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File
Truth Displayed or the Tables Turned
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4514
Scope and Contents
'Truth Displayd or the Tables turned by a Welwisher to the Mathematicks and a Lover of old England Anno Libertatis Angliae 0000', c. 1720, 10 folios. Attached at the beginning is a memorandum on the manuscript by T.G. Crippen, which includes the following: 'This MS. is a venomous attack on the contemporary Chancellor of the Exechequer, Aislabie soon after the South Sea Bubble. It charges him with enriching himself at the public expense. Whether or not it is a transcript from a printed tract...
Dates:
1720-1910 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Tune-book for metrical psalms (Addington, 8th edition) with MS additions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8980
Scope and Contents
Stephen Addington, 'A collection of psalm tunes for publick worship, adapted to Dr. Watt's psalms and hymns', (probably) 8th edition, with 8th edition supplement. Lacks title page; inside front board, signatures 'John Callaway', 'Joseph Callaway', 'Welcome Hill'; inside back board, 'Josh Callaway Rowley House'. From p.187, MS additions, named hymn tunes.
Dates:
1788 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Turing: The Papers of Alan Mathison Turing
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/AMT
Scope and Contents
The papers contain published and unpublished writings by AMT, off-prints of articles by AMT and by other authors with annotations by AMT, his Fellowship Dissertation, and correspondence.Most of the papers in Sections B, C, and D refer to AMT’s work from c. 1940 until his death in 1954. There are a few references in the correspondence to his work in the 1930s, but no remaining drafts or working papers. During the Second World War, AMT worked at the Code and Cypher School at Bletchley...
Dates:
1917 - 2016
Fonds
Turnbull Collection on Tanganyika 1958-1962
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469E
Scope and Contents
For the most part the photographs relate to Turnbull's post as Governor-General and a return visit in 1971, but there are also some historical photographs extending back in some cases to the German period (see plates 170-220). Most items in the collection were taken by official photographers in Tanganyika or by the East African Railways and Harbours. Some have official descriptions on the back; others have been carefully identified by Sir Richard and Lady Turnbull, usually with the names...
Dates:
1958 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Turner Cooper: Twenty-five years experience of a land-drainer
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8093
Scope and Contents
A typescript description of Cooper's experiences in land drainage, 57 pages.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Tutors and the Tutorial Office
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/T
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to College Teaching Associates and Directors of Studies where they do not hold a Fellowship within the College.
Dates:
1748 - 2017
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Two fragments taken from binding apparently dealing with sums of money owing to the town, Gheordowoert, Flanders
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.578
Scope and Contents
Subscribed by A. Vheyder.
Dates:
11 June 1574 (Possibly January??)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Collection
Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd-Qq/western/post-medieval
Scope and Contents
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1530 - 1850
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Two letters from unidentified parties, one addressed to John Rennie
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.6
Scope and Contents
Contemporary copies
Dates:
1 April 1813
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
'Two Machines to make Sun Dials', with further notes on sundials
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.1
Dates:
1650 (Circa. Written in a seventeenth century hand.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Two Treatises on Tithe and Sacrilege
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5960
Scope and Contents
A short collection of arguments to prove that tithes bee due to the word and law of godÂ
Dates:
1623-1626
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Two views of Bridgetown, Barbados, circa 1880
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3072C
Scope and Contents
Collection comprising albumen prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 235 x 190mm, with handwritten captions beneath the prints. They originally appear to have been mounted in an album from which they have been extracted. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Tymms collection on civil aviation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20
Scope and Contents
Papers, photographs and cinefilms from Tymms' life and his work in civil aviation.
Dates:
1886 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Typescript copies of letters from Erasmus Alvey Darwin to Frances Wedgwood
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10260
Scope and Contents
Typescript copies of approximately 150 letters from Erasmus Darwin, brother of Charles Robert (1809-1882), naturalist, geologist and originator of the theory of natural selection, to Frances (Fanny) Wedgwood (1800-1889), wife of Hensleigh Wedgwood (1803-1891), etymologist, philologist and barrister and cousin of Charles, including mentions of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), historian and essayist, as well as family matters. Also included are some 'rough notes' by Leonard Darwin (son of Charles)...
Dates:
1836-1881
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Typescript English translation of parts of N. M. Stelling-Dekker's "Die Sporogenen Hefen", Teil I
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9683
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from M. Ingram to W. J. Dowson donating the item to the Botany School library. Item translated by M. Ingram, Low Temperature Research Station, Cambridge, November 1948.
Original text:
Stelling-Dekker, N.M. 1931. Die sporogenen Hefen. Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde. 28:1-547
Dates:
1948-1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Typescripts included in assembled offprints and photocopies, otherwise of printed material.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/Pet.695.50 (6.1, 29, 35)
Dates:
1950 - 1984
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Udaipur
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022II
Scope and Contents
Collection of silver prints, originally in an album. No date or other details are known of the origin of the album. The photographs, of high quality, were taken by K.L. Syed, State Photographer, Palanpur, and show scenes in Udaipur, but there are no captions. Each print has a number preceded by 'V' on the back. Collections of photographs and published works have been used to caption these views of the complex of magnificent palaces and other buildings of and adjoining the Pichola lake,...
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Uganda (Architectural features)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045Q
Scope and Contents
Collection of images of government buildings, His Majesty's High Court and cathedrals in Uganda. The collection was given to the RCS library by the Central Office of Information, therefore, presumably, they were also the photographer.
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Uganda letters of Lucy Clare Latham
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 168
Scope and Contents
Seventeen manuscript letters from Uganda sent mostly to Miss Diana Hartley, 1950-1959. The letters include the day and month, but not the year that they were written. This has been added when it is indicated by a postmark or internal evidence. The letters are accompanied by a photocopy of an appreciation written on Latham's retirement in 1959.
Dates:
1950 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Uganda Mission history
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 164
Scope and Contents
The history of the Uganda Mission of the Church Missionary Society from its inception in 1876 to the Jubilee Year in 1927 (266 loose pages). There is much in his history concerning the exploits of Bruce, Speke, Baker, Grant, Stanley and other missionaries and explorers. Accompanying this material are fifteen xerox pages of notes and a list of names compiled by G.K. Baskerville, reconstructing the early Church Missionary Society baptismal records which were lost at Natete in 1888. It was...
Dates:
1876 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ugandan envoys to England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045E
Scope and Contents
Three cabinet portraits, approximately 105 x 150 mm, with letterpress captions on the mounts beneath the prints. King Mutesa I of Buganda requested the Church Missionary Society to take the three envoys seen here on a mission to Queen Victoria, with what expected result is not entirely clear. The three men left with missionaries Wilson and Felkin on May 17th 1879. On arrival in England, they were granted an audience with Queen Victoria and were duly impressed with the size and grandeur of...
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ugandan Independence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045V
Scope and Contents
Fourteen captioned 152 x 103 mm. colour photographs taken by Michael Lee illustrating celebrations held in Kampala to mark Uganda's independence. They include views of the procession, independence shields, Makerere College, Kampala City Hall, and the ceremony at Kololo stadium attended by the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
Dates:
1962-10-09
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ulick R. Evans: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8352
Scope and Contents
The papers and correspondence consist of a small amount of biographical and personal material, some materials related to and documenting Evans's research, a small selection of non-scientific writing, and correspondence.
Dates:
1900 (20th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ulric Nisbet: Diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8430
Scope and Contents
1. Typescript forewords to 'Bridge of years' and 'Return to Ithaca'. 2-10. 'Bridge of years', vols I-VI, and 'Return to Ithaca', nos 1 and 2, typescript 'diaries of an untaught mystic', 1932-1962, with inserted photographs. 11. Hugh Callaway, The new consciousness (alternative to chaos) (1971), printed.
Dates:
1932-1971
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ulster poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3085
Scope and Contents
Plus other related material in four notebooks, now bound together, c. 1746-1832. Several hands. I. Ulster poems in hand of Art MacBinighacht [Arthur Bennett], 1831-2, including poems by Seamus Mac Cuarta Aodh Mac Gabhrain, Art Mac Binighacht, Peadar O'Durnnin Padrug Mac Allindun Art Mac Cubhaidh Niall og Mac Murcadha, several available in printed versions. II. Fenian poems and miscellaneous notes in hand of Matthias Mac Gill, mostly dated 1746-50. Many differ markedly from printed versions....
Dates:
1746-1832 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library