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Fonds
Cambridge University Tory True Blue Club: Minutes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5996
Scope and Contents
On the fly-leaf is a rough list of contents and on fo. 186 an index to club dinners. Fos 171-185 are blank, as are the versos, except for occasional notes.
Dates:
1828-1830
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cambridge University: Verses presented to Queen Elizabeth
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8915
Scope and Contents
'Orationes & Carmina Acadamiae [sic] Cantabr: ad Elizab: Reginam 1564', around 315 sets of verses by 255 authors, all named and arranged by college. There are verses in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac.Here is to be noted that before her highnes cam to the towne by aduertisment of master Secretorie / order was taken for the makyng of twoe bookes to be exhibited vnto her grace. In thone should be wrighten in Romayne hand all the verses bothe of greeke / and laten heb. Caldee /...
Dates:
1564
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Fonds
Cambridgeshire Collectanea
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5777
Scope and Contents
A collection of remarks upon the history of advowsons, tithes, manors and other, similar, historial subjects in various Cambridgeshire parishes compiled by John Caley when secretary of the Record Commission in answer to enquirers, with transcripts and extracts from documents.
Dates:
1805-1815
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cambridgeshire Heraldic Visitation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6579
Scope and Contents
'Visitation of Cambridgeshire taken by Henry St George, Richmond Heralde of Armes Anno Dom. 1619', a copy of the heraldic visitation, containing coats of arms in pen-and-ink, 96 folios. There is an index on folios 4-5. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of George, Earl Macartney.
Dates:
1620 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cambridgeshire: Inclosure and Turnpike Trust Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6011-6088
Scope and Contents
Minutes, claims, accounts and other material relating to inclosure commissions and Turnpike Trusts in Cambridgeshire.
Dates:
1797-1872
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Fonds
Cambridgeshire Land Assessment Records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5717-5745
Scope and Contents
Lists of landholders, tithe particulars, poor rates, rate assessments and valuations for the various parts of Cambridgeshire.
In 1856 the Poor Law Guardians in Cambridge resolved upon a survey and valuation of rateable property in the parishes of their union. The survey was carried out by Richard Harwood and John Rolfe Mann. Its findings form MSS.Add.5730-5745. An earlier assessment of land in Cambridgeshire, MSS.Add.5717-5729, was partly the work of Thomas Utton.
Dates:
1807-1856
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Fonds
Cambridgeshire Poor Rate Assessment
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6960
Scope and Contents
Assessment of payment of Cambridgeshire villages.
Dates:
1820-1835
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Fonds
Camera studies: Kenya 1919
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046C
Scope and Contents
Album purchased from a bookseller. It is a green album with 'Camera studies' on the front cover, published by Johnsons of London, and provides interest as a record of European social life in Kenya, and numbers 20, 23-26 and 29 provide a clear and detailed picture of a white settler's sitting room. There are three gaps in the album, and though there are three loose prints (46-48) their subjects do not correspond with the captions of those missing. Inside the cover is written 'L.E. Grundy...
Dates:
1919
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Cambridge University Library
File
Camillo Guidarello: Grant of Degree
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4131
Scope and Contents
Grant by the College of Urbino of the degree of Doctor of Law to Camillo Guidarello, 22 February 1589, 12 folios. The grant is endorsed at the conclusion by Perioannes Murcianus. The margins contain portrait medallions, foliation and coats of arms. The coats of arms all appear to be variations of the arms of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, Dukes of Urbino. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork. In a separate envelope is the seal, which is...
Dates:
1589
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Campbell : letters to Campbell bequeathed as a collection to Miss Frances Dunn, with a few other papers.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/CAMPBELL
Dates:
1856 - 1907
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Canada, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Aden [Adan] and Galle
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062B
Scope and Contents
An album containing an excellent, if geographically eclectic, selection of views on prints of various sizes. The photographs are either captioned on the prints or more briefly on the mounts (with the exception of Y3062B/16 which is uncaptioned).The only two identified photographers in the album are both from the Canadian section:1-4, ?10 and 11-14 are signed by Alexander Henderson and 1-2 are also dated '1875'. Henderson (1831-1913) emigrated from Scotland to Montreal in 1855...
Dates:
1869 - 1875
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canadian demonstrations 1983-84
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062O
Scope and Contents
Coloured prints, taken by D.H. Simpson, relating to demonstrations in Canada.
Dates:
1983 - 1984
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canadian Oil Production. c.1965
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062G
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints most measuring approximately 240 x 190 mm, with detailed explanatory captions. The photographs illustrate research, geological surveying and drilling operations. Y3062G/1 and Y3062G/9 are by Ronald Vickers.
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 245 x 190 mm and with handwritten captions beneath the prints. The name J. Walker Marsh is signed inside the front cover. The album shows the path of the railway through the Fraser Canyon.Origins of the Canadian Pacific Railway.From its first conception in the 1860s the difficulties attendant on building an ocean-to-ocean railway across Canada centred as much on a complex of economic and political factors as on the...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3069B
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints measuring approximately 245 x 190 mm, with handwritten captions beneath the prints. The name J Walker Marsh is signed inside the front cover. The album shows the path of the railway along the Thompson River, past Kamloops and towards Eagle Pass.David Mattison has identified numbers 1, 3-6, 8-9, 11, 13 and 16-18 as the work of the British photographer Charles Macmunn (1840?-1903). Macmunn was a native of Manchester, England, who worked out of...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canning: Papers Relating to Sir Stratford and Lady Canning
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/SCR
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence written by Sir Stratford and Lady Canning, and a newspaper clipping about him.
Dates:
1825 - 1888
Fonds
Canon and civil law notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9344
Scope and Contents
Notes on canon and civil law, mostly abridgements of pre-Reformation texts, especially Justinian's Institutes, with references to English statutes up to 1548. It is written in a single hand throughout, in Latin with some English. There is a fragment of a fifteenth-century medical tract on the guards of the volume. There are also ownership inscriptions in pencil, 'John Fowler his booke 1649' and 'William Fowler his booke'. 175 folios.
Dates:
1600 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
File
Cantab Fables
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5966
Scope and Contents
A collection of stories illustrative of Cambridge life, 54 folios: (fo. 2) list of contents; (fo. 3) text. There are various pen-and-ink sketches by way of illustration, a few on paper gummed to the leaves. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Catherine Mary Wellings and 'E.P. Wellings 1873'.
Dates:
1831
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File
Cantica Carthusiensia
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4145
Scope and Contents
'Cantica Sacra Dominicis & Festis Cantanda iuxta Ritum Ordinis Cartusiensis', 20 folios. There are illuminated head-pieces, tail-piece and initials, and rubricated headings. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of Samuel Sandars. On p. 33: 'Scribebat F.A.D.V. Cartusianus'.
Dates:
1688
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Canton Disturbances, December 1927
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377D
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints, measuring approximately 125 x 80 mm and captioned in ink beneath the prints. The album shows scenes of executions and destruction after the disturbances of December 1927. The compiler of the album is unidentified, but was presumably a member of the British merchant community in the city. Plates 1-3 are commercially produced work, the remainder amateur.Background to the 1927 disturbances.The abdication of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912 and the...
Dates:
1927-12
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cape Coast
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448Z
Scope and Contents
Little is known of the provenance of this collection of uncaptioned glass negatives. It features pupils gathered round a sign which reads 'Cape Coast Wesley Technical Institution.' It is likely, therefore, that the rest of the images relate to the school's students and activities.
Dates:
1900 - 1960
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cape Town anti-convict petition
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 196
Scope and Contents
460 x 29 cm. In 1841 it had been suggested that criminals from India might be brought to Cape Town, and in 1842 that young offenders might be more suitable, but both ideas had been opposed. Then, on 7th August 1848, Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sent a public despatch to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Harry Smith, in which he suggested men with tickets of leave might be a useful addition to the labour force and sought local views on the matter. Local reaction was...
Dates:
1849
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cape Town, the Gateway to South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059U
Scope and Contents
A collection of small images measuring 82 x 63 mm with captions on the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Photographs by Charles F. Kimble and Sons.
Dates:
1950
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Fonds
Capitula of an unidentified medical treatise
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.22
Scope and Contents
The chapters listed are 3-5, vii-xi, xiv, xv, 57-66, 68, and 69. The list is in one column on the recto only, written after folding the leaf.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Capt. A. Liston Blyth, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.C.I., Resident Magistrate, Delta Division Papua and Native Constabulary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084D
Scope and Contents
205 x 160 mm. A loose black and white print. Captain Blyth posed among native policeman armed with rifles and bandoliers. A. Liston Blyth appears in Colonial Officers records for Papua from 1915, when he was a patrol officer, until 1930. He was Resident Magistrate in the Delta Division, from 1926-1930.
Dates:
1926 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library