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Commentary on the Kingdom of France
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4439
Scope and Contents
Monsignor de Terracina, 'Commentarii dell' attioni del regno di Francia'; Michele Soriano, 'Commentarii del regno di Francia'; and other pieces, 409 folios.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Commission, London
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1285
Scope and Contents
Printed form, appointed Charles McCarthy, gent., as adjutant of the 14th Duchess of York's own regiment of Light Dragoons, commanded by our ... well-beloved cousin General John William, Earl of Bridgewater. Signed on behalf of the King at Sidmouth, Carlton House. Entered with the Secretary at War, [signed] by Robert Lukin. Entered with the Con... General of Musters, [signed] by Thos. Butts.
Dates:
5 May 1814
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Commission of J. Brampton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.750
Scope and Contents
The original commission appointing John Brampton (afterwards Sir John Brampton, Lord Chief Justice of England) Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely. Signed by the Bishop of the time.
Dates:
1630
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Cambridge University Library
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Committee Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 4
Scope and Contents
The committee records listed here derive largely from committees set up to oversee the production of Cambridge Philosophical Society publications. There are also financial committee records and records of a committee set up to organise the sesquicentenary celebrations in 1969.
Dates:
1946 - 1998
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fonds
Common recovery under the Great Seal, Reading, Berkshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4124
Dates:
1698
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Commonplace Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9221
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book in several hands, probably of Cambridge origin. The title on the spine is 'Epitaphia Carmina Epigram[m]ata & quaed[am] alia'. The volume contains extracts from Greek, Roman, French, Italian, Spanish, and English authors, epitaphs and commemorative verses, some humorous. The sections are arranged under the following headings: Carmina Sententiae Proverbia; Facetiae; De rapina et homicidio; De legibus regnor[um] administratione; Amorosi; Monuments Funeralls Buriall; De...
Dates:
1600-1639 (Circa)
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Commonplace Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9250
Scope and Contents
Latin and English verse exercises and Latin prose compositions. Authors of verses are shown only by their surnames, but most can be identified with boys from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset who matriculated at Balliol, Exeter and Oriel Colleges, and at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, 1737-41. The book is inscribed 'Thomas Bury's book Novbr. ye 10th 1736', later altered to 'J. Chichester's book'. It has the ownership stamp of Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), novelist, who was a pupil at...
Dates:
1736
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Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8160
Scope and Contents
A work in Spanish, with some Latin quotations, divided into alphabetical sections. Contains references to literary works, many with Act or folio specified; possibly a Glossary?
Dates:
1792 (Circa)
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Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.27
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous collection of political tracts and speeches, and other items. In 24 hands. Includes: two works attrib. to Sir Walter Ralegh; report on trial of the earl and countess of Suffolk and Sir John Bingley; orders made by governors of Highgate Free School; various speeches in parliament by James I and others; 1621 petition of the nobility to James I; parliamentary business, including Charles I's dissolution of parliament, 1628; royal instructions for George Abbot, archbishop of...
Dates:
1610-1630 (Circa)
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Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7500
Scope and Contents
Includes poems, anecdotes, historical notes, pictures taken from publications and painings of flowers.
Dates:
c. 1850
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Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7790
Dates:
C. 1750
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Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7882
Dates:
C. 1700
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Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5779
Scope and Contents
Alphabetical index to latin terms compiled by Robert Stonehouse. Also used as a commonplace book by William Balam, Registrar of the Diocese of Ely. Includes drafts of copies of letters, some concerning land disputes in and around Ely.
Dates:
1681-1711
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Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8451
Scope and Contents
Book of various passages in English and Latin, sorted alphabetically with indexes of subjects and authors at the beginning. Quoted authors include Bacon, Boyle, Browne, Burton, Charleton, Davenant, Descartes, Fuller, Glanvill, Hobbes, Howell and Montaingne. Pages numbered to 229, followed by blank pages.
Dates:
1687 (Circa)
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Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8797
Scope and Contents
The volume contains extracts, taken mostly from the Morning post, 1806-1812. One extract is marked 'William Withall scripsit Aged 15 Years', and another is marked with his name. The subject matter includes the death of William Pitt; a description of Sutton, Bedfordshire; poems, including 'The modern Goth' by H.B.M. on Gothic/Classical architecture; a Song on Pitt's birthday by George Canning; 'An Address to England on Lord Nelson's death' by Thomas Fitzgerald; 'Wellington's...
Dates:
1796-1833
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Commonplace book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.14
Scope and Contents
A theological commonplace book, arranged under headings 'Actions' to 'Zion' (fos 1-193), and 'Angels' to 'Worship' (fos 193v-233). On a flyleaf: '14th Sept. 1719 began the booke being the 4th collection begun att Luke 21'.
Dates:
1719 (Circa)
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Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7196
Scope and Contents
Includes poems by William Browne, Thomas Campion, Thomas Dekker, John Donne, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson and Sir Walter Raleigh
Dates:
c.1700
Conditions Governing Access:
Restricted access. Use Microfilm instead.
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Cambridge University Library
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Commonplace Book concerning royal visits of James I and Charles I to Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2677
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a commonplace book, written in Cambridge, paginated 65-75. First hand (c. 1615): Latin verses; questions debated during the king's visit, 15 May 1615; poem 'In adventum Regis Martii 7mo [1615]'; list of plays performed before the king at Cambridge, 1615; R. Corbet (attrib.), 'Liber Novus de Adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam' (trans.); Cambridge madrigal in answer to the last. Second hand (1642): John Cleveland, 'Address to King Charles I on his visit to Cambridge, March 1642; Francis...
Dates:
1615-1642
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Commonplace book of a clergyman, c. 1723.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5931
Scope and Contents
18 folios. The book is bound in a portion of a contemporary deed mentioning Ichabod Tipping. Its contents include an abstract of a lease of land in Camberwell, 1707 (fo. 17), and a note concerning Mrs Anne Tipping, 'Sister Tipping', and her estate (fo. 7). Fos 11-18 are written in reverse.
Dates:
1723 (Circa)
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Commonplace Book of Historical Notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6160
Dates:
1644-1652
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Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6664
Scope and Contents
Commonplace collection containing religious poetry, copies of letters, cuttings, etc., including material relating to Byron and Napoleon, written in several hands, 269 folios. There is an index of contents on pp. iv-xi.
Dates:
1750-1830 (Circa)
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Commonplace Book of White Watson, 1810, containing geological and other memoranda
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6304
Scope and Contents
Throughout: notes on stones, quarries and mines at particular places.fo.1v. Notes on Merino sheep; yield of Poland oats on Harlington Common; Hardy repainted gallery at Chatsworth, 1784.
fo.2r. Coloured sketch of geological strata.
fo.2v-3r. Printed poem, W. Bainbridge, ‘On Bolsover Castle, written in the summer of 1807’, printed Sheldon, Chesterfield.
fo.3v. Note on cutting down fir plantations in America. fo.4r. Pruning of trees at Chatsworth, 17 DEC 1810; sketch of strata at...
Dates:
1810
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Cambridge University Library
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Commonwealth citizens in the United Kingdom, 1964-65
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Y
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 205 x 155 mm and have detailed story captions on the reverse. The collection illustrates the assimilation of citizens from Commonwealth countries (the majority from India) into English life and highlights some of the efforts made by various authorities and private individuals to facilitate this. It is possible that there were originally 20 photographs in the collection.
Dates:
1964 - 1965
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Commonwealth engravings
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 343
Scope and Contents
Engravings of people and places throughout the world mounted on loose pages from a scrapbook. The majority of the engravings relate to Africa, particularly South Africa. Many are of charts and maps. The original pictures date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the prints are undated, but the dates that are given would suggest that the scrapbook was compiled during the second half of the nineteenth century. Original titles and captions have been recorded as found and...
Dates:
1817 - 1866
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Cambridge University Library
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Commonwealth in Focus Slides
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011GGG
Scope and Contents
Collection of 35mm colour slides of countries of the Commonwealth. When the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition was being prepared it was felt that the strong emphasis on the historical aspect, and the fact that the only section on the contemporary Commonwealth dealt with broad issues and organisations rather than individual countries, made some additional material on contemporary developments desirable. Accordingly it was decided to have a continuous slide projection of contemporary...
Dates:
1982
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Cambridge University Library