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Nicholas Darnell Davis collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 259
Scope and Contents
Davis had a life-long interest in the history of the West Indies and more specifically of Barbados, and this collection comprises a vast body of material gathered by him from archives in Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. He contributed many historical articles to newspapers and periodicals in British Guiana [Guyana], Barbados and the United States. His intention to compose a comprehensive history of the West Indies was frustrated by ill health. Titles and captions, including the names of...
Dates:
1752 - 1915
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Fernandez de Moratin: Arte de Putear
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7813
Scope and Contents
A seventy-six page poetic work with 23-26 lines per page. At the back of the volume is a wrapper of 'papel sellado' dated 1822. The date of the wrapper suggests that the manuscript was one of the papers used by the editor of Moratin's Obras postumas (Barcelona, 1821), although it does not appear in that edition, and is apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Maw: Carol ''Sweté Jesu'', for King's College Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9239
Scope and Contents
Maw set anonymous 13th century words 'Sweté Jesu' 'for the choir of King's College Cambridge and their conductor Stephen Cleobury'
Dates:
1992
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
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Nicholas Roscarrock: 'A Breife Regester or Alphabeticall Catalogue of such Saincts and sainte like persons as have graced our Island of Great Brittaine Ireland and other British Iselands'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3041
Scope and Contents
(fos 1-5: only fos 3-5 remaining, contents of missing leaves displayed in index at fo. 12) introductory matter; (fos 6-11) calendar of saints; index to fos 1-11 at fo. 12; (fos 13-14) notes on feasts and holy days; (fos 15-23) alphabetical table of saints in the 'Catalogue'; (fo. 24r) title page and sonnet to the reader; (fo. 24v) verse 'friendly warining to the reader'; (fo. 25) preface; (fos 1-402) lives of saints, alphabetically to Simon Sudbury. MS damaged and incomplete. Sources for...
Dates:
1622 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: A Treatise of Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3444
Scope and Contents
fo. 5: shorthand note in pencil; fo. 5v: diagram; fo. 1: 'John Hall, Bought Clerk's Sale 1833.' Text written on every other leaf, alternate leaves either carrying diagrams or left blank. Printed as pp. vii-128 of Saunderson's Method of Fluxions, London, 1756.
Dates:
1738
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2977
Scope and Contents
Notes on Sanderson's lectures in the hand of William Haswell. Includes: lectures on hydrostatics, sounds, optics (with others), mechanics, astronomy, tides, technical chronology, and the doctrine of heat and cold. With (fo. 128) copy of letter from James Bate to Hans Deveille, 3 Jan. 1726
Dates:
1725 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6312
Scope and Contents
A series of lectures on the tides and other scientific subjects delivered by Professor Saunderson, 125 folios. On fo. iv is an extract relating to Horace Walpole and Saunderson. The versos are mostly blank, but have occasional diagrams. (Fo. iv) 'T. Aynscough, Coll. Joh. Cant., 1737'; (fo. 1) 'Lectures on the Tides'; (fo. 9) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Liquors in Capillary Tubes'; (fo. 19) 'Of the Ascent and Suspension of Mercury in the Barometer'; (fo. 24) 'Of the Prolate Sphaeroidical...
Dates:
1737
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Saunderson: MS notes on his lectures on Fluxions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9772
Dates:
1730-1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nicholas Shackleton Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/3540/CLH/SHAC
Scope and Contents
Mainly a collection of medals and trophies belonging to Nicholas Shackleton and also his father, Robert Millner Shackleton. There are also several certificates, some books and a painting of Shackleton by Nick Toller (2000).
Dates:
1950 - 2006
Found in:
Clare Hall Archives
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Nicolas Eastwick: Oratio Academica
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3851
Scope and Contents
fo. 4v: dedication to Sir Anthony Mildmay. fos 2, 18v, 20v, 24: blank. Bookplate of earl of Westmoreland, 1856, inside front cover.
Dates:
1610 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nicolaus Schroeder: Commentary upon the minor Old Testament prophets, Joel to Zechariah
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2637
Scope and Contents
Except in the case of Zephaniah, each book has a title page preceding the text of the commentary, on which a later hand has added lists of published commentaries and related works on the prophet in question, published between 1747 and 1817. There is no such list for Zechariah. The ascription is to Schroeder on all such title-pages, except those for Joel and Amos.
Dates:
1780 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nigerian Troops in the Congo, circa 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043FF
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, measuring 240 x 180 mm, probably by official photographers, of the air lift of Nigerian troops to the Congo as part of the United Nations force (ONUC). The first of these went in November 1960: those serving in Kivu Province, where Kindi is situated, were the 5th Battalion and the Field Squadron. Nigerian troops served in the Congo until 1964.
Dates:
1960
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
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Nikolai Nadezhin: MS poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9514
Scope and Contents
1 volume, in a card cover, marked on spine 'NIKOLAI NADEZHIN', c.1917-46, 7 poems in Russian, 3 with titles in English. [1] Inactivity is no hindrance to the bard. [2] History of early Russia. [3] [?]. [4] 'For Helen Wells'. [5] 'For Margouska Sukhowski'. [6] For myself. [7] '1917-46'.
Dates:
1917-1946 (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
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Nilgiri [i.e. Nilagiri] Railway
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022TTTT
Scope and Contents
A leather bound album, with 26 pages, measuring 335 x 460 mm, with black and white photographs relating to the construction of the Nilgiri (or Nilagiri) Railway. The photographs were taken by Philip Boesinger of Coonor. The photographs are mounted on boards which are taped into the binding. The collection belonged to the family of Mrs Sue Prideaux, which had tea-planting connections in India.The Nilgiri Railway is part of the larger, South Indian Railway line which extends from...
Dates:
1897
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Nixon: The Papers of John Edwin Nixon
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JEN
Scope and Contents
The papers contain mainly correspondence relating to Nixon's publications and appointments, College and University business (including the vote for women's degrees) and other personal, academic and chapel-related issues including letters from Augustus Austen Leigh, Oscar Browning and George Prothero.
Dates:
1819 - 1927
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No. 218 Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] Bomber Squadron
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448M
Scope and Contents
This photograph shows a visit paid to the Squadron at R.A.F. Chedburgh by Sir Alan Burns, Governor of the Gold Coast, and Lady Burns.Sir John Shuckburgh writes:'Mention should be made to this place of the number of Bomber or Fighter Squadrons of the R.A.F. which bore Colonial names. These included Ceylon, Gold Coast and Hong Kong Squadrons, as well as others named after Malta, Jamaica, Uganda and Kenya. All such Squadrons were regular units in the R.A.F. which had either been...
Dates:
1945-07
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Noel Teulon-Porter: As I seem to remember
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8431
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of Noel Teulon-Porter, including photographs and other inserted items. There are seven volumes and an index, the latter compiled by Kenelm Foss. The first volume is prefaced by 'Corrections by Sir Robert de Z. Hall. 27th January 1957', and includes a description of Teulon-Porter's ancestry.
Dates:
1962 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Noel Turner: Account of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson's Visit to Cambridge in 1765
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3859
Dates:
1823 (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
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Non-Members
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/NM
Scope and Contents
This section contains very small collections related to famous people who are not members of King's College.
Dates:
1714 - 2013
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Nora Chadwick: letters to Jocelyn Hillgarth and his mother, Mary Hillgarth, 1960-63
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9672
Dates:
1960-1963
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
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Norfolk and Suffolk Poor Law documents
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4106
Dates:
1690-1840
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
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Norfolk Island: Outline of its history from 1788 to 1884, Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A
Scope and Contents
220 x 275 mm leather-bound book of 51 pages. The book is illustrated by one double-page and 13 full-page autotypes from original photographs, the printed surface of plates 2-14 approx. 22 x 165 mm. The reproductions are of varying quality, probably depending on that of the originals; at their best (e.g. plate 14) they are virtually indistinguishable from actual prints. They were taken and printed by Mr A. Dyer, Photo-Mechanical Operator of the Government Printing Office (see p.43). The...
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
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Norman Adrian de Bruyne: 'My Seventy-Five Years'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8872
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript of Norman de Bruyne's unpublished autobiography, 'My seventy-five years'.
Dates:
1979 (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
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Norman Del Mar: Letters to him from musicians
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9413
Scope and Contents
33 letters from composers, conductors, musicians, 1954-84.
Dates:
1954-1984
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
Northern Rhodesia papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 348
Scope and Contents
Material relating to Sugg's career in Northern Rhodesia, with some later papers.
Dates:
1910 - 1997
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