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Fonds
Certificates and testimonials in favour of Professor William Wright (1830-1889), Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4498
Scope and Contents
1. Nomination and presentation of Master William Wright to a bursary at the University of
St. Andrews, by the trustees of the Madras College, St. Andrews, 31 July 1844. 2-19. Certificates of his attendance at classes in the University of St. Andrews, 23 April
1845-26 April 1849, and (/15-/16) testimonials on his application for a schoolmaster’s
post, May 1848. 20-27. Miscellaneous testimonials on his behalf, 17 August 1853-30...
Dates:
1844-1861
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Cesare Livizzano: Diploma
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6004
Scope and Contents
Diploma of Doctor of Law granted by the University of Bologna to C. Livizzano, written in the hand of H. Valesi, and signed by Rodulfo Paleotti, Giovanni Battista Rusticelli and Hernando Valesio, scribe, 17 December 1602, 8 folios.
Dates:
1602
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] 1886
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P
Scope and Contents
Album of prints measuring approximately 275 x 210 mm. or 210 x 265 mm., generally one to a page and each with a typed caption. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The photographs show groups and portraits of people in Ceylon, especially Kandy, and views of the outlying country, including surf boats, fishing canoes, railways, Buddhist...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
C.H. Cooper: Cambridge biographical papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9474
Scope and Contents
C.H. Cooper's working notes on members of the University, mostly written on the back of posters and notices relating to Cooper's work as Town Clerk, c.1850-66. A detailed list is available at the desk
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Chadwick: The Papers of John Chadwick (1920-1998), classical philologist, lexicographer and scholar of Linear B
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/CHWK
Dates:
1946-2018
Fonds
Chants used in Canterbury Catherdral in the hand of W.H. Longhurst
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6400-6401
Scope and Contents
Chants arranged in order from first to last day of the month and comprising chants for the Venite and Psalms for the day. The name of the composer is written over each. The majority of the chants are published.
Dates:
1888 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Management Group
Chapel
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC06
Scope and Contents
Including St Bene't's.
For expenditure on the chapel in 1662 see 02/B/81/156-60.
Dates:
1452 - 1931
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Management Group
Chapel
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/C
Dates:
1478
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
File
Charge of the warden of the collegiate establishment
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.17
Dates:
1857
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charge to circuit judges
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9433
Scope and Contents
Charge to circuit judges, in English, early 17th century. Probably owned by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), antiquary, Clerk of the Record Office, Tower of London. 1 volume, 16 fos., limp vellum cover; inside back cover, inscription 'Thos. Astle his Book 1756'
Dates:
1625 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Charitessi 1911
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7333
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to Elizabeth Bridges's anonymous volume of poems, 'Charitessi 1911' [title transliterated from Greek], printed at the Cambridge University Press and published by Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, 1912. The contents include a manuscript copy of the poems, a draft title page of the volume and notes to the printer, all in the hand of Francis Jenkinson; a printed proof of the volume bearing annotations in various hands, including corrections apparently in the hand of Elizabeth...
Dates:
1912-1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Alexander Gordon, 'Our trip to Burmah [i.e. Myanmar], with notes on that country' (London, 1875)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029G
Scope and Contents
A printed volume (now disbound) containing woodburytypes mounted as illustrations, most measuring approximately 140 x 90 mm, with letterpress captions. The views are of architecture and people of different ethnic origins.Surgeon General Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1820-1899) accompanied the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army to Burma in December 1874 and the book records his observations of the country and its people.The prints included in the volume are not...
Dates:
1874 - 1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Allberry: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Allberry
Scope and Contents
The collection mainly comprises a manuscript, articles, notes, Coptic dictionary slips and correspondence.
Dates:
1935-1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Babbage: mathematical and scientific notebooks and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8705
Dates:
1806-1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Baron Clarke: Botanical and general diary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9966
Dates:
1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Bernard Denston: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10248
Scope and Contents
Autobiography, short stories, poems, personal recollections of working at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Duckworth Laboratory of Physical Anthropology in Cambridge, press cuttings and printed material on the experiences of former prisoners of war held by the Japanese.
Dates:
1938-2012
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Charles Bromley: Dictionary of Musicians
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6336
Scope and Contents
'An Alphabetical Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Singers and Composers of both Sexes and of all Nations Vol 2nd', 98 folios. The first name is Paisiello, the last Walther. Fos 1-82 are paginated by the writer 193-255. Fos 83-90 are blank. Commencing at the other end of the book are a few notes on legal subjects.
Dates:
1826 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Cardale Babington: Draft of ''The British Rubi''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9693
Scope and Contents
A draft of Babington's work 'The British rubi : an attempt to discriminate the species of Rubus known to inhabit the British Isles', noted as 'partially done, not quite finished'.
Dates:
1865-1869 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Charles Cardale Babington: Library Catalogue
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6178
Dates:
1894 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Charles Chamberlain Hurst: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7955
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers of C.C. Hurst, with annotations made by his wife Rona, who also compiled lists of files and summaries of the correspondence (section A), and used Hurst's letters to write a book, The Evolution of Genetics (section 23).
Dates:
1895-1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Collection
Charles Close Society Archives
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/CCSA
Scope and Contents
A collection of documentary and printed material dealing with cartographic matters with particular relevance to Ordnance Survey. The Charles Close Society takes its name from Colonel Sir Charles Arden-Close, OS Director General from 1911 to 1922, and initiator of many of the maps now sought after by collectors. A man of immense stature and accomplishment, he was the link between the OS traditions of the nineteenth century and the future practices of the twentieth. For more information about...
Dates:
1660 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access:
The Charles Close Society Archives is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Appointments for access should be made in advance by contacting the Head of the Map Department, Anne Taylor (maps@lib.cam.ac.uk). Further contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership Members of the Charles Close Society wishing to consult the Charles Close Society Archives will not be charged for a ticket on production of their current CCS membership card and providing that they have first contacted Anne Taylor who will support their application.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Cockerell: Designs for Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9272
Dates:
1829-1840
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Cockerell: Drawings for the library and museums of Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6630
Dates:
1830-1836
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Cockrill: Collection of hymn tunes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9319
Scope and Contents
Titled 'Charles Cockrill His Book. July 25. 1818'. Cockrill, who has not been identified, was possibly a parish clerk responsible for leading singing in church. Includes approximately forty tunes arranged under 'common', 'long', 'short', and 'peculiar' metres, tunes names, with index at front of book.
Dates:
1818
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Charles Coulson: Lecture notes as Cambridge student
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7807
Scope and Contents
Lectures on mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Dates:
1928-1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library