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Transfer, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4019
Scope and Contents
In accordance with the will of the late John Hesewell of Cambridge, burgess, John Dyxster of Gyrton [Girton, Cambridgeshire] and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Taylour, son of Henry Taylour, brother of John Taylour - the said Thomas of late holding the property in trust for Hesewell - convey ['dimisimus tradidimus liberavimus et hac presenti carta nostra confirmavimus'] to Nicholas Worlaye, citizen and goldsmith of London, Thomas Recheford, citizen and grocer, George...
Dates:
13 Jan. 1513 (4 Henry VIII)
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Transfer of mortgage, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2944
Dates:
1878
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Fonds
Transfer of mortgage, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2502
Dates:
1866
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File
Translation by E.B. Cowell of Ellis Wynne's Gwelidigaethan y Bardd Cwsg ('Visions of the sleeping Bard')
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4225
Dates:
1873 (Circa)
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Fonds
Translation into Icelandic of Old Testament Prophets and Maccabees
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10071
Dates:
1575
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Translation of Anglo-Saxon laws
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1029
Scope and Contents
'Sketch of a plan for a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon laws etc.', unsigned.
Dates:
1820 (Circa)
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Translation of Aristotle's Historia Animalium into English
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3081
Scope and Contents
(fo. 1) title in English; (fo. i) preface; (fo. xix) summary of contents; (fo. 1) text; (fo. 1) notes in English and Greek; (fo. 216) index to notes. The translation has evidently been prepared for the press, but was never printed.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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Translation of J.J. Fux 'Gradus ad Parnassum'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3845
Scope and Contents
Translation of sections on double counterpoint (pp. 139-57 of the 1742 Leipzig edition, with (fo. 8v) copy of title-page from 1725 edition, and (fos 9v-22) series of engraved plates numbered 30 to 56, taken from the same and here pasted in). fo. 1v: list of works of J. C. Heck.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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File
Translation of the poems of Llynwarch Owain Gwalchmai by Llynwarch O. Reynolds
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4200
Scope and Contents
Includes: (fo. i) title-page; (fo. iv) note on Gwalchmai's descent; (fo. ii) list of contents; (fo. 1) note on the text; (fo. 3) text of the translation, with footnotes; (fo. 46) index of names. Attached to fo. ii is a letter from Reynolds to E.B. Cowell, 2 October 1882.
Dates:
1882
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Translation of W.O. Focke, ''Synopsis ruborum Germainiae''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9679
Scope and Contents
Translation of Focke's work, which was originally published by the Bremen Society of Natural History in 1877. Pasted into the back of the volume is a letter from Charles Bailey to Prof. C. C. Babington, discussing how he had the work translated, and copies of that translation made. This notes that he requested a 'literal translation', without any 'attempt to polish up the sentences so that they may read better'.
Dates:
1888 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Transport in Fiji
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091G
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs illustrating a typescript thesis 'Transport in Fiji' by W.A.T Bowles submitted to the Institute of Transport in November 1969. The prints vary in size from 175 x 125 to 195 x 245 mm. Numbers 6, 9, 20-21, 23-25, 28-43, 46, 49-50 are by W.A.T. Bowles; numbers 2 & 3 by Nitin Lal, Fiji Visitors Bureau; numbers 4-5, 7-, 10, 12-13, 18-19, 45, 47-48, 52-55 by Rob Wright, Public Relations Office; number 26 by the Public Relations Officer; 14-15 and probably 16 by...
Dates:
1969
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Transvaal Annexation Commission
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055H
Scope and Contents
142 x 101 mm. A cabinet print with identifying captions on the reverse. The print is a permanent photograph of some kind but the precise process has not been identified. The print shows a formally posed group portrait of Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his staff during the annexation of the Transvaal in April 1877. The attribution of this photograph to H.F. Gros is from Rider Haggard's ‘The days of my life' (2 vols. London 1926) where a photograph of the group (Vol. I, facing p.73), taken...
Dates:
1877
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Travel diaries of George Williams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 53
Scope and Contents
Diaries of visits made by George Williams to Canada, North Africa and the Middle East, with correspondence regarding the Williams family and the gift of the collection to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1921 - 1986
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Travel diaries of Marjory Warren
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 51
Scope and Contents
Illustrated diaries of Dr Warren's travels in Europe, Northern America and Morocco.
Dates:
1927 - 1951
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Travels in South Asia and Australia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3024A
Scope and Contents
The album contains a mixture of original photographs, hand-coloured postcards and clippings. Most have manuscript or printed captions. Subjects include travel, hunting, scenes of natural beauty, natural products, and notable places or buildings.
Dates:
1904
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File
Treasury Order for the purchase of Bishop John Moore's Library
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4357
Scope and Contents
Order of the Treasury Commissioners for the payment of £6400 to Samuel Clarke, D.D., executor of John Moore, bishop of Ely, for the purchase of Bishop Moore's library, 24 October 1715, signed by Sir R. Walpole, Earl of Orford, D. Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, and T. Newport, Lord Torrington, 2 folios. The order is endorsed by the Earl of Denbigh and the Earl of Halifax. On fo. 1v is the receipt signed by Samuel Clarke, 9 November 1715, and witnessed by William Ireland. The order is accompanied...
Dates:
1715-1905
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Treatise Against an Opponent of Newton
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8874
Scope and Contents
A defence of Sir Isaac Newton against the attack of George Gordon, made in Gordon's Remarks on the Newtonian philosophy, as propos'd by Sir Isaac Newton, in his Principia naturalis, and by Dr. Gregory, in his Principia astronomiae physicae (London, 1719). The treatise (47 pages) contains an examination of several of Newton's propositions, and Gordon's contradictions, with regard to centripetal forces, friction, projectile motion and gravity.
Dates:
1720 (circa)
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Fonds
Treatise of the Plantation of Idolatrous Religion etc.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5961
Scope and Contents
Seven hands. (p. 1) 'An historical treatise of the plantation of Idolatrous religion here in England and of the first preaching of the gospel; Of the building and endowment pf christian Churches and provision made for the maintenance of Priests and Ministers to Attend the Service of God in them.' Unprinted; (p. 113) 'An Historical Treatise of Sacrilege and of the misfortune and evil that cometh thereby.' Unprinted; (p. 135) blank. The book had been prepared to contain some account of English...
Dates:
1700-1804 (circa)
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File
Treatise on Prayer
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6265
Scope and Contents
In shorthand, 155 folios: (fo. 1) 'John Barrow Holker in Cartmel 1819'; (fo. 3) drawing of a woman, bareheaded, seated on an upturned basket, perusing a book, with a church, hills and a tree in the background, and a border of hops; (fo. 4) text. On a fly-leaf: 'John Barrow Holker Cartmel'. On a label affixed inside the front cover: 'John Barrow, Hole of Ellel, Holker'.
Dates:
1819
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File
Treatise on public finance in Brabant
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4453
Scope and Contents
'Les regles en matière des charges publiques'.
Dates:
1708 (Circa)
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File
Treatise on Respiratory and other Diseases
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6856
Scope and Contents
Latin treatise on respiratory and other diseases, fos 1-25. There is a list of contents on fo. ii which is partly torn away. At the foot of this is the name 'Arthur Holl[ingworth]', and on fo. 43 in the same hand is 'Arthur Hollingworth P.tuo', below which, in a different hand, is 'Rowland Freeman 1705'. It is not clear if Hollingworth is the author or the scribe. After the treatise, in the same hand, are 'Clavis verborum omnium in Chymia', Latin and English explanations of chemical symbols...
Dates:
1703 (Circa)
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File
Treatise on the Sacraments
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6177
Scope and Contents
Incomplete treatise on the sacraments, beginning 'To prove the Reall presence of Christs body'.
Dates:
1625 (Circa)
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Treatises on Fortification and Practical Geometry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8906-8907
Scope and Contents
Uniformly bound volumes, both stamped with the arms of the Arborio family of Savoy.
Dates:
1675 (Circa)
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Fonds
Trevor Newton: poems and letters to Sir Geoffrey Keynes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10346
Scope and Contents
'The Brinkley knight or A schollar in Arcady being a poeticall tribute addressed to: Sir Geoffy. Keynes of Lammas House: in the countie of Cambridgeshire conceiv'd and compos'd by Trevor Newton MCMLXXIX' (sewn booklet with illustrations); 'Flora's festival being a tributary ode: compos'd upon the occasion of the 93rd birth-day of Sr. Geoffy. Keynes by T. P. Newton Esq 1980' (sewn booklet with illustrations); 'Apologia acrostica or The penitent poet being a sort of sonnet compos'd upon the...
Dates:
1979 - 1981
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Fonds
Trinidad
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3075F
Scope and Contents
An album containing photographs measuring 90 x 65 mm., inserted four to a page, with four unused spaces. Four (8/8A, 26/43, 31/38 and 51/52) are duplicates. The clothes and aeroplane shown in 45 and 47 suggest a date about 1930. The majority of the photographs are landscapes and general scenes, and as 3-6, 8-9, 11, 13-15, 18, 21-22, 26, 30-32, 34-35, 37-40, 43 have ‘Trinidad’ printed with the photograph - 5 and 11 also have titled - it seems probable that most of the collection was...
Dates:
1930
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library