History
Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:
1688: Tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution, 1987-07 - 1989-07
A Collection of Historical and Legal Tracts, seventeenth century
Annals of Zonaras, seventeenth century
An English translation, with additions, of a portion of the Annals of Zonaras. This is divided into three portions, styled History xvii, xviii, and xix, Of Judith, Of Tobias, and Of the kingdoms of Media and Persia. It is probably translated from Cousin's French Translation. There are corrections throughout in a different hand. this is a portion of Lady Wenman's translation, of which the rest is in Dd.01.18 and Dd.01.19.
Antoine Varillas: Histoire de Francois I, books 1-12, in anonymous Italian MS translation
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.
Archives of the Faculty of History, 1876 - 1999
The records document the full range of institutional operations, from delivery of the curriculum and examining at undergraduate and graduate level, to design and upkeep of the faculty buildings. Papers on Tripos reform are particularly extensive. They include the papers of the Cambridge Historical Society.
Arthur Bernard Cook: Notebooks and Theocritus Material
Early notebooks, notes for Cook's lectures, and material relating to Theocritus.
Benedetto Varchi: Storia Fiorentia
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.
Biography of a Nation, 1954-05 - 1980-06
Biography of a Nation, 1955-07 - 1956-03
Press cuttings of reviews of the book by JEP and Angus Maude.
Cinnus Historicus, a historical miscellany
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).
Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
Correspondence between GJ and Lord Thomas of Swynnerton [Hugh Thomas], 1969 - 1994
Subjects include: Thomas's history of the Cold War; the Cuban Missile Crisis (including typescript from [? 'Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom']); and articles by Thomas on Europe.
Courtney Stanhope Kenny papers, 1708 - 1930
Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.
English translation of Khairuddin Muhammad of Allahbad's History of Jaunpur
Oval Indian stamp at fo. 85v. Attached at end are 3pp. of notes on villages in the district.
Eugene O'Curry: Leabhar na Huidri
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.
Francis Blomefield: Historical notes on Suffolk and Cambridgeshire parishes
(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.
Frederic William Maitland: Papers
Printers sheets, lecture notes and notes on constitutional history and law.
Fuentès y Guzmàn: History of Guatemala
F.W. Maitland manuscripts, 1884 - 1920
Also with a scrapbook compiled by Fredegond Shove
GJ's school and university notebooks, 1917 - 1923
Historia Arabum, extracts from part I
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.
Historical Tracts, c 1592
Historical Tracts, late seventeenth century
Historical Tracts, c 1590
History of France from Louis XII to Henri IV
Written in an early nineteenth century hand, and possibly a translation, 182 folios. Fos i, xi, 169, and the verso throughout are blank.