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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Personal and Family Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8119-8123
Scope and Contents
A large part of the collection consists of correspondence with British, Continental and North American correspondents, notably Ignaz von Döllinger, Richard Simpson and Thomas Frederick Wetherell. Other correspondents include W. E. Gladstone and his family, J. H. Newman and many of the bishops associated with the minority at the First Vatican Council. There are also large groups of letters sent between Acton's immediate ancestors, and between Acton and his own family. In addition to...
Dates:
1600-1970 (circa)
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John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6145-6146
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches, verses and laws of various Cambridge societies, including the Theatrical Club. There are also autographs of members of Shrewsbury School.
Dates:
1836-1843
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John Alexander McMullen: African Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9255
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Delagoa Bay, Beira, Zanzibar, the Rift Valley, and Masai and Kikuyu, big game hunting; with commentary and a 'complete list of all the game which I killed'.
Dates:
1905-1906
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John Barrett: Historical Collections relative to Trinity College, Dublin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.707
Scope and Contents
Copied in the hand of 'Dobbs' from the manuscripts of the Revd Doctor John Barrett, vice-provost of Trinity College. Includes marginal additions by Doctor [J. H.] Todd. fos. 174-240: blank.
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Date of transcript. Original manuscripts written circa 1810.)
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File
John Bastwick: Diploma
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4139
Scope and Contents
Diploma of doctorate of medicine awarded by the University of Padua to John Bastwick, endorsed by Roderigo Fonseca, Tommaso Pioveno and Pietro Merio, 6 folios. On the verso of a paper flyleaf there is pasted a copper-plate engraving of W. Hollar's portrait of John Bastwick, probably taken from a copy of Bastwick's Declaration (1643). On the recto is a cutting from the catalogue of the J. Fuller Russell sale, June 1885, in which the manuscript was lot 89, and a note on John Bastwick by Samuel...
Dates:
1622
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John Bois: Diary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3856-3857
Scope and Contents
Original diary and transcribed extracts.
Dates:
1627-1850 (diary dated 1627 to 1640, transcription dating from 1850)
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John Borlase Warren: Journal of a Tour in France
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9321
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a tour in France, 9 October-20 November 1728, through Dieppe, Rouen, St. Germain-en-Laye, Versailles, Paris, Blois, and Angers, with descriptions of churches, palaces, gardens, statues, and fountains. The end of the tour may be missing from the description. The volume has the bookplates of a Lord Vernon and William Cavalier, Piedmont. 20pp.
Dates:
9 Oct. 1728-20 Nov. 1728
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John Bowtell: Collection of epitaphs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3865
Scope and Contents
Also includes lists of the epitaphs in the hand of T. Proctor Burroughs. fo. 364: draft of letter from Burroughs to the duke of Norfolk, undated. fo. 367: alphabetical index to epitaphs.
Dates:
1840 (dated from watermark)
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John Bowtell: History of the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3331
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of chancellors, vice-chancellors, proctors, taxors, certain professorships, preachers, and bedells. fo. 14: blank. See Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. Proceedings, 11 (1906), pp. 356-7.
Dates:
1811
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John Bowtell: Notes and extracts, chiefly regarding Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3332
Scope and Contents
Notes extend to the front cover. The hand, though Bowtell's throughout, varies greatly.
Dates:
1796 (Circa)
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John Brande Trend: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7673
Scope and Contents
Drafts of essays, translations of poetry, lectures and letters to Trend. Most of the material dates from the last decade of Trend's life.
Dates:
1930-1955 (Circa)
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