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Book of Psalms
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6181
Scope and Contents
Book of Psalms in shorthand, with a note at the front identifying the owner as John Chantlor.
Dates:
1670 (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
Fonds
Book of Religious Treatise and Sermons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8854
Scope and Contents
The volume is signed 'John Archer' and inscribed 'John Archer his booke witnesse Thomas Mounteneys'. The front of volume contains a 'A treatise upon heaven', circa 17th century, written in two or possibly three different hands, which do not resemble that used by John Archer for his signature. From the back of the volume, pp. 1-90, runs 'Mr. Jeffery his sermons upon the 84 Psalme prached [sic] at Trinity Church in Cambridge Anno Dom: 1619', and pp. 91-96 (unnumbered), 'Mr. Jeffery upon...
Dates:
1650 (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
Fonds
Book of sermon extracts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10052
Scope and Contents
Collection of sermon abstracts and notes made by an anonymous compiler: 136 evangelical sermons by members of John Newton's circle delivered in London churches and chapels between March and June 1800. Abstracts are numbered 59 to 195, suggesting an earlier notebook
Dates:
1800
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
Boosé Scrapbooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011YY
Scope and Contents
A collection of scrapbooks containing press cuttings, correspondance, photographs, tickets, invitations, menus and programmes.
Dates:
1912 - 1922
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
Booth of Duke Street, London, booksellers: papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9650
Dates:
1700-1899 (18th century to 19th century)
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
Boris Liapounov: Memoir of Aleksandr Liapounov
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6656
Scope and Contents
Sketch of the life and work of A. M. Liapounov by B.M. Lyapunov, which appeared in the Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1930, with related works, translated into English by A. J. Pressland, 89 folios: (fo. 1) the Russian Academy sketch; (fo. 46) lecture by A. M. Liapunov 'On the form of celestial bodies'; (fo. 77) obituary notice for Liapounov. Contributors include A. J. Pressland.
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 337
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Elizabeth O'Kelly in Borneo and photographs from her time on the island. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. There are 27 letters, written from Kuching and Tarat, dating from 29 March 1962 to 16 February 1965. They are concerned principally with the background to the establishment of the Sarawak Federation of Women's Institutes, but also cover people and places of Borneo, the advent of Independence, the situation in Indonesia, the rebellion in...
Dates:
2004
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
Bossier : correspondence and papers.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/BOSSIER
Scope and Contents
For excerpts and a brief account of Bossier see J[onathan] P[hilip] P[arry] in 'Peterhouse: a record, 1986-87', pp. 40-46.
Dates:
1910 - 1915
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Boston Church, Lincolnshire: library catalogue
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.2
Scope and Contents
Catalogue compiled by Albert Evan Bernays, written in hand of Ellen Bernays. With postcard from Ellen Bernays to Francis Jenkinson, University Librarian, 21 June 1918.
Dates:
1893 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Botanical correspondence of F.K. Eagle: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8184
Scope and Contents
Eagle was a keen botanist, with a particular interest in mosses and lichens, which are the subject of most of the present correspondence. After Eagle's death his collection of mosses was bought by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, of Barton Hall near Bury (Add.8184/42). Some or all of Eagle's botanical correspondence seems to have passed to his fellow Bury botanist, Edmund Skepper (1825-67). Skepper's widow gave the letters of William Wilson listed below (and probably also the...
Dates:
1800 (Mid-19th century)
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
Botanical notebook of Mr Thomas Hugo of Taunton, Somerset
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9690
Scope and Contents
Mainly sketches of fungi, with some sketches of flowering plants, and some notes on both.
Dates:
1838-1873
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
Bowater Sanderson: Naval Journal
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9516
Scope and Contents
The journal (c. 305 pages) begins in September 1747, describing the voyage out to India, and concludes with the return of Royal Duke to England on 5 June 1750. The volume includes navigational exercises, transcribed sailing directions and pencil landfalls, and a sketch of the British settlement at Oriocopong.
Dates:
1747-1750
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
Bradshaw: The Papers of Henry Bradshaw
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BRA
Scope and Contents
This collection contains mainly correspondence, with a few papers relating to Bradshaw's work at the University Library and King's College, and a small handful of family papers.
Dates:
1817 - 2022
Fonds
Braithwaite: The Papers of Richard Bevan Braithwaite
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RBB
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of notes and lectures, an album of cuttings of early published articles, typescript pieces, and some letters received from journal editors.
Dates:
1919-04-25 - 1984-11-08
Fonds
Brereton: The Papers of Joseph Lloyd Brereton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/BRE
Scope and Contents
Documents and correpondence relating to the educational activities of Prebendary Joseph Lloyd Brereton, founder of Cavendish College, Cambridge (1873 to 1892) which later became Homerton College (1894). The collection includes a selection of sources for the history of Cavendish College as well as records of Brereton's scheme for the education of girls through the Graduated County Schools Association. The Association was in existence between 1881 and 1887 to enable self-supporting schools...
Dates:
1850 - 1901
Found in:
Homerton College Archive
Fonds
Bressy family, Willaston, Cheshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.709
Dates:
1615
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
File
Breve e chiara Idea del regno di Napoli
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4441
Scope and Contents
Prepared for the Comte de Daun, Viceroy of Naples.
Dates:
1707
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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Breviary on the State of the Roman Church
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6325
Scope and Contents
Michael Dalton, 'Breviary on the state of the Roman Church', an unprinted fifth-monarchist tract describing events from the foundation of Christianity to the 'discovery of anti-christ' in the 16th century, 88 folios: (fo. 2) title page; (fo. 3) text, beginning 'The 4th Monarchy (videlicet of the Romans)', and ending 'have the first place,&voyce etc.'; (fo. 86v) index; (fo. 88) list of papal schisms.
Dates:
1634
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
Brian Mull Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 411
Content Description
Comprises a navigator's log and news cuttings relating to motor rally racing in East Africa in 1969. Together with a seperate small collection of news cuttings, publications and a school magazine, 'The Daily Drum', created by the Virginia Mull, daughter of Brian Mull, while a student. There are a handful of references relating to Mull's career as a teacher. John Brian Mull (1919-1975) was posted to Tanganyika (Tanzania) in 1950 as an Education Officer (Science) by the British Overseas Civil...
Dates:
1951 - 1969
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Brian Price: Bellringing diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10049
Dates:
1943-1962
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
Brian Wormald Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10283
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers relate to Wormald's academic career; in particular, there are loose notes and notebooks relating to his teaching and lecturing, and research notes and assorted drafts relating to his two major pieces of published work . There are very few personal papers or correspondence.
Dates:
1925-2001
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
Brickyard accounts, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4000
Scope and Contents
'Lady Pells & Albert Pells Brick Book in account with John Poole'. Rough accounts for bricks and tiles. In bound notebook, several loose sheets enclosed.
Dates:
1845-1847
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
Brisbane
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085U
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs measuring mainly 90 x 63 mm. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1950 - 1999
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
Brisbane illustrated: A series of twelve views of some of the principal public buildings and scenery of the city
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085C
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced album with printed title page and captions. Photographed and published by George P Wright, James Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Dates:
1875
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
Brisbane; riverside scene with crowd assembled at landing point
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085X
Scope and Contents
245 x 195 mm. This sepia print has Brisbane in pencil on the back, but is otherwise unidentified. The costume suggests a date in the late 1880s.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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