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Book of Psalms
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6181
Scope and Contents
Book of Psalms in shorthand, with a note at the front identifying the owner as John Chantlor.
Dates:
1670 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Prayer Union: Minute Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6761
Scope and Contents
Minute book, written in various hands, 199 folios. Attached to a flyleaf at the beginning is a letter from S.R. Smith to A.F. Scholfield, University Librarian, 10 October 1934.
Dates:
1891-1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Catalogue of Pamphlets regarding the French Wars of Religion
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6672
Scope and Contents
Consists of slips numbered 1-44 and pasted into the volume, 36 folios. The slips are preceded by a letter from Tilley to the Librarian, A.F. Scholfield, 19 April 1933.
Dates:
1933 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1810-1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Ely Dean and Chapter records
Fonds
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
Conditions Governing Access:
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English Translation of Psalms 1-69
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6161
Scope and Contents
Attributed to 'the late Joseph Fawcett'.
Dates:
1818 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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George Hull Bowers, Dean of Manchester: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8862
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers to Bowers as Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, especially from the patron, the Duke of Bedford; letters and papers about the foundation of Marlborough College; letters and papers to Bowers as Dean of Manchester, especially about the Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850; and papers on education, including a scheme for increasing the revenues of Rossall School, 1860. [1] Personal papers, including documents on Bowers' appointment to the Covent Garden Church; commonplace...
Dates:
1800-1932 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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History of France from Louis XII to Henri IV
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6756
Scope and Contents
Written in an early nineteenth century hand, and possibly a translation, 182 folios. Fos i, xi, 169, and the verso throughout are blank.
Dates:
1800 (Early 19th cent)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hugh Eveyln-White: Horae ad usum Sarum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6972-6973
Scope and Contents
Translation of the printed edition of Horae ad usum Sarum (F. Regnault, Paris, 1526). The translation was intended for publication. Most of the text is copied, the text and translation appearing on alternate leaves. A letter from K.V. Evelyn-White is attached to the flyleaf. The verso is blank throughout. Each volume has 518 folios.
Dates:
1920 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4607-5021
Scope and Contents
1. Family papers The papers contain material relating to the Actons of Naples: Commodore John Acton, his nephew J.F.E. Acton and H. Acton, a midshipman; material concerning the Dalberg family, particularly the family property on the Rhine, at Herrnsheim; a few manuscripts relating to Lord Granville; and the 1st Lord Acton's personal papers, including those covering his early years, his parliamentary career and interest in Ireland, relations with his family, and the period of his life spent...
Dates:
c. 1650 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Ludford: Treatise on Religion
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6412
Scope and Contents
A treatise on doctrinal subjects and the sacraments, without title, apparently composed by John Ludford, 91 folios: (fo. 1v) Latin verses; (fo.2) extract from Alexander Pope's Messiah; (fo. 3) list of contents; (fo. 6) Scriptural texts; (fo. 6v) text. Fos 43v-45 and 63 contain an extract from Milton's Paradise lost, Bk III, interrupted by 17 leaves (fos 46-62) containing the Communion Service from the Book of common prayer, printed. On fos 2, 5v and 62v are three French line engravings, of...
Dates:
1739
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Patrick: Explicatio locorum scripturae; Samuel Knight, Draft of the Life of Dean Colet
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.46
Dates:
Late seventeenth century - early eighteenth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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John Prettejohn: Lingusitic Exposition upon 'Sixteen Hebrew Texts'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6175
Scope and Contents
A linguistic exposition upon 'Sixteen Hebrew Texts', 1759, and 'Illustration of the Decalogue', 1762, with a copy by Prettejohn of Matthias Wasmuth, 'Explicatio duplicis Accentuationis Decalogicae' (apparently an embellished extract from the Vindiciae S. Hebraeae Scripturae, Rostock, 1664).
Dates:
1759-1762
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Mandell Creighton: Correspondence with Lord Acton and Academic Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6871-6872
Dates:
1860-1937 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Michael Servetus and Theodor Ludwig Lau: theological works
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6903
Scope and Contents
M. Servetus, 'Libri Duo Dialogorum de septem Erroribus in Trinitate', printed at Hagenau, 1532. fo. 35: blank. fo. 39: Lau, 'Meditiationes de Deo, Mundo et Homine', printed at Frankfurt, 1717. fo. 66: blank. fo. 69: Lau, 'Meditationes seu Theses dubiae philosophico-theologicae eruditorum Disquisitioni Religionis cuiusvis et Nationis', printed at Freystad, 1719. fo. 84: blank. Servetus' work is presumably copied either from the original printing, or from the Regensburg, ?1721 reprint,...
Dates:
1730 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Revisers of the English Bible: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6923-6950
Scope and Contents
Notebooks and loose papers created and accumulated by the companies and committees engaged in the revision of the English Bible. The papers are mainly in English, with small amounts of French and Ancient Greek.
Dates:
1870-1899
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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Sarah Clayton: A Breif Sum of the Principles of the Christian Religion
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3848
Scope and Contents
Autograph, with later additions by Jonathan Rashleigh. Authorship and date rest on inscription in same hand as main text, on first flyleaf. Text at pp. 1-88, with table of contents at p. 194. Remaining pp., originally blank, have been in part used for notes of parish charity accounts re Silverton, Devon, 1785-7, and for texts of sermons, 1789-92, apparently all in the hand of the Revd Jonathan Rashleigh, rector of Silverton from 1784. Rashleigh's mother was a daughter of Sir William Clayton...
Dates:
1733
Conditions Governing Access:
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Society of Friends, 'Christian and brotherly advices'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8378
Scope and Contents
'Christian and brotherly advices given forth from time to time by the yearly meetings in London.' There is a 'table of heads' at the beginning, listing the fifty-one subjects discussed at the meetings that are described in the volume. These include children, kings and governors, law, marriage, meeting houses, orphans, parliament, the poor, preachers, prisons, schools, servants, tithes, trading, wills and other issues effecting society. No. 51 describes the arrangements for the yearly...
Dates:
1755 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Society of Friends: Letters and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8366
Dates:
1661-1814
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
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Standish Hayes O'Grady: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6472-6568
Scope and Contents
Poems, songs, verse, stories, historical notes, mainly concerning Ireland and of Irish origin.
Dates:
1701-1900 (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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Treatise on the Sacraments
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6177
Scope and Contents
Incomplete treatise on the sacraments, beginning 'To prove the Reall presence of Christs body'.
Dates:
1625 (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
Fonds
William Frend: Correspondence and Transcripts.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7886-7887
Scope and Contents
Files of correspondence and transcripts, including letters from the following people: Rev. Francis Blackburne, father of Mrs. Frend, brother of Mrs. Lindsey, 3 letters. Sir Frances Burdett, 1 note, typed by Miss Antrobus. Edward Clark, geologist and traveller, 3 letters about Cambridge. W. Cogan, mathematician, 1 letter about maths, 1824. Miss M. Cooper, Stoke Newington, regarding local events, 1831. T. Dalby, mathematician. Rev. J. Disney, 1 letter about Frend's impending trial. George...
Dates:
1780-1841 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Winifred Nicholson: letters and cards to Helen Gleadlow, with related materials
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10486
Scope and Contents
11 letters and five postcards from Winifred Nicholson to her friend Helen Gleadlow, 1971-1973 and undated (some apparently after March 1974). Three of the postcards are addressed jointly to Helen and Rupert Gleadlow. All but one of the letters was written from Nicholson's home, Banks Head (alternatively written as 'Bankshead'), Brampton, Cumberland / Cumbria; the exception was written from Bath. The postcards were written from Greece.With a calendar for the year 1980 bearing a...
Dates:
1971-1987 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library