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Virgil's Geogics and Aeneid, copied by John Calverley
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7769
Dates:
1668
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Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8472
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript. 19 pages, in wrappers. Dated 24 October 1925 on p. 1. A letter from Leonard Woolf to Geoffrey Keynes, 16 August 1942, typescript signed, is tipped in between the front wrapper and p. 1. The manuscript is housed in a portfolio which also contains the following letters:Virginia Woolf to Margaret [Keynes], 20 June [1937], autograph, with envelope. There is in addition a photocopy of the letter, and a manuscript copy, possibly in the hand of Margaret Keynes....
Dates:
1925-1978
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Viscount St Albans, Autographed letter
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7565
Dates:
1875-1918
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Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to Hongkong [i.e. Hong Kong] in 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3038B
Scope and Contents
A printed book compiled from local journals and other sources, with prints of photographs by John Thomson inserted.Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1834-1900), second son of Queen Victoria, served in the Royal Navy, and in 1866 was promoted Captain. From 1867-68 he commanded HMS 'Galatea' on an extensive cruise which was cut short when he was wounded in Sydney. After returning to the U.K., 'Galatea' sailed for the Far East, and in the course of this cruise visited Hong Kong from...
Dates:
1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Visit of H.M. The Queen Mother to Uganda
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045R
Scope and Contents
The Queen Mother's visit included Kenya (5-18 February) and Uganda (18-27 February).
Dates:
1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Visit of H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to Bermuda, 28-29 April 1959, the last step on his 3 month Commonwealth Tour
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070E
Scope and Contents
Photographs measuring 255 x 205mm, taken by the Bermuda News Bureau.
Dates:
1959-04-28 - 1959-04-29
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Visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Uganda 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045I
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose mostly uncaptioned prints, chiefly relating to the visit of Duke and Duchess of York (later H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth) to Uganda in February-March 1925. An attempt has been made to identify the photographs from the published programme of the visit, and cuttings relating to it, which were presented with the photographs, and also other printed works such as 'King George VI: his life and reign' by John Wheeler-Bennett (1958). It seems likely that...
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1619
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3141
Scope and Contents
Coats of arms inserted in pen-and-ink, but several shields left blank. Occasional additions to the pedigrees in later hands. fo. i: 'The Booke belongeth to Mr Wm. Ayloffe', 'Acknowledged by me John Iuory' (late 17th-cent. hands). much scribbling inside covers. fos 54-9: torn out. fos 60v-62: index.
Dates:
1630
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Visitors' album (album amicorum) of the Aub family
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10175
Scope and Contents
An album containing texts and graphic illustrations principally by visitors to the residence of the Aub family in Mexico City. Contributors include Octavio Paz and Peter Scott.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
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File
Vita S. Gildae
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6317
Scope and Contents
'Vita S. Gildae Abbatis Ruyensis cognomento Sapientis, Auctore Monacho Ruyensi anonymo, qui saeculo undecimo ineunte vixit. Ex MS. cod. Ruyensi prodit integrior', transcribed from Luc D'Achery and Jean Mabillon, Acta sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, Saec. I (Paris, 1668), p. 138, for Henry Bradshaw. The writing is in the hand of A. Rogers. There are 56 folios, with the versos blank throughout.
Dates:
1886 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Vocabulary of Bajau
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 106
Scope and Contents
A vocabulary of Bajau (Sra) as spoken by the Bajans of the East Coast of British North Borneo, 84 pages, containing English and Bajan words in parallel columns, in alphabetical order of English. Some pencilled notes give the Tempasuk equivalent of certain words.
Dates:
1914-12
Conditions Governing Access:
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Volta River project: Tema Harbour, Preliminary Works
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448T
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints, measuring 115 x 100 mm, reprinted from original negatives (measuring 3½ x 2½ inches). The originals were taken by Mr. F.L. Simpson when he was handling the Tema Harbour Schedule at the Ministry of Communications and Works as an Assistant Secretary (Administrative Officer). Simpson provided the identifications and notes.
Dates:
1953 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Collection
Volumes of Sales Particulars
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Maps.PSV
Scope and Contents
Bound volumes of sales particulars for properties and land, mostly though not exclusively, in the Cambridge area. Probably compiled by E & E Foster, Solicitors (some items appear to be addressed to them, e.g. Maps.PSV.1.35). Many include manuscript annotations of prices, etc. Further sales particulars can be found by searching Cambridge University Library's Map Deaprtment's card catalogue and the Library's online catalogue (iDiscover).
Dates:
1793 - 1908
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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Vryheid, South Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058H
Scope and Contents
This album is associated with the 1st Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment, which departed from Fulwood Barracks, Preston, on 30 November 1899 to join Sir Redvers Buller’s army in Natal in January 1900. It documents the regiment’s service at Vryheid in the eastern Transvaal between 1900 and 1901, and includes images of its officers and men, encampment, defences, patrols, logistics and recreational activities, and the arrival of allied Zulu warriors. There are also images of the town...
Dates:
1901 - 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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W. B. Molique: quartet for pianoforte, violino alto and violincello composed for and dedicated to A. G. Kurtz Esq., Op. 71
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6003
Scope and Contents
(p. i) title; (p. 1) score. Signed and dated by the composer on p. 30. Inside front cover is attached bookplate with the letters MLThC.
Dates:
6 July 1862
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W. de S. Wickramesekere, 'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 96
Scope and Contents
'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.
Dates:
1835
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W. Hart: translation of Francois de Croy's 'Les Trois Conformities'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.30
Scope and Contents
'The Three Conformities, that is The Harmonie and Agreement of the Romish Church with Paganisme, Judaisme, and the auncient heresies. Written in French by Francis de Croy, G. Arth. and newly Englished by W. H. Gent.' This W. H. was W. Hart, as is clear from the signature to the Epistle Dedicatory, prefixed to the Translation, which is addressed 'To the Right Honorable and most vertuous Lady, the L. Harington.' On flyleaf: 'B.d.2-2'.
Dates:
1620 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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W. Harvey, Alphabet of arms; R. Glover, rules of heraldry
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9532
Scope and Contents
Heraldic miscellany, begun, as 'The Armes of diverse gentilmen alphabetically', by William Harvey, c.1560, and continued as the same by Gibbon Goddard, c.1595; then Regula aurea, notes on heraldry, precedents, etc., by Robert Glover, c.1600. William Harvey (d.1567), herald, was Norroy King of Arms, 1550-57, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1557-67. Gibbon (or Guibon) Goddard was Recorder of Lyme. Robert Glover (1543/4-88) was Somerset Herald, 1570-88. -1 volume (probably originally 2) in a modern...
Dates:
1560-1600 (Circa)
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W. Powell collection on Africa 1930s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M-O
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs on 125 brown loose album sheets, many with hand-written captions. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. There are two 'Title pages' which have been transcribed at Y304M and Y304N, dated 1934 and 1935-36. The album sheets which appear to...
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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W. Sauerlander: Letters to R. Manheim
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9496
Scope and Contents
66 letters, 64 from Sauerlander, 1974-77, with extensive notes on Manheim's translation of Grimm; 2 letters from JOHN WILLETT, 1976-77. [Manheim's letters to Sauerlander, with copy replies, 1968-76, are in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.]
Dates:
1974-1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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W.A. Davis Retirement Photograph 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303M
Scope and Contents
Framed photograph measuring 425 x 180 mm (print) and 590 x 260 mm (frame).It shows a group of 76 individuals (presumably Davis and his staff) outside a building. On the back is a label 'Presented to W.A. Davis Esq: Supdt. of Appln Surveys, on the eve of his retirement by the Staff of the Application and Field Sheet Departments. Surveyor General's Office. Colombo, 8th. May 1935'. William Arthur Davis, P.A.S.I., born in 1889, joined the Survey Department in Ceylon in 1913. He was...
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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Wairakei, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089U
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 75 x 95 mm and captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set and are contained in a printed envelope sub-titled 'The wonderland of thermal grandeur'. The views show waterfalls, rivers, geysers and boiling lakes. Some have additional handwritten notes on the reverse. Photographs (sold) by Wairakei Store.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Waitomo Caves, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089V
Scope and Contents
A collection of views measuring approximately 60 x 80 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Health Resorts Department.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Wallace Martin Lindsay: Latin Abbreviations in Early Miniscule
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4535
Scope and Contents
The Sandars Lectures for 1910, a copy by G.W. Webb, library assistant at Cambridge University Library, 40 folios. The copy has been corrected by Professor Lindsay and signed by him at the end. The versos are blank.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Walter A. Harding: undergraduate notebooks in practical zoology and biology
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9883
Scope and Contents
Notebooks containing pencil drawings and diagrams of zoological and biological subjects. Also includes one envelope of drawings of Indian leeches by A.C. Choudhary.
Dates:
c.1890
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