lord Acton, nearly all relating to the Cambridge Modern History. The principal correspondent is his co-editor W.A.J. Archbold; the remainder are for the most part potential or actual contributors to the History, replying to Acton's invitations to take part or writing about their contributions. Appended are a further letter of A.W. Ward, 1914, and one of Herbert Butterfield, 1964, relating to the collection, and a few miscellaneous papers. 291 items.
Dates:
1896-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Abercromby Alexander: Papers on trees and woods
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 7
Scope and Contents
Tables, articles and other material regarding trees and woods in Ceylon, Fiji and New Zealand, and in general.
Dates:
1888-03-29 - 1925-06-10
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4607-5021
Scope and Contents
1. Family papers The papers contain material relating to the Actons of Naples: Commodore John Acton, his nephew J.F.E. Acton and H. Acton, a midshipman; material concerning the Dalberg family, particularly the family property on the Rhine, at Herrnsheim; a few manuscripts relating to Lord Granville; and the 1st Lord Acton's personal papers, including those covering his early years, his parliamentary career and interest in Ireland, relations with his family, and the period of his life spent...
Dates:
c. 1650 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library