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John Branthwaite: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9327
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of a man with High Anglican leanings, with additions in other hands. The volume contains historical extracts, religious and moral treatises, accounts of cities and countries of Europe and Asia Minor, and anecdotes. At the back it reads 'Sum unus ex libris Joannis Branthwaite'. [p.1] W. Sallustius, 'The first day of the week', verse. [p.7] Table to determine truth tellers, 'Pythagoras his wheele of fortune', and other tables. [p.11] 'The reasons against subscribing the...
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Budgett: drawings of early stages of Polypterus
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9906
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Caley: indices to documents in Augmentation Office relating to the County of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7334
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Caley: Pages from Commonplace Books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9220
Scope and Contents
Disbound pages from several commonplace books, containing legal notes, transcripts, opinions, especially on tithe cases, titles to land, and liability for poor rates. The pages are accompanied by indexes, but all but two do not relate to these papers: General pages: Copy opinion, Old Stratford tolls, by John Bayley, 1832; further report on Old Stratford tolls, by W. Illingworth, 1832; investigation by Caley into whether Lincoln's Inn was liable to pay Poor Rates; examination by Caley of the...
Dates:
1800-1832 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Camp: Agricultural journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8110-8117
Scope and Contents
Agricultural journals for Wisbridge Farm, Reed, near Royston, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
1835-1868
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: Letter-book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6570
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from the Duke.
Dates:
1711-1712
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Clerke and Richard Blakewall: Readings in Clement's Inn
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8871
Scope and Contents
Readings of statute law at Clement's Inn, 1543 (Clerke)-1544 (Blakewall), in Law French, with headings in Latin.
Dates:
1543-1544
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John Couch Adams: Catalogue of his Library
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4185-4186
Dates:
1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Cox: Sermon on Psalm cxix. 71
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.52
Scope and Contents
With dedication (fo. 2) to Penelope, Lady Dynham, 16. Feb. 1655.
Dates:
1655
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Daniel Cotton: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5711
Scope and Contents
Poems transcribed in two 18th century hands, 16 folios. The works are 'Poverty', 'A pastoral essay', 'Locus apud inferos Virginibus vetulis secretos', 'Templum Hymenaei' and 'Fancy bright and winged Maid'. Outside the front cover: 'Dr Grainger', in an 18th century hand, possibly referring to James Grainger.
Dates:
1748-1750 (Circa)
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John Day: Library Catalogue
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4508
Scope and Contents
Transcript made by J.J. Green of a catalogue of books bequeathed in 1627 to John Day, son of Lionel Day, by John Day the divine, 29 folios. The books were probably for the most part from the library of John Day the printer. On fos 1-3 are notes on a manuscript commonplace book of Lionel Day (Phillipps MS 2404), which was in the possession of J.J. Green in 1906. On fos 23 and 24 are further notes on Lionel Day and his family, and on fos 25-28 notes on the printer John Day and his family.
Dates:
1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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John de Mauston to J. Cockerel, Bapton, Wiltshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.754
Dates:
1373
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Denton: Commonplace Books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9205-9206
Dates:
1849-1903 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Desmond Bernal: Scientific and Personal Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8287
Scope and Contents
John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971) was born on 10 May 1901. He attended Cambridge University, 1919-1923, before working in the Davy Faraday Laboratory, London, 1923-1927. He was appointed Lecturer in Structural Crystallography at Cambridge in 1927, and Assistant Director of Research in Crystallography, Cambridge, 1934. He was made Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, in January 1938. During the War Bernal worked in the Ministry of Security, as a member of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1911-1977; 1795; 1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Section R (previously restricted) was opened to readers in 2021.
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Cambridge University Library
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John Donald Photograph Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031O
Scope and Contents
326 photographs of varying formats, many uncaptioned. The earliest photographs document James Donald’s life in Malaya during the 1920s, and include images of the Perak River Estate where he first worked, the Torkington Estate, the Batu Anan Club, and friends, colleagues, travel and recreational activities, including the Lower Perak Football Team of 1923. The bulk of the collection records the family’s years on the Arcadia Estate, and especially the period from John Donald’s birth in...
Dates:
1920 - 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Donne and others: Sermons, etc.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8469
Scope and Contents
The volume contains 26 items, in different hands and on different sizes of paper, many anonymous. There are eight sermons by John Donne, and others by Thomas Moore and Josias Shute. There is also a Latin letter from Thomas Egerton to his father John, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and some geographical material. The volume has the Bridgewater crest and the bookplate of the Bridgewater Library.
Dates:
1600-1640 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Donne and William Strode: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8470
Scope and Contents
A manuscript collection of poems mainly by John Donne and William Strode. On the flyleaf are the signatures of Edward Hyde (1607-1659) and Robert Walker. The volume has the bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Many of the pages are unused.
Dates:
1635 (Circa)
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John Donne: Poems and leaves
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8466-8468
Scope and Contents
Two leaves in Latin and two volumes in English
Dates:
c 1620-1633
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John Donne: Poems, elegies and meditations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.29
Scope and Contents
In 5 hands (not autograph).
Dates:
1640 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Dovaston: 'Poems by W. Shenstone Esqr and Others'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8289
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems and prose by William Shenstone, Henry Jones and others, written in the hand of John Dovaston and with illustrations by him. Most of the texts are apparently from printed sources, from which there are many deviations. Contents: Front pastedown: Nursery Library bookplate of John Freeman Milward Dovaston, printed in brown ink [i-ii] blank [iii r] ownership inscription, date (1765), note of price paid, 'M:S Poems by William Shenstone Esqr and Others', epigraph "So we thro'...
Dates:
1765-1779 (a later terminal date is possible)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Dowie: ''Studies in New Zealand Investment 1871-1900''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8358
Scope and Contents
'Studies in New Zealand investment, 1871-1900', a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Australian National University, 346 pages: Part A. A quantative study of capital formation in New Zealand, 1871-1900. Part B. A study of the relations of the Australian and New Zealand economies, 1871-1900. Part C. An institutional study of railway investment in New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. At the front of the volume is a covering letter from N.G. Butlin, 21 February 1983, Professor of Economic...
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Durie: Papers concerning proposals for the union of churches,
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2658
Scope and Contents
Various hands, including that of Durie.
Dates:
1669-1673
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Edward Bickersteth Mayor: Historical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6670-6671
Scope and Contents
Historical notes, mostly connected to Cambridge and Oxford Universities
Dates:
1875 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Edwards: Fragment of a discourse against the Church of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.58
Scope and Contents
Apparently being prepared for the press at the author's death. Autograph.
Dates:
1715 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Ehrman: Letters to Anthony Smith about Pitt the Younger
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9975
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning an article co-authored by Enrman and Smith for the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. Includes letters from Colin Matthew, the editor of the dictionary, and other correspondence concerning the article. Alos includes various drafts.
Dates:
1983-2007
Conditions Governing Access:
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