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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

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400th Anniversary of the King James Bible, 1989 - 2012

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ANL/1/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of posthumous material concerning commemorations of Andrewes and research into his life and work.

Dates: 1989 - 2012
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'Active Service Testament', 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/DOU/2/2
Scope and Contents

Copy of the New Testament specifically printed for troops including 'Lord Roberts's Message to the Troops'. There are 2 inscriptions on the first page, the first records the volume as belonging to E. S. Dougall of Brookside, Tunbridge Wells and the second gives the volume to Dougall and is initialled 'E. E. D.' [Emily Elizabeth Dougall, his mother] and is dated 23 July 1916.

Dates: 1916
 Fonds

Arthur William Young: Catalogue of Bibles in his Possession

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6751
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of Bibles in Young's possession, written on 239 blue slips and pasted into the volume, 94 folios. The price, provenance, and date of purchase are generally included. The bibles were donated to the Library with the catalogue in 1933.

Dates: 1863-1913 (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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Biblical genealogies, with text and notes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.86
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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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: 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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Edward Lively: Treatise on the superiority of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament over the Vulgate

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3066
Scope and Contents

With preface addressed to Sir Francis Walsingham as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster (1587-90). Autograph.

Dates: 1589 (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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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: 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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Every action whatever is the effect of a motive, 1838-09-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 91: 25-28
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1838-09-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Francis Crawford Burkitt: Transcript of the Passio Machabeorum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5339
Scope and Contents

Made from a 13th century manuscript at S. Maria de Bona Spe, diocese of Cambrai, 17 folios.

Dates: 1884
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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Gustavus Adolphus Schutt Schneider: Selections from the Theological Correspondence of Fenton John Anthony Hort

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6597
Scope and Contents Selections of correspondence on theological subjects, 1852-1892, compiled by G.A.S. Schneider dealing mainly with textual criticism of the New Testament, 1022 pages. The letters are arranged chronologically under five subject headings, with a preface and indexes. The versos are blank throughout. The correspondence is principally with B.F. Westcott, Bishop of Durham, and, from 1864, with A.A. Vansittart. About 250 of the letters are drawn upon. A small number of letters have been transcribed...
Dates: 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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'Harmony of the Bible': chronological summary of the Bible in parallel columns

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.87
Scope and Contents

Different references to the same event are quoted opposite to each other. fo. 14: coloured drawings illustrating Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Dan. ii) and the symbolic beasts described in Dan. vii and viii. fo. 17: coloured drawing of the beast mentioned in rev. xiii, below shield containing black imperial eagle on gold ground.

Dates: 1600 (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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Joannes Wilmet: Adversaria Biblica

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.94
Scope and Contents

A series of critical notes upon various Biblical texts.

Dates: 1773-1806
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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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: 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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Nicolaus Schroeder: Commentary upon the minor Old Testament prophets, Joel to Zechariah

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2637
Scope and Contents

Except in the case of Zephaniah, each book has a title page preceding the text of the commentary, on which a later hand has added lists of published commentaries and related works on the prophet in question, published between 1747 and 1817. There is no such list for Zechariah. The ascription is to Schroeder on all such title-pages, except those for Joel and Amos.

Dates: 1780 (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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Observations on the Prophesies, c 1700

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3989
Scope and Contents

'Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St John'. A collection of fragments assembled by Newton's half-nephew Benjamin Smith with a view to publication, and printed posthumously, 1733.

Dates: c 1700
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Revisers of the English Bible: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers

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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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Robert Lubbock Bensly: Notes on IV Esdras

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5954-5957
Scope and Contents

Notes and collations made for an intended edition of IV Esdras.

Dates: 1850 (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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Scripture References

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6376
Scope and Contents

A list of scriptural references, arranged for the whole Bible verse by verse, with a few verses omitted, 195 folios. There are occasional footnotes and other annotations. At fo. 176 are annotations to various passages from Genesis to Isaiah. Inside the front cover is 'John Bell' and 'G. Dav[id] 25/11/22'.

Dates: 1800 (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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William Robertson Smith: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7476
Scope and Contents Comprises: lectures on various subjects including Old Testament poetry, Old Testament liturgy and general Biblical subjects; notebooks on the Old Testament and other Biblical subjects, and Arabic and Semitic language notes; sermons arranged in canonical order; papers relating to William Robertson Smith's libel trial for alleged heresies and errors; memoranda, including early family correspondence and accounts of family members; assorted newscuttings, rough notes and a small number of...
Dates: 1860-1894 (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).