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Collection of music for lute
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3056
Scope and Contents
On 6-line stave. Named pieces include: Anthony Holborne, 'Cradle of Conceits'; John Dowland, 'Piper's Pavan and Galliard', 'Lachrymae', 'Pavan', 'A fancy'; W. Hollis, 'John Blundevill's last farewell'; M. Cavendish, 'Galliard'; K. C., 'An answer to cuckoo', 'Lachrymae', 'A fancy'; John Daniell, 'Monsieur's Almayne', 'Rosa'; Thomas Robinson, 'Spanish pavan'; 'Fantasia Laurincini'; several preludes and exercises; 'Robin Galliard'; S. T., 'Pavan' and 'Galliard'; 'Fantasia Newsadlers'; 'Frog...
Dates:
1600 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of music, various years. Various hands.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4250
Scope and Contents
Collection of music, various years. Various hands. In English, German and Latin. 1. 11.5 x 8 in. 2 leaves. c. 1580. Song: 'Comes there any mo knaves', with copy of words made by F. J. H. Jenkinson and copy of words and music harmonised in 3 parts made by E. J. Dent, 21 Jan. 1901; 2. 2 leaves. 20th cent. Transcript of F. Pilkington, 'George Pilkington's Funeral' from CUL, MS Dd.2.11, fo.6 (lute music), made by W. C. Denis Browne; 3. 10 leaves. c. 1853. Draft of part of what appears to be an...
Dates:
1580-1912 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of newsletters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8640
Scope and Contents
A collection of newsletters, 1563-1683, with modern typescript transcripts and a few reproductions.
Dates:
1563-1683
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of official documents re Christianity in Malabar and Cochin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.105.1
Scope and Contents
Includes (Malabar/Cochin): summary descriptions of inhabitants and economy of Malabar; edict of Chien-Lung, 9 Nov. 1785, trans. into Dutch; undated and unsigned documents re religion in Malabar and Cochin; letter from Pope Clement XIV to Florentius a Jesu Nazareno, bishop of Malabar, 23 July 1772 (copy); 'Commissie na Narapoly om daar te zeggen'.
Dates:
1772-1785 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of official documents re the University of Leiden
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.105.2
Scope and Contents
Letter from university and Johan van den Bergh to unidentified recipient, 27 Apr. 1699; states of Holland, resolutions re Leiden, 30 May 1724; agreement between university and town, 1725.
Dates:
1699-1725 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5962
Scope and Contents
Four hands. A collection of poems and verse translations from classical authors, apparently by Cambridge writers, among them being the following: George Stepney: 'On the burning of Monmouth's Picture' (fo. 6v), printed in C. H. Cooper's 'Annals of Cambridge' Vol. III, p. 612; James Smallwood: 'Verses spoken to the Country Ladyes in the Belfry at St. Marie's in Camb. at the Publick commencement in 84' (fo. 10v); Archibald Pitcairn: 'Epitaphium Vicecomitis Dundee' (fo. 13); John Dryden:...
Dates:
1688-1689
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of prayers, no place
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1281
Scope and Contents
A collection of prayers to be carried, as folded, on the person. It seems to have been taken from the binding of a book, as there is no proper beginning and holes where it was stitched. Domini regis Rici [scdi?] is mentioned. Has been cut at the sides, as well as at the top. Part of the back also used for the beginning of St. John's Gospel.
Dates:
1450 (circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of precedents for justices of the peace
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9434
Scope and Contents
A collection of precedents for use by justices. Volume, paper, c.415pp., unbound, front pages torn, a collection of justices' precedents, under various heads. Many Pembrokeshire precedents. At the end, copies of early 17C legal and administrative letters, and orders, mostly to the Justices of Surrey. [Including: The Commission of the Peace. The oath of such as are made Justices of Peace. A table by the alphabet of matters conteyned in this booke. Of suertie of the Peace. Â
A copy of the...
Dates:
1625 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Collection of printed and manuscript poems by Oliver and of obituaries of him formed by James Douglas Hamilton Dickson (1849-1931) mathematician.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/PET.F.675
Scope and Contents
Front pastedown: list of contents in Dickson's hand.f. 1 (modern foliation throughout) earlier list of contents by Dickson.ff. 2-4 blank.f. 5: Comment on Oliver's retirement from Bovinger in the 'S. Albans Diocesan Magazine' annotated by Dickson as received 27 December 1904.f. 6: Oliver's obituary: cutting from The Times', 13 April 1905.At f. 7: 'The game of chess; or, a visit to Woolston Hall'. Verses by Oliver printed by C. Slocombe, Ongar, Essex, to be sold at 1...
Dates:
1830 - 1905-04-13
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Collection
Collection of railway maps, plans, diagrams, documents and working timetables many compiled by pre-British Railways rail companies
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Maps.RLY
Scope and Contents
The collection has developed over many years and has been acquired by purchase and donation. The bulk of these items were acquired in the 1970s from - so Library legend has it - a man in Leicester who had saved them from being burnt (the original source was possibly the British Rail Depot at Market Harborough though more recent study has suggested that the items may have been at the LMS (Midland Division) Estates Department). Most of these items are in classes Maps.RLY (smaller maps plus...
Dates:
1817 - 1998
Conditions Governing Access:
This item or collection is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. 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
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Cambridge University Library
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Collection of sermons in various hands, including those of Simon Patrick and Samuel Knight
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.51
Scope and Contents
Includes: two copies of William King, 'Europe's Delivery from France and Slavery, a Sermon preached at St Patrick's Church in Dublin 16 of November 1690', published 1691; 'Sermons to the Lord Justices of Ireland 1690', incomplete; notes of sermon preached by Stephen Marshall to the House of Commons, 7 Sep. 1641 and published in the same year; Isaac Barrow, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, sermon on Prov. iii.17, preached 1664; Joseph Johnston, 'The Excellency of Charity', preached 10...
Dates:
1688-1773 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
File
Collection of songs, poems and epitaphs compiled by a Norfolk clergymen
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.79
Scope and Contents
Items inlcude: Thomas Randolph (attrib.) 'The townsmen's petition of Cambridge', 'On the fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge', 'Oratio Praevaricatoria', (with Ben Jonson), 'Discontented Soliloquy', 'An Answer to Mr Ben Jonson's Ode'; Sir Henry Wotton, 'On his Mistress, the queen of Bohemia'; Anon., 'Thinkest thou Kate to put me down'; Hamon L'Estrange (attrib.), 'The liberty and requiem of an imprisoned Royalist'; Creswell, 'Dame Learning of late is fled the land'; Symonds, 'A pastoral...
Dates:
1661 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of Spanish poetry and prose
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7812
Scope and Contents
'Miszelania curiosa', a collection of fifty-eight pieces of poetry and prose written in various hands, accompanied by a typescript list of contents. Most of the works are anonymous, although there are poems by Joseph Perez de Montoro and Suor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The longest item is a series of twenty-six satires in verse and prose, dated 1735-1736, by 'un critico Duende', possibly Manuel Freyre de Silva, a Portuguese. The satires are aimed in particular at Don Jose Patino, minister to...
Dates:
1650-1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of speeches made in Parliament during November 1640
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.39
Scope and Contents
Speakers: John, Lord Finch; Sir Benjamin Rudyard; Sir John Culpepper; Sir Edward Dering; Edward Bagshaw, and Sir Harbottle Grimston. With note of proceedings upon the impeachment of Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford. Bound with a printed tract: Lawfulness of the Scots' Expedition into England manifested as followeth, Edinburgh, 1640. fo. 1: '9'. fo. 2: 'B.d.1-11'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of technical drawings of French Printing Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10086
Scope and Contents
The drawings, made by Augustin Guery, include plans, elevations and sections of the printing press, as well as details of the ironwork and several tools, a brayer, palet knife, a mallet for planing formes and a knife for scraping the ink balls. Done in pen and ink and watercolour, these are highly accurate drawings at a scale of 1:5 for the plans and elevations and 1:3 for the details. They were completed over a period of 3 weeks from 11 November to 2 December, taking 5 days for each sheet...
Dates:
1814
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Cambridge University Library
File
Collection of Verse
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6343
Scope and Contents
Verses copied from the St James' evening post, the Grub Street journal, and other publications, including items by William Walsh, Sir C.H. Williams, T. Tickell, Stevenson, Bavius, David Garrick, C. Pitt, and Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 32 folios. On fo. i is a woodcut entitled 'The patient husband&scolding Wife', with verses below. On fos 27v and 28r is a list of contents.
Dates:
1751 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Collection
Collection of Views
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Views
Dates:
1857 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access:
This item or collection is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. 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
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collection of vocal music
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6337
Scope and Contents
A collection of transcripts of songs and airs from operas, published circa 1780, with one or two instrumental pieces. In two hands, one apparently Italian, and one possibly that of an English lady. Comprising among others the following: (fo. 9) J. Christian Bach: 'In this shady blest Retreat' (1775?); (fo. 12) B. Cooke: 'Hark, hark the Lark'; (fo. 26v) anon: 'My lodging is on the cold ground' (1780?); (fo. 38) P. Anfossi: 'Negl' Elisi ombra onorata' (1775?); (fo. 43) G. F. Händel:...
Dates:
1783 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collections concerning English and Scottish Historical events, 1571 - 1640
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.335
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters, statements, speeches and notes on Scottish and English historical events dating from 1571 until 1640. Much of the information concerns events leading to the English Civil War. Including copies of: 'A Generall View of the Scriptures'; Elizabeth I's instructions to Sir Thomas Smith, 3 Dec. 1571; 'The Tyme the Place and Manner of the Scottish Queenes Death', c. 1587; James VI, speech to Scottish parliament, 19 June 1617; speeches by Lord Ellesmere and Henry Montague in...
Dates:
1641 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collections concerning the reckoning of coinage in the hand of J.F. Gronovius
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6603
Scope and Contents
Fragments of the "Vetus Rationarium" and the "Novum Rationarium" of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus (1048-1118) with Latin translation, and other treatises in Greek.
Dates:
1690 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
File
Collections for a History of Trinity College, Cambridge
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6147
Scope and Contents
437 folios. On fo. 4v is a letter from Allott to Richard Allott junior, 14 April 1822, and on fo. 18 is a note from J.E. Jackson, 11 March 1817. On fo. 437 is Anthony Topham, 'In Inaugurationem serenissimi Regis Caroli', transcribed from Cantabrigiensum dolor et solamen seu decessio Jacobi succesio Caroli (Cambridge, 1625), p. 7. Some leaves are blank.
Dates:
1817-1822 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3095
Scope and Contents
Contents: Geoffrey Keating, MS copy of his History of Ireland, printed by Irish Texts Soc., 4 vols, London, 1902-14; 'Ionnsuighe Mhuighe Leana', text belonging to the 'short recension' of the MS described by K. Jackson, Cath Maighe Léna, Dublin, 1938; 'Cath Mhuighe Muchroimhe', not the version edited by W. Stokes (Revue Celtique 13 (1892), but probably that in modern Irish mentioned by him at pp. 428-9; Toruigheacht Cheallachain Caisil, MS version of text edited by A. Bugge, Oslo, 1905;...
Dates:
June 1759
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collections of Personal Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/2511/DCPP
Dates:
1818 - 1982
Found in:
Darwin College Archives
Fonds
Collections on Jonathan Swift
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7788
Scope and Contents
Box 1. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's poems and correspondence, including material owned by Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the British Museum Box 2. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's correspondence, including material owned by the National Library of Scotland, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Earl of Harrowby, Wellesley College Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Haverford College Library, the...
Dates:
1667-1964 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Collections relating to Ely Cathedral, Samuel Knight
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.49
Scope and Contents
Includes: Samuel Knight, 'History of the Church of Ely from the Foundation', unpublished; copy of Anthony Walker, 'A Brief Description of the Life and Death of Mr John Bois BD.', printed in Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, London 1779, pp.326-42; copies of wills of Sir James Hall (d.1557), Laurence Mopted (d.1557), John Mere (d.1558), John Fuller (d.1558), John Atkinson (d.1558), Richard Edyll (d.1559), Henry Walker (d.1564), Robert Beaumont (d.1567), Edward Buckenham (d.1568), Nicholas Carr...
Dates:
circa 1730
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library