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Fonds
Legal papers, yearbooks, reports
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
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)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Long: the papers of Roger Long
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
Fonds
Lucattinis, Domenico de. Liber de elementis
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 — Volume: Add. 8960
Matthew Bossulus: Institutiones Dialecticae
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An unpublished volume on dialectics, containing two treatises, 'Matt[haei] Bossuli historici Regii Institu[ti]ones Dialecticae, quibus omnis disserendi doctrina pluribus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
Reference Code: GBR/1058/MIN
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Muniments
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
Reference Code: GBR/1058/NEI
Dates:
1868 - 1943
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Ortelius: the papers of Abraham Ortelius
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ORT
Dates:
c. 1574-1598; 1914 - 1999
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Papers of the Paget Family
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
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1200 - 2021
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Polish Roman Catholic Seminarians' Handbook
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reynolds: The Papers of Joyce Maire Reynolds (1918-2022), classical epigrapher
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD
Dates:
1912 - 2022
Fonds
Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir John Skene: 'Scotiae Veteres Leges et Constitutiones'
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Spanish transcripts
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Stokes: the papers of George Gabriel Stokes
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
Fonds
The Papers of Sir William Bull
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
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Thomas Orde-Powlett, Lord Bolton: Latin and Greek Verses
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 — Volume: Add.8987
'Tractatus Geographicus': Treatises on Geography and Harmonics
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Walter Johnson and Maurice Johnson: notes on civil and canon law
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10420
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled 'Cases in civil law, and in the canon law. MSS. Collected at Cambridge by the Reverend Walter Johnson LLB. rector of Red Marshall in the diocoes of Durham SGSS. during his attending the lectures of the learned Dr Francis Dickens the Law professor at Cambridge. With others by Maurice Johnson of the Hon:ble Society of the Inner Temple London. And precedents, formulae, references and remarkes in cases of administration to intestates etc. MSS MJ No. CXXXIV'. The legal...
Dates:
1720s-1740s?
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Widdrington : letters and orations.
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WIDDRINGTON
Scope and Contents
pp. 1-76 from front and 1-25 from back. Many blanks between.Front:1-9: Oratio panegyrica habita in Aula St Joh. Cantab. Die initiationis Regis Jacobi. Presumably 1684, though the account in Cooper’s Annals, iii. 606 does not indicate a university-wide event in St John’s hall.10-20: Oratio in Inauguratione Augustissimi Regis Caroli. [May 1660]21-6: Gloriosior Jupiter fulmine quam Imbre Aureo. 166927-9: untitled and undated address to the U. Possibly soliciting...
Dates:
1650 - 1684
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds — Container: LPW
Wilkinson: The Papers of Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LPW
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers produced by L P Wilkinson from his undergraduate days right through to his death in 1985, including undergraduate essays, radio broadcasts, notes and drafts for his unpublished 'Six Characters' and his successful 'A Century of King's' and 'Kingsmen of a Century' as well as details of his obituary and funeral.
Dates:
1928 - 1985
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