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Ellen Ettlinger: Diary of visit to Moscow and Leningrad
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8641
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript diary of a visit to Moscow and Leningrad, 1928, 94 pages, with an index at the end. There are two accompanying pieces of correspondence with the donor, in English, 21 May 1986 and 2 June 1986, regarding the gift of the collection to Cambridge University Library.
Dates:
1928
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Ellis Hovell Minns: Influence of Materials upon Writing
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6588
Scope and Contents
'Influence of Materials upon Writing', lectures delivered by E.H. Minns as Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge, November 1925, 81 folios: (fo. 1-58) text, with comparative tables of certain alphabets inserted (fos 7a, 12a, and 21a); (fo. 59-70) photographs. The writing is on the recto only.
Dates:
1925
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Elsie Shantus: Material for a Dictionary of ''Law French''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8321
Scope and Contents
The typescript draft of a dictionary of Law French compiled according to the method of the New English dictionary, with quotations from printed texts.
Dates:
1934-1938 (circa)
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Ely Cathedral Statutes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7986
Scope and Contents
A manuscript compilation of Ely Cathedral statutes of 1666, 146 pages, preceded by an index. The rest of the volume is unused. Apart from the index, the text is on the rectos only, although the versos are also numbered.
Dates:
1680-1700 (circa)
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Ely Consistory Court: Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6605
Scope and Contents
Nearly every parish in the diocese is represented in the records. There are citations, depositions and interrogations, also letters from incumbents or churchwardens to the Registrar of the Court commending persons cited to his interest or begging to be excused attendance on behalf of themselves or others. There are forms of confessions or penance, accounts and inventories. The dates of the papers lie between 1579 and 1674, though the majority belong to the years 1589-1596. Also included are...
Dates:
1501-1800 (Circa)
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Ely Dean and Chapter records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDC
Scope and Contents
The archives consist of the administrative records of the cathedral, the College (or close), the extensive manors and estates of the Dean and Chapter, and include records of the medieval monastery, the `Prior and Convent' of Ely. There is also a small number of records about the Cathedral School. The monastery (later the Dean and Chapter) was a considerable landowner in the area and this collection is a superb source of information about social and economic history and agriculture in the...
Dates:
974-c2015
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Ely Diocesan records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDR
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records of the bishop's administration, and of his officials. The bishops' registers, which at first contained all episcopal acts but later recorded only certain important items of business, start with Bishop Montacute's register in 1337. Earlier registers, and those from 1610 to 1702, are lost, but transcripts of some 17th century registers survive.From the fifteenth century separate registers and records were kept of various branches of the bishop's...
Dates:
1251-c2015
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Embarkation of horses for the Boer War from Australia, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 150 mm. With the exception of Y308M/45, they all show horses on the quayside, being embarked, and stabled on board ship, or views of the ships which transported them. Two of the prints (Y308M/2 and 45) have inscriptions in pencil on the backs, in the same handwriting, and some individuals are identified by writing on the actual prints (Y308M/18 and 27). There are no other captions, but some of the ships' names are visible. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1901
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File
Emil Heitz : Index verborum in Aristotelem
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6237
Scope and Contents
In Latin and Greek.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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Emmanuel Gauthier: Louis Veuillot et Victor Hugo
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8643
Scope and Contents
'Louis Veuillot et Victor Hugo' (Thse Complmentaire de Doctorat-es-lettres), 220 pages.
Dates:
1938 (Circa. Undated but written after 1938.)
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Empire Settlement Tour
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353
Scope and Contents
Kelsey’s record of the tour includes two volumes of daily diaries, a photograph album, loose photographs, eight boxes of lantern slides, a map, and a file of ephemera.
Dates:
1928
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E.N. Sinskaja: The species problem in modern botanical literature
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8106
Scope and Contents
A typescript translation (88 pages) made by Dr H. Fox in the Russian Department, Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, School of Agriculture, Cambridge, of an article from Uspekhi sovremennoi biologii, vol. 15, no. 3 (Moscow-Leningrad, 1942), pp. 326-329.
Dates:
1942
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Enfeoffment indenture, Campton, Bedfordshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.227
Scope and Contents
Whereas Thomas Wilkinson of Campton, clerk, has agreed to the sale by him to Edmond Williamson of Campton, clerk, of certain land in Campton; Thomas Wilkinson releases to Edmond Williamson the land in question, to him and his heirs to the use of him and his heirs for ever. Witnesses: Henry H. Goodhall, Benjamin Barker. On the back are 1) a certificate of delivery of seisin. Witnesses: the same; 2) a receipt for the consideration money signed by Thomas Wilkinson. Witnesses: the same. One seal...
Dates:
7 Feb. 1805
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[England?]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3013A
Scope and Contents
A small untitled album 210 x 165 mm containing photographs mostly four to a page inserted into oval, square and rectangle photograph slots. Some slots are empty. There are no captions or identifying information, save for one loose small image (60 x 45 mm) of two boys in school uniform captioned on the reverse with 'John and Eric, Wyndham Park, June 1930.' Most of the images are of, presumably, family groups, and children, in what appears to be England, but also included are a number of...
Dates:
1920 - 1940
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Englands fore-warning or: A relation of true strange and wonderfull visions and propheticall revelations concerning these tragicall, sinfull, and dismall times shewed foure yeeres since to Mrs Grace Carye of Bristoll
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.32
Scope and Contents
fo. i: blank. fo. iii: dedication to [Robert Devereux, 3rd] earl of Essex. fo. iv: title page. fo. v: prefaratory matter. fo.: 1 text. fo. 13: blank. fo. 37: prayers. fo. 38: blank. The verso is blank throughout.
Dates:
1639
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English legal commonplace book, in law French, c.1620
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9754
Scope and Contents
1 volume, c.1620, written in one hand throughout, subject titles in English, notes in law French; original boards covered in calf, each board stamped with gilt 'EE'. Formerly owned by John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St. Andrews (1779-1861), Lord Chancellor, his card pasted inside front board.
Dates:
1620 (circa)
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English translation of Khairuddin Muhammad of Allahbad's History of Jaunpur
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3866
Scope and Contents
Oval Indian stamp at fo. 85v. Attached at end are 3pp. of notes on villages in the district.
Dates:
Sept. 1857-Apr. 1858
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English translation of Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzali's Nasihat al-Muluk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3867-3868
Scope and Contents
Translated by James Walker. The translation is dated at Rotterdam, 22 May 1702, but this MS consists of sheets watermarked 1808 and 1810. The translator's English is imperfect: he admits in his preface to being 'not as yet accustomed to the expressing properly of the English terms'. The text continues without a break from vols 1 to 2 and is paginated continuously 1-953, although there are numerous errors in the pagination. The English text is on the verso throughout. The recto was apparently...
Dates:
1808-1810
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File
English Translation of Psalms 1-69
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6161
Scope and Contents
Attributed to 'the late Joseph Fawcett'.
Dates:
1818 (Circa)
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Enlarged photographs of unknown New Guinea
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084C
Scope and Contents
Five loose black and white prints, presented to Sir Harry Wilson by Lieutenant E W Pearson Chinnery F.R.C.S.
Dates:
1914 - 1919
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Environs of Cape Town
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059P
Scope and Contents
A collection of nine (of an original eleven) loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The majority of the prints show views on the Kloof Road which runs out from West Cape Town and round the Lion's Head. Photographs are possibly by C.F. Wienand.
Dates:
1905
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E.P. Farrow: ''Ecology of the vegetation of Breckland''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9681
Scope and Contents
'With two hundred photographs, charts and diagrams in the text and supplement'. 351 pages. Typescript for publication. It would seem that the document as a whole was never printed, but sections were adapted for publication in the Journal of Ecology (see Publication Notes).
Dates:
1915
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Epistles addressed to the Family of Love
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2808
Scope and Contents
English translations of anonymous text. fos. ii, 73v, 74: 'C:18G', and further 17th-cent. jottings.
Dates:
1650 (Circa. In 17th text-cent. hand.)
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Epistles addressed to the Family of Love
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2809
Scope and Contents
English translations. Includes: 'The Fourth Epistle: A Declaration upon the Second Chapter of Genesis', unprinted; 'The Sixth Epistle: An Information how or in what manner Christ dyed for our Sinns', unprinted; Hiel [Hendrik Janson], 'A Declaration of the Spiritual powerful Work of Job and Nabuchodonosor in the patient Humanitie', unprinted; Janson, 'A Short Instructive Direction', unprinted. fo. ii: 'C.22(6). J.B.' (in 17th-cent. hand).
Dates:
1650 (Circa. In 17th-cent. hand.)
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File
Epistles and Orations
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4447
Scope and Contents
Composed between 1656 and 1671, collected by an amanuensis.
Dates:
1685-1688
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