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Alfred Newton Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9839
Dates:
1798-1907
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Antoine Varillas: Histoire de Francois I, books 1-12, in anonymous Italian MS translation
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3841-3842
Scope and Contents
Probably made from 1st French edn (The Hague, 1684). Translation apparently unprinted. fos xiii, xiv, 395, 396: blank. fo. 397v: 'Bufin' (17th cent.) and scribbling in Italian.
Dates:
1685 (Circa)
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Arthur Bernard Cook: Notebooks and Theocritus Material
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7347
Scope and Contents
Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.
Dates:
1887-1940 (Circa)
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Articles on international treaties between Popes and rulers, late 16C
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9765
Scope and Contents
A collection of articles in Italian and Latin on international treaties, 1510-59, including agreements between Pope Leo X and the Swiss, and Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian, 1516, and Pope Paul III and Emperor Charles V, about heresy and Protestantism in Germany, 1546. Â1 volume, Sommario de capitalationi fatte fra diversi Pontefici, et Principi Christiani, Italian and Latin, in a single hand throughout, late 16C; in modern boards
Dates:
1550-1600
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Benedetto Varchi: Storia Fiorentia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4232
Scope and Contents
Vol. I, 502 folios: (p. iii) title; (p. vii) list of contents to both volumes; (p. 1) dedicatory epistle to Cosmo de' Medici, Duke of Florence; (p. 11) preface; (p. 15) text. The volume ends in Bk XI on p. 359 of the printed edition of 1721. The companion volume is missing.
Dates:
circa 1750 (copy of original printed in 1721)
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Blennerhassett Papers
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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
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Cinnus Historicus, a historical miscellany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3454
Scope and Contents
Beg.: 'I intending (Deare sonne John) to spend ...' Ends: '... and weepe for the Miseries of others.' Unprinted. Dated 1667 at p. 176. On flyleaf: 'Isaac Hodgson' (in 19th cent. hand).
Dates:
1667
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Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3095
Scope and Contents
Contents: Geoffrey Keating, MS copy of his History of Ireland, printed by Irish Texts Soc., 4 vols, London, 1902-14; 'Ionnsuighe Mhuighe Leana', text belonging to the 'short recension' of the MS described by K. Jackson, Cath Maighe Léna, Dublin, 1938; 'Cath Mhuighe Muchroimhe', not the version edited by W. Stokes (Revue Celtique 13 (1892), but probably that in modern Irish mentioned by him at pp. 428-9; Toruigheacht Cheallachain Caisil, MS version of text edited by A. Bugge, Oslo, 1905;...
Dates:
June 1759
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Crawford: Papers of Michael Hewson Crawford (1939-), ancient historian and numismatist, regarding 'Imagines Italicae' Papers: Italic inscriptions, numismatics and epigraphy of the ancient Mediterranean
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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CRFD
Scope and Contents
These working papers pertain to research and correspondence undertaken by Professor Michael H. Crawford as principal editor of Imagines Italicae: A Corpus of Italic Inscriptions (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 110). London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 2011. This is a three volume catalogue, and associated database, of inscriptions in early Latin, Umbrian and Oscan, created under the aegis of University College...
Dates:
1992-2016
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Darwin Correspondence Project Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10447
Scope and Contents
The archive is divided into two sections, covering the Bennington, Vermont, office and the Cambridge, UK, office. There may therefore be some duplication. Most aspects of the DCP's activities are covered, including appeals for funding, the search for letters, editorial policy, early computerisation, reports, publicity, outreach, and correspondence.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-2022
Conditions Governing Access:
Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Additionally, some material is closed following the Archive's confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)). Some material is closed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000: Section 41 information given in confidence. Please see individual catalogue entries for details.
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Edmund Leigh: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.102
Scope and Contents
Contains notes and extracts on philosophy, astronomy, natural history and medicine. fo. 2: 'Edmundus Lëus 1607'.
Dates:
1607
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English translation of Khairuddin Muhammad of Allahbad's History of Jaunpur
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3866
Scope and Contents
Oval Indian stamp at fo. 85v. Attached at end are 3pp. of notes on villages in the district.
Dates:
Sept. 1857-Apr. 1858
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Eugene O'Curry: Leabhar na Huidri
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6624
Scope and Contents
A facsimile transcript (including coloured initials) of the Leabhar na Huidri made by Eugene O'Curry, 152 folios. The transcript was probably made for Dr J. H. Todd, whose bookplate is inside the front cover and who has made occasional marginal notes in pencil. Notes by the transcriber are on on slips attached to fos 127 and 139. Many leaves are left blank to indicate gaps in the archetype.
Dates:
1841
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Francis Blomefield: Historical notes on Suffolk and Cambridgeshire parishes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3390
Scope and Contents
(pp. viii-196) Suffolk; (pp. 215-365) Cambridgeshire. Both counties ordered alphabetically. The vol. has been ruled for accounts. p. 295: 'I was here [Impington, Cambridgeshire] Ap. 9, 1726', with (p. 296) sketch of Impington Church. Stamps, inscriptions, and bookplates of Blomefield, Craven Ord, and Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Dates:
1723-1726
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Frederic William Maitland: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6987-7009
Scope and Contents
Printers sheets, lecture notes and notes on constitutional history and law.
Dates:
1884-1908
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Fuentès y Guzmàn: History of Guatemala
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6625
Scope and Contents
The first part of the History of Guatemala written in 1690 by Francisco Antonio de Fuentès y Guzmán and dedicated to Charles II of Spain, 526 folios. The work is divided into a dedication (fo. iv), a preface (fo. 1v), sixteen books of text (fo.7) and a summary of contents (fo. 518). On fo. 487v is a rough plan of the town of Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico, with rough drawings of buildings. On a fly-leaf is the name 'J. M. Bolio M. 1916', and on fo. i is the following note: 'The concluding two...
Dates:
1800 (Circa (copy of the original of 1690))
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Gardening diary kept by members of the Darwin family at the Mount, Shrewsbury
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10393
Content Description
Contemporary calf binding. Large quarto. The perpetual diary contains annual, single line entries for each day of the year. Written in ink with some pencil entries, in three different hands. Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848), doctor and father of the naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) purchased the land in 1796 and built the Mount around 1800. It was a large house and gardens overlooking the banks of the River Severn. Robert Darwin initiated the diary on 1 September 1838 and...
Dates:
1838 - 1865
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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George Wilson Meadley: Annotated 'Memoirs of William Paley'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8951
Scope and Contents
Copy of the first edition of Memoirs of William Paley, interleaved and annotated in pen and pencil with supplementary information from several sources, including 'F' [William Frend], 'Quarterly Review' and 'Lambert'. Loose letters and papers: copy letters, Meadley to Earl Grey, and reply, 1818, on toleration for Roman Catholics and Dissenters; Francis Huish to Trevilian, c.1808; S. Hodgson to Meadley, 1809; J.K. Lewis to Miss Meadley, undated, used by Meadley for drafts of his memoir; and...
Dates:
1808-1831 (Circa)
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Hardinge Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hardinge
Scope and Contents
The diplomatic letters and papers of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, accumulated during his years in the Diplomatic Service. They include papers from his many foreign appointments including Constantinople, Tehran, St. Petersburg, and Paris. He served as Viceroy of India 1910-16 and a large amount of correspondence relates to this period. Lord Hardinge also accompanied King Edward VII as Minister in Attendance on His Majesty's journeys abroad. The bulk of the collection consists of original...
Dates:
1880-1922
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Henry Ellis: Naval journal on 'HMS Styx' during the Xhosa [Cape Frontier] and Burmese Wars
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9420
Scope and Contents
1 volume, 210 pp. of journal text covering the period1852-53. With loose sheets inserted, including page from Illustrated London News, 5 Feb. 1853, with illustration and note on 'Kaffir prisoners at the Cape' [historic title]; notes on Ascension Island, n.d.; 'On passage from Ascension to South Coast', n.d.; 'Notes on South Coast,' n.d. Bookplate: given to Michael Rome Bouquet by Mrs. Dunn (Ellis' niece), Apr. 1935. Note that the contents of the journal contain racist and outdated...
Dates:
1852-1853
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Henry Paine Stokes: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8717
Dates:
1878-1953 (Circa)
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Hermann Kant: correspondence received in response to 'Ein offener Brief an die Junge Welt'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10455
Scope and Contents
Correspondence received by Hermann Kant in response to his article 'Ein offener Brief an die Junge Welt' ('Junge Welt', Nr. 237, Berlin, Monday 9 October 1989, pp. 10-11). With a copy of the newspaper including the article, photocopies of printed texts, and a letter from Hans-Dieter Weyrich to Stefan Heym.
Dates:
1989-1990
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The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed.
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Historia Arabum, extracts from part I
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3869
Scope and Contents
Appended by Abraham Ecchellensis to his edition of the 'Chronicon Orientale', Paris, 1651. The extracts are from chs 20 (fos 1-15), 4 (fos 16-19), 6-9 (fos 20-67), 11-19 (fos 68-162), 21-3 (fos 163-87), and are written on the recto throughout. There are a few notes on the verso, in the same hand: in Latin at fos 49v-50v, 59v, 62v, and in English at fos 53v and 67v, as well as at foot of fo. 1. Verso otherwise blank, as are fos 188-92. Index in same hand at fos i-vi.
Dates:
1816 (date of copy from watermark)
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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)
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History of Ireland and Related Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4341
Scope and Contents
An anonymous historical compilation in two parts, each preceded by a preface, and copiously annotated. Book I (fos 1-56) comprises 47 chapters, consisting of annals of the history of Ireland to the time of Conn Cedchathach, said by the author to be taken mainly from the works of Keating, O'Flaherty and Warner, and serving as the introduction to Book II. Book II consists of translations from Irish of (1) the narrative of the battle of Maighe Lena (fos 58-92), from a manuscript of the 'short...
Dates:
1790 (Circa)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library