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Fonds
Alonso de Cardenas: Relation of the State of England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8992
Dates:
1638-1656
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
Blennerhassett Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7486
Scope and Contents
Personal papers, correspondence, notes, drafts and writings of Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett, chiefly, and her husband, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett. This includes a series of Lady Blennerhassett's working notebooks, collections of reviews and her correspondence with family members, friends and prominent individuals including Ignaz von Dollinger, Lord Acton, Franz Xaver Kraus and members of the German nobility. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett's papers include copies of his speeches, political...
Dates:
[1850s]-1917
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).
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Fonds
Commonplace Book
Fonds
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)
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
Correspondence of Max Aub and members of his family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10174
Dates:
1916 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Discourse on present state of monarchy, 1662
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9767
Scope and Contents
Discurso Hispano-politico sobre el stado presente de la Monarquia, in Spanish, signed 'Elabad D. Joseph Arnolfini de Illucas', 31 MAR 1662. With a modern typescript summary.
Dates:
1662
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).
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Fonds
Francisco Xavier Alegre: 'Arte poetica de M. Boileau'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10424
Scope and Contents
A translation into Castilian verse by Francisco Xavier Alegre of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 'L'Art Poétique', with a dedicatory epistle to a disciple of the translator.
Dates:
c. 1780
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Fray Gerónimo de Areviano: Documents proposing his Beatification
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9224
Scope and Contents
Material compiled for proposing the beatification of Fray Gerónimo de Areviano (1576-[1651]), Spanish cleric of the Augustinian College in Alcala de Henares, apparently collected by Benito de Aste, Rector of the College. There are two heavily corrected accounts of de Areviano's life, miracles and sanctity; a memorial by Fray Hernando de Padilla, Provincial of the Order for Castille; questions to 28 witnesses, with the answers; 23 letters or signed declarations; printed Aviso and...
Dates:
1651-1652
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Jardine Matheson Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM
Scope and Contents
The collection contains papers covering the activities of Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd, its predecessors, its subsidiaries and associated firms.
• The company's business history is covered in large series of accounts (A) and correspondence (B-E, J-K).
• The rest of the collection is comprised of legal documents (F), printed commercial circulars and periodicals (G), documents in Chinese (H), papers of other companies (I), and miscellaneous papers (L).
• The collection is predominantly in...
Dates:
1766-1969
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Letter on likelihood of France declaring war on Spain, 1665
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9766
Scope and Contents
Discorso politico sobre si Françiamobera gerra, in Spanish, signed 'Elabad Arnolfini', Madrid, 24 DEC 1665, in a modern card cover With a modern typescript summary.
Dates:
1665
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Marqués de la Ensanada: Charges put to him, and his replies
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9296
Scope and Contents
'Cargos hechos al Marqués de la Ensanada, y sus Respuestas', 7 charges concerning the Marqués de la Ensanada's reform policy in the Spanish American colonies, and his refutations of the allegations, followed by a report of the dismissal of ministers, 21 July 1754 (28pp.).
Dates:
1775
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Martin Sarmiento: Scheme for library for a Spanish lawyer
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9412
Scope and Contents
1 volume, in Spanish, 221pp., dated 1775 but perhaps compiled c.1748, Cathalogo de algunos libros curiosos y selectos para una libreria de un particular que desee comprar de tres a quatro mil tomos; at p.212, explanation of rationale behind choice of books.
Dates:
1748
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
Roger Law Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275
Dates:
c late 1940s-2021
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the collection is restricted pending cataloguing. Researchers wishing to access the collection require permission from the Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts and will need to sign a Data Release form. 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
Spanish Medical Notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8919
Scope and Contents
Undated medical notebook, mentioning several German doctors, including Dr. Rupizus of Dresden (possibly Heinrich Rupitzius), Dr. Heim of Berlin, and 'Canones terapeuticos del Dr. Pitschaft'' (possibly Johann August Pitschaft, 1783-1848).
Dates:
1825 (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
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).
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Cambridge University Library