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Rolls of Parliament: transcripts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3450
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from rolls of parliament for 4-18 Edw. III Ryley signs his name at the completion of each year's transcript. fos 67v, 68, 81-2, 114, 151v, 152, 186, 228v-230: blank. on label inside front cover: 'No. 69' (in 18th cent. hand).
Dates:
1671
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rolls of Parliament: transcripts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3451
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from rolls of parliament for 20-29 Edw. III. Ryley signs his name at the completion of each year's transcript. Transcripts in another 17th cent. hand from patent rolls, 35 Hen. III, at fos 251-2. fos i, 29v-32, 74v, 94, 134, 199v, 200, 235v, 236, 253-4, ii: blank. on label inside front cover: 'No. 70' (in 18th cent. hand)
Dates:
1671
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, Singapore
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311H
Scope and Contents
Photographs show a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith (now in the custody of Mr Pastouna in Germany) that was delivered to the Governor of Singapore and used for various formal occasions. Details are provided in correspondence filed with the photographs. The subjects covered are a visit to Singapore by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and to Germany by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Dates:
1959 - 1989
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
Fonds
Ronald Barback and Nigeria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 372
Scope and Contents
These archives relate to Barback's work with the National Economic Council Joint Planning Committee and his mediation of a trade dispute between the Nigerian Railway Corporation and the Railway Technical Staff Association.
Dates:
1957 - 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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Norrish: Papers and Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8370
Scope and Contents
This small group of papers represents all that survives of the manuscript records of this distinguished chemist and Nobel Prize winner. It consists of correspondence received by Dainton and Thrush while they were working on the Royal Society memoir of Norrish, a few school and undergraduate diaries and notebooks, and some rather miscellaneous notes, drafts and correspondence. These include a complete draft for a very early (1922) unpublished paper 'Colour and Atomic Constitution ...' and...
Dates:
1912-1981 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Stansfield: Student notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8380
Scope and Contents
Student scientific notebooks.
Dates:
1934-1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Wood Paine: Photographs of Fiji, Hawaii and Vancouver Island
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8824
Scope and Contents
Photographs of people, places and flora, in numbered sequence. The first album covers Vancouver Island, Hawaii and Fiji, 1925-1926; the second Fiji, 1925-1927, 1928, 1931 and 1933-1934. The third album covers Fiji, 1927, and has additional photographs by Sandy Lees, Ken Allardyce, Lorna Reay, John Campbell, [Chapman], Charles Nott, H.S. Ladd, George Roth (Warden of Sogulu), Ronald Garvey and A.F. Lees. The numbers connected with photographs are not necessarily in the same order as they are...
Dates:
1923-1951 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rosary of the life and passion of Jesus Christ
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3016
Scope and Contents
With illustrations on each leaf of the passion, engraved on copper by 'S'. The engravings are not laid on, but are printed on the full page. A note inserted by the donor gives the opinions of a keeper of prints at the British Museum, and of E. A. Bond, of the engravings. Couplets below each cut in the volume; prayer in Flemish on verso of each leaf; final prayer (fo. 55v) dated at end: 'Finis Anno 1530 F M B'.
Dates:
1530
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rosemary Guinnell's photographs of Fletcher High School, Gwelo [i.e. Gweru]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052W
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs of Fletcher High School (now known as Gweru Boys High School?), Gweru, Zimbabwe, probably taken by Rosemary Guinnell, all with handwritten annotations by her on the reverse of each print. A note on the reverse of one print identifies the Head Master as 'Frank Davies (Welsh)', and another reads 'Learning white Anglo-Protestant values.' Seven of the prints depict a presentation of a Midsummer Night's Dream in an open-air theatre built by the pupils. The other...
Dates:
1953 - 1961
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
Management Group
Roth : papers relating to Professor Klaus Friedrich Roth, mathematician (29 October 1925 to 10 November 2015), B.A. and Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/ROTH
Scope and Contents
Roth was born in Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland and came to England with his parents in 1933. He attended St Paul's School, London, from 1939 to 1943 before coming to Peterhouse. He was appointed, as war work, an assistant master at Gordonstoun, Scotland, but came to London in 1946 to pursue research at University College London with Harold Davenport. Here he obtained first an M.Sc. and an assistant lectureship in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He was promoted to a lectureship, then a...
Dates:
1941 - 2015
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Rough subject index of a library
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5959.6
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rouse: The William Henry Denham Rouse Greek Folk Tales Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/WHDR
Dates:
1898-1942
Management Group
Routh, E. J. : Mathematical papers
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/ROUTH
Dates:
1855 - 2013
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Rowe: the papers of John Wilkinson Foster Rowe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ROW
Scope and Contents
The collection covers much of Rowe's career and includes job applications, notes, diaries, copies of lectures and copies of his publications. There are also copies of his will and codicils and obituaries.
Dates:
1919 - 1980
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Roy Drummond Whitehorn: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8901
Scope and Contents
School and Cambridge papers, 1909-19; family letters, c.1910-27; copy letters, miscellaneous letters, and correspondence in India, 1915-19; papers about Malaya, 1924-26; photographs of Malaya and India; letters and papers on his ministry, 1928-38; Westminster College papers and lecture notes, 1938-63; letters and papers as Moderator, 1949-50; University sermons, 1944-61; Presbyterian Historical Society, essays, lectures, broadcasts, and conferences; schemes of union (Presbyterian Church of...
Dates:
1910-1970 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Roy Porter: undergraduate essays marked by Quentin Skinner
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10485
Scope and Contents
Seven essays written by Roy Porter while studying for the 'Theories of the Modern State' paper for Part II of the Cambridge History Tripos during one term of the academic year 1967-68. The essays bear comments by Porter's supervisor, Quentin Skinner. Six of the essays have titles: '"In defending Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill thoroughly subverted it" - Is this a fair comment?'; 'Analyse and explain the centrality of the idea of the Common Good in [T. H.] Green's political thinking'; 'If the...
Dates:
1967 or 1968
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Roy Thorne: Opera translations
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9997
Scope and Contents
Translations into Latin of the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and of the whole text of the cantata 'Trial by Jury'. The translations have parallel texts in English. Typescript with manuscript annotations, mostly on the reverse of the letterhead of James Mahon & Company, stock and share brokers, Glasgow. Each work has a cover title sheet noting that the translation is into 'Latin elegiac verse (with some hexameters)'. With a later note on Roy Thorne and the composition of the...
Dates:
1940-2012 (start date approximate)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Royal Colonial Institute Competition Album of Indian views
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022X
Scope and Contents
An album containing sepia prints, each 200 x 150 mm. The prints show general views of Indian scenes and architecture. The cover is lettered 'Royal Colonial Institute Album Competition. Presented by the Government of India'. Inside is an inscription: 'These photographs, illustrating life and scenes in India, are presented in the hope that they will help to make the land and the people of the Indian Empire better known and understood. [signed] Atul C. Chatterjee High Commissioner for...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1928-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Royal Colonial Institute Freemasonry Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 390
Scope and Contents
A collection of books, pamphlets and ephemera relating to Freemasonry.
Dates:
1917 - 1956
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
Fonds
Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS
Scope and Contents
Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.
Dates:
-2500 - 1970-05
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
Management Group
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO
Scope and Contents
The RGO archives collection is now deposited in the University Library and consists of all the surviving historical paper records of the Royal Observatory from 1675 until circa 1980, though many later records are held and the collection accrues as material is deposited. The records are public records under the 1958 Public Records Act and are subject to the provisions of the 1958 and 1967 Acts, including the 'thirty-year rule'; at present all records created before 1992 January 01 are open...
Dates:
1675 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Royal Hospital, Dublin: Charter
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4340
Scope and Contents
Consists of 40 folios: (fo. 10) copy of the charter of the Hospital granted by King Charles II, 19 February 1684, made c. 1711; (fo. 28v) list of Governors of the Hospital; (fo. 30) annual standing charge of the Hospital, c. 1711. On the binding are the arms and crest of William Bayntun. Inside the front cover: 'J. Craven, 9th May 1810'. On fo. 1: 'W. Bayntun'.
Dates:
1711
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Royal Navy: Estimates
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5282-5334
Scope and Contents
Estimates for vessels in harbour and for building and repair work on ships of war.
Dates:
1707-1803
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Royal Navy: Mediterranean Fleet Order Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6658
Scope and Contents
Copies of orders from Admirals James Dundas and Edmund Lyons as commanders, Mediterranean Fleet, and from Admiral Houston Stewart, second-in-command of the same, with copies of related despatches, resolutions and other communications, written in three hands, 92 folios.
Dates:
1855-1856
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Royal Tour of Commonwealth 1953-54
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011EEE
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by various photographers. Captions are derived from information on the back of some photographs and from official programmes and published books on the tour.H.M. King George VI was anxious to undertake a major post-war tour of the Commonwealth, but was prevented by ill-health. It was therefore agreed that H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh would travel to East Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and they flew from London airport on the...
Dates:
1953 - 1954
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