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Christianity

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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A Book of Christian Prayers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4132
Scope and Contents

Private prayers for several occasions alternated with extracts from the Psalms, and with an extract from the Litany. Inside the front cover is the crest of Samuel Sandars.

Dates: 1590 (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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Algernon Herbert: Christus Cyclopeus, or an essay illustrative of the Christianity of Britain in the fifth and succeeding centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.617
Scope and Contents

Prepared for press, but never published.

Dates: 1850-1855 (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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Archimandrite Palladius: Ancient Traces of Christianity in China

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6403
Scope and Contents

A section transcribed from a book entitled Eastern miscellany (Vol. I), published in St Petersburg, 1877. The section is entitled 'Ancient Traces of Christianity in China', and is by the Archimandrite Palladius, a scholar of the time (157 folios).

Dates: 1877
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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Brooke Foss Westcott: Sermons and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8315
Scope and Contents Sermons: 1-14. Sermons preached at Peterborough Cathedral 1878-9 15-34. Sermons preached at Westminster Abbey 1884-9 35-38. Sermons preached as Bishop of Durham 1891-6Writings: 39-40. Greek poems, `Periclis mors' (MS), and a printed poem, Westcott's undergraduate prize poems, 1846-47 41. MS of Westcott's Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1889. 42. MS notes on Epistles of St. John. 43. Draft memorandum by the Rev. Dr. Westcott, on...
Dates: 1846 - 1896
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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Collection of official documents re Christianity in Malabar and Cochin

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.105.1
Scope and Contents

Includes (Malabar/Cochin): summary descriptions of inhabitants and economy of Malabar; edict of Chien-Lung, 9 Nov. 1785, trans. into Dutch; undated and unsigned documents re religion in Malabar and Cochin; letter from Pope Clement XIV to Florentius a Jesu Nazareno, bishop of Malabar, 23 July 1772 (copy); 'Commissie na Narapoly om daar te zeggen'.

Dates: 1772-1785 (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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Francis Crawford Burkitt: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7658
Scope and Contents The collection consists of letters (the majority to Burkitt); papers and lectures on various subjects; notebooks and rough notes; and newscuttings, mainly reviews of Burkitt's books. There is also material dealing with Burkitt's academic career, such as his Honorary Degrees and the Congresses he attended, and a number of papers and articles written by other scholars. Section A: 1-29. Letters by Burkitt to various correspondents. Section B: 1-1046. Letters to Burkitt from various...
Dates: 1859-1936 (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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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)
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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H. C. G. Moule, Bishop of Durham: correspondence and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9581
Dates: 1855-1920
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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Letters to Brooke Foss Westcott, and other papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8317
Scope and Contents

Letters from, among others, Dorothea Beale, George Bradley, William Moore Ede, George Kitchen, William Lake, Henry Savage, Arthur P. Stanley, Charles Vaughan, Henry Wace and Gerald Wellesley. There is also a collection of autographs containing many letters of German, French and Italian theologians and Church historians.

Dates: c. 1866-1912
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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Religion, 1954 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/35
Scope and Contents Working papers on religion, covering subjects such as church attendance; public morality; Sunday Schools; the relationship between leisure and religion; the decline of Methodism and Nonconformity and the increase of Roman Catholicism; the impact of Billy Graham and US-style evangelicalism in Britain; and preaching. Consists largely of press cuttings and articles, with published Research Services Ltd. report 'Religious Programmes on Independent Television' (July 1961). Also includes copy of...
Dates: 1954 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir William Bull

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL
Scope and Contents BULL 1 - 10 is made up of diaries kept faithfully by William (or Paul, as he was known to his family and close friends) Bull from 1878, when he was thirteen years old until some three weeks before his death in January 1931. The earlier diaries were illustrated and all the diaries are interleaved with letters, press cuttings, menus, theatre programmes and photographs relating to the events they describe. Twice yearly, in June and December, Bull compiled a 'Retrospect' of the past six months...
Dates: 1862 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Westcott Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8316
Scope and Contents Letters and papers of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, and also letters of his wife, Sarah Louisa Mary Westcott, and their son, Arthur Westcott. Comprises both personal and professional correspondence, as well as some letters evidently retained as part of a collecton of autographs. Correspondents include: 3rd Marquess of Bute; various landowners in County Durham, including 9th Lord Barnard, 6th Marquess of Londonderry and 2nd Earl of Ravensworth; Arthur Westcott, principally to Sarah...
Dates: 1880-1949
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 Hay: Religio philosophi

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8463
Scope and Contents

An unsigned manuscript translation into French of the fourth edition (London, 1771) of Hay's Religio philosophi. There are two inserted items in English: a letter from Arnold C. Klebs, 11 July 1929, at the front of the volume, and an obituary notice of Klebs by Erik Walker, 1943, at the back.

Dates: 1771 (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).