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Catalogue by A.G. Dew-Smith of his library, 298 folios. Many leaves are blank, apparently to allow for the insertion of fresh entries. Fos ir - xlix contain an alphabetical index of the books catalogued. The actual descriptive catalogue begins on fo. 1. The arrangement of entries is neither chronological nor alphabetical.

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In Latin.

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'A supplement to the printed catalogue of the manuscripts in the publick library', possibly compiled by T. Parne.

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Transcript for Henry Bradshaw of John Jackson's 'Supellex Literaria'.

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Catalogue of the William Cole manuscripts in the British Museum, transcribed for George A. Matthew from Frederic Madden's list.

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Catalogues of various Italian libraries and collections. Includes the Vatican Library and the Medici Library at Florence.

Scope and Contents Memoirs (volumes 1-3 largely relate to upbringing, war service and work at the Commonwealth Institute; volumes 4-11 relate to the period after Bowen's retirement in 1978 and have little reference to the Commonwealth), including personal documents, certificates, photographs, drawings, correspondence, essays, notes, maps, newspaper extracts, obituaries, exhibition catalogues and reviews, lectures and drawings. Together with two sketchbooks, a selection of original drawings, and two published...

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Booksellers correspondence, notes on early printed books, book bindings, specific works and libraries, miscellaneous correspondence, catalogues and bibliographical memoranda.

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List of manuscripts in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. For each item there is the title with a summary description, size, material, language, and date (when ascertainable).

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9 volumes, 1882-99, chronological catalogues of antiquities and ethnographical material: date of acquisition / article and description / price / location in various residences ('Place where it might be found', annotated to show rearrangement of collection, later 'Deposited at' / 'Transferred to'), many items illustrated with pen-and-wash drawings by G.F. Waldo Johnson and others.

Scope and Contents Catalogue of the library of Georg Kloss, written in the hand of Friedrich Neumetzer. 2 vols, 45 x 28 cm. Bookplates of Georgius Kloss, M.D., Francofurti ad Moenum. The catalogue is arranged according to provenance in five groups, the first four of which are in alphabetical order. The versos are blank, except for occasional additions. Text is in seven columns across the page: reference, author and title, size, place of publication, date, and two columns for notes, mostly left blank, but with...

Scope and Contents A transcript of a catalogue of the works of patristic and medieval writers on monastic libraries. Writers are arranged in alphabetical order, and under each appear the titles of their separate works with the number of vols to each, incipits, and explicits, and numbers indicating the libraries in which they are to be found. A key is at fos 10-12. Preface at fos 1-10. Fos 149-51: list of Biblical commentators. P. 152: six lines of verse, beginning 'Qui legis hunc librum scriptoris Rex miserere...

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Arranged by size and content. Includes (fos 18-22v) catalogue of the Library's Arabic and Hebrew MSS, complied by Jacob Georg Adler.

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Transcript made by J.J. Green of a catalogue of books bequeathed in 1627 to John Day, son of Lionel Day, by John Day the divine, 29 folios. The books were probably for the most part from the library of John Day the printer. On fos 1-3 are notes on a manuscript commonplace book of Lionel Day (Phillipps MS 2404), which was in the possession of J.J. Green in 1906. On fos 23 and 24 are further notes on Lionel Day and his family, and on fos 25-28 notes on the printer John Day and his family.

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Inventory of 1452, transcribed by Henry Bradshaw, 26 folios, including: (fo. 17) H. Bradshaw, 'The University Library in 1582'; (fo. 20) Bradshaw, 'Notes on the organ screen of King's College'. On the flyleaf is a list of contents in hand of John Willis Clark. The versos are blank throughout.

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A list of catalogues of libraries, 1595-1831, 12 folios.

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'Repertorium sive index librorum latine et grece bibliothece Conventus Sancti Marci de Florentia ordinis Predicatorum', transcribed for J.W. Clark from the original catalogue in the State Archives, Modena, 64 folios. Attached to a fly-leaf are letters from G. Jervis to J.W. Clark, 14 June 1898 and 13 and 27 August 1898. Inside the front cover is the following note: 'To be given to the University Library, after Dr. M.R. James has made whatever use of it he pleases J.W. Clark 29 Aug. 1898'.

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A catalogue of books in the Royal Library of Cambridge University Library, mainly incunabula, in the hand of Thomas Gray. The arrangement, in two shelves, antedates that of F.S. Parris' catalogue (1752).

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Catalogue of marble sculpture presented to the University of Cambridge by John Disney of The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex.

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A catalogue of the books in Totnes church library, Devon, made on slips, 298 folios. Accompanying the catalogue is a draft article describing the library for the Totnes church parish magazine, and a letter from T.H. Elliott to W.H.H. Elliott, 22 October 1903.