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John Martyn: Raii methodus plantarum, Vol. II
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9684
Scope and Contents
'Tabulae generum plantarum quae in Raii methodo emendata et aucta'. Pencil drawings of plants, by genera. Each page has a heading for a genus, but many are then left blank. Supposition about provenance in front of book, written by 'W. A', alongside note from C. C. B. (possibly Charles Babington) that the first volume did not accompany this. Author thought to be John Martyn, Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge from 1732 to 1761.
Dates:
c. 1721
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Latin-Saxon Glossary and Notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8984
Scope and Contents
Latin-Saxon glossary compiled from the British Library Cottonian MSS Cleopatra A.3, with notes and cross-references from other manuscripts.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Legal papers, yearbooks, reports
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8935-8949
Scope and Contents
From the library at Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, formed by Anthony Gell (d.1583), lawyer.
Dates:
1300-1699 (Circa 14th-17th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Legal precedents, in Latin, compiled for Thomas Girdler
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9430
Scope and Contents
Joseph Girdler the elder, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, was a bencher of Lincoln's Inn and sergeant-at-law (1692). Two volumes bear his name and dates in 1663. His son, Joseph Girdler (d.1724), was a barrister-at-law (Inner Temple, 1699) sergeant-at-law (1723), and MP for Tamworth (1702-15). A loose paper in [2], addressed to him in Inner Temple Lane, suggests that he used and may have continued to compile the volumes. 4 volumes,uniform calf binding: [1] Book 2, 'Joseph Girdler 21 Martii...
Dates:
1675 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Long: the papers of Roger Long
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/LON
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Roger Long's Commonplace Books and notebooks as well as posthumous material collected by the College.
Dates:
1698-1951 and undated
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Lucattinis, Domenico de. Liber de elementis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10178
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript on paper in Latin and Italian, small quarto, ff. [4 index], 14-237 (foliation skips from 89 to 100 without loss of text), including a few blanks; written in brown ink in a single hand, illustrated with 24 ink drawings, 8 inserted on slips. Illustrated compilation of notes on natural philosophy, cosmology, geography, and magnetism, composed by an Italian student (possibly Tuscany) apparently from lectures attended in 1670. The first part begins with the four elements,...
Dates:
1670
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Matthew Bossulus: Institutiones Dialecticae
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8960
Scope and Contents
An unpublished volume on dialectics, containing two treatises, 'Matt[haei] Bossuli historici Regii Institu[ti]ones Dialecticae, quibus omnis disserendi doctrina pluribus libris ab Ar[istote]le descripta complectitur. In prima Becodiana ab eodem dictata. Anno 1584' and 'Scholia in Matt[haei] Bossuli Institutiones Dialecticas ab eodem dictata'.
Dates:
1584
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Minns: the papers of Ellis Hovell Minns
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/MIN
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of publications and notes by Minns as well as a recording of him and correspondence. Posthumous material has also been collected.
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Muniments
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1849/MR
Scope and Contents
The estate papers of the College are the largest collection within the archive, and are kept in their original pyxides in the Muniment Room. The Muniments relate to the College's Manors, Ecclesiastical livings, and Estates bought or gifted over the centuries. They were first catalogued in the 18th century by Adam Wall, a Fellow of the College, and this catalogue is substantially the same, although it has been added to in the 20th century and typed up in 2020.The fullest...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1200 - 1934
Found in:
Christ's College Archives
Fonds
Neil: the papers of Robert Alexander Neil
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/NEI
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Neil's notebooks and correspondence, as well as photographs of Neil. There are also posthumous materials including details of the auction of Neil's belongings.
Dates:
1868 - 1943
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Ortelius: the papers of Abraham Ortelius
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ORT
Scope and Contents
The principal item in the collection is Ortelius's 'Album Amicorum'. There are also copies of research relating to the 'Album'.
Dates:
c. 1574-1598; 1914 - 1999
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Papers of the Paget Family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10379
Scope and Contents
The deposit contains letters, documents, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications, sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diaries, human hair, plant material, paintings, and a portable writing desk.
The letters, beginning in 1799, include family correspondence and George Edward Paget’s professional correspondence.
There are a number of packets of letters and legal documents assembled by members of the family for particular historical purposes; the earliest document, an...
Dates:
1648; 1799 to 2020, mostly nineteenth century.
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room. Some material may be restricted for data protection reasons or because of its fragility.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Pembroke College Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL
Scope and Contents
Pembroke College Archive holds records of the College and its estates going back to its foundation in the 14th century and earlier. The College is fortunate to retain many of the early charters relating to its foundation by Marie de St. Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Significant estate collections include those for Framlingham and Saxtead in Suffolk, and Hardwick, Linton, Soham and Waresley in Cambridgeshire. Other records include governance records, bursarial records, tutorial records, property...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1200 - 2025
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Polish Roman Catholic Seminarians' Handbook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8920
Scope and Contents
The first part of the handbook contains 'Consuetudines scholasticae Communes toti Provinciae approbatae a RR. PP. P. Detio Striverio Prov. P. Paulo Boxa V. Prov. cum suis consultoribus. Posnan. Anno 1604', provincial scholastic rules or usages approved by Detius Striverius and Paul Boxa, at Poznan (now Poland), 1604 (23 pages). The second part, 'Ordinationes pro studiosis Collegii Brunsbergen ad instantiam Illmi. Epi. Varmien Simonis Rudnicki, et Senatus Brunsberg a R.P. Provinciali P. Paulo...
Dates:
1604-1610 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Property documents relating to the Manors of Dullingham and Great Bradley in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3975
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous collection of documents, including fines, recoveries, admissions, surrenders, leases and releases relating to Willingham, Dullingham, Carlton and Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, and Great Bradley, Suffolk. Many papers concern the Darby, Cooke, Turner, Smoothy, and Billingsley families.
Dates:
14th century - 19th century
Conditions Governing Access:
Open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Records relating to the Manors of Chesterton and Wicken, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3974
Scope and Contents
A collection of court rolls and books relating to the Manors of Chesterton and Wicken with deeds, wills and other associated documents.
Dates:
1285 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reynolds: The Papers of Joyce Maire Reynolds (1918-2022), classical epigrapher
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD
Scope and Contents
This archive comprises the working papers of Joyce Reynolds, including her own handwritten and typescript drafts of her academic publications, off-prints of those articles, correspondence with scholars seeking her advice on challenging inscriptions which required translation, copious photographs of Classical inscriptions, archaeological sites, architecture and statuary from Rome, the ancient city of Aphrodisias in western Turkey and from across Libya. Another aspect of professional life was...
Dates:
1912 - 2022
Fonds
Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9675
Scope and Contents
"Tracatus Vegetationum Generalis". Entire volume in Latin. Author thought to be Father Samuel Dömjen of Transylvania, who studied at Oxford before travelling to America to learn from Ben Franklin, with the intention of completing a world tour.10 chapters:Caput 1: De rusticorum FelicitateCaput 2: De Anatomia PlantarumCaput 3: De Principio VegetationisCaput 4: De Elementari Plantarum SuccoCaput 5: De Terebratione PlantarumCaput 6: De...
Dates:
1747
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir John Skene: 'Scotiae Veteres Leges et Constitutiones'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9301
Scope and Contents
An earlier MS of Regiam Majestatem. Scotiae veteres leges et constitutiones, 1607, describing laws of Scotland previous to James I (336 ff.). It contains laws from the time of Malcolm MacKenneth II to Robert III, as well as 'Leges Burgorum' (Laws of the Forest). On a flyleaf it reads 'Skenaei Leges Scotiae transcribed by James Mershall 1606 [=1607]. Leges Burgorum Scotiae'; the volume is signed throughout by Mershall. Most of the writing is in Latin, but the Laws of the Forest are in...
Dates:
1607
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Spanish transcripts
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4174
Scope and Contents
Includes: (fo. 1) transcript of Libro de re militari traslado de Latin en romançe y declarado por Christoral de Estrella [J.C. Calvete de Estrella] (Salamanca, 1571); (fo. 147v) 'Remedio efficacissimo y provado para Quitar el Dolor de Muelas'; (fo. 148) Capital alpha kai capital omega [Greek script] (4 times); (fo. 149) transcript of La vida del bien aventurado Padre Frai Juan Hortolano fraile lego del Monasterio de S. Francisco de Salamanca (Salamanca, 1569), by Luis de Escobar; (fo. 170v)...
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Stokes: the papers of George Gabriel Stokes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/STO
Scope and Contents
The majority of the collection is made up of a series of addresses sent to Stokes upon the occasion of his Jubilee as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1829 - 2020
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
The Papers of William Bull
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL
Scope and Contents
BULL 1 - 10 is made up of diaries kept faithfully by William (or Paul, as he was known to his family and close friends) Bull from 1878, when he was thirteen years old until some three weeks before his death in January 1931. The earlier diaries were illustrated and all the diaries are interleaved with letters, press cuttings, menus, theatre programmes and photographs relating to the events they describe. Twice yearly, in June and December, Bull compiled a 'Retrospect' of the past six months...
Dates:
1862 - 1943
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Thomas Orde-Powlett, Lord Bolton: Latin and Greek Verses
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9246
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed Latin and Greek verses, including 'Te Deum laudamus' and 'In obitum Ludovici XVI'; a sheet of 3 satirical portraits by Orde; a sketch portrait of an unnamed clergyman; and a sketch portrait of C.O. Goodford, Provost of Eton, 1877. The volume also includes printed pamphlets: Registrum regale: sive catalogus , Eton, 1774; another copy, extended to 1809 with MS additions; Honoratissimo viro Thomae Orde, Insulae cui nomen Vecti, praeposito... oden hanc inscriptam voluit...
Dates:
1774-1809 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Tractatus Geographicus': Treatises on Geography and Harmonics
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8987
Scope and Contents
Treatises in Latin, written in a single hand throughout, with points of compass in Dutch. The first part contains a Tractatus geographicus, a treatise of geography, hydrography, longitude and distance, including diagrams of points of compass, projections, calculations of distance, and a table of the longitude and latitude of German towns. The second part contains a treatise on harmonics.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd-Qq/western/post-medieval
Scope and Contents
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1530 - 1850
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library