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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 361 Collections and/or Records:

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Cover Stories: The Bible (Radio Scotland), 1994-12-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 5/56
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Cassette recordings of speeches and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP.

Dates: 1994-12-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: As the original cassettes are too fragile to play, it would be helpful if access copies could be ordered in advance, unless the catalogue states that a copy exists already.
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Day of prayer, 1979-08 - 1980-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/3/10
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence on a national day of prayer for Zimbabwe.

Dates: 1979-08 - 1980-02
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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De Restitutionis Natura et Necessitate, Eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.01.13-MS Mm.01.14
Scope and Contents

Written out in for the press, with occasional corrections in the author's hand. Every second leaf (with a few exceptions) has a signature, in the same hand as the corrections. See also Mm.01.12.

Dates: Eighteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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De Sepultura, by Sir Henry Spelman, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.32
Scope and Contents

'De Sepultura. Written by Sr John Spillman, Knight, against sellinge of Graves and Pewes in the Church.' Sir Henry Spelman was the author of this work.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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De valore episcopatus Norwici et de primitiis et decimis eiusdem, Mid seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.17
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains the names of all the ecclesiastical benefices within the diocese of Norwich, with a statement of the first-fruits, tenths and procurations due from each of them, and of the patrons and incumbents in 1632.

Dates: Mid seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Determinations, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.11
Scope and Contents

Determinations on theological subjects.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Dialogue on religion, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.04.08
Scope and Contents

'A dialogue betwixt the Ladie Vineger widdow, Mr Camelion a puritan minister and Mr Deceaver a counterfeit Jewe; wherein the supposed Jew goes about to prove his religion by scripture against the phantasticall puritans that will admit nothinge but scripture'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Diary of Anne Elizabeth Fisher, vol II, 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO/2
Scope and Contents Includes small sketch of an anteater and a pressed leaf, with list of books read in 1853-54 at back. Notable entries include: (July 1853) visits to the Royal Academy, with details of some of the paintings seen; (16 July) move into the new house, 14 York Place; (20 July) visit to see the 'Aztec Lilliputians' at Hanover Square Rooms; (12 August) rumour that Professor [William Webster] Fisher is to marry Kate Woodham; (22-30 August) holiday in the Isle of Wight, returning via Portsmouth and a...
Dates: 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30
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Discourse on God's mercy, c. 1700

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.05.23
Scope and Contents

A practical discourse concerning the magnitude of God's mercy written originally in Latin by Erasmus, and done into English by Robert Warren, student of Christ's College in Cambridge'; begins, after the dedication in Latin to John Moore, 'Since I intend this day, most dearly beloved brethren ...'.

Dates: c. 1700
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Discourse on religion, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.45
Scope and Contents

'Truth cannot be contrary to truth: or, a discourse concerning the agreement of natural and revealed religion', beginning 'The rules which I shall lay down …'. In the same volume are two loose sheets containing notes 'Concerning the salvation or happiness of men's souls'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Dissertation, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.14
Scope and Contents

'Dissertatiuncula de naturis regionum et moribus gentium diversarum, et earundem causis'; incomplete. The dedication, 'Archiepiscopo Eboracensi', is signed 'Johannes Browne'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Divinity commonplace book, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.44
Scope and Contents

Contains extracts, chiefly from the Fathers, alphabetically arranged under various headings. The last few leaves contain an index of subjects.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Documents and Letters on the Controversy about Ecclesiastical Habits, Sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.14
Scope and Contents 1. ff. 1–3. 'De tollendo vestium peculiarium usu in ministerio Ecclesiæ sententia D. Joannis Alasco conscripta anno quinto regni regis Edouardi ejus nominis sexti Sept. 20.' 2. ff. 3–5. 'Petrus Martyr D. Hopero.' 3. ff. 6–8. 'Domino Joanni a Lasco M. Bucerus.' This is followed by some extracts from Calvin. 4. ff. 9, 10. 'D. Johanni Hopero Bucerus'. 5. f. 11. 'Petrus Martyr domino Bucero.' 6. ff. 12–14. Argumenta Petri Martyr de apparatu vestium. This is in the form...
Dates: Sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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 Byles Cowell: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1810-1903
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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Exercises in Genesis, by Alexander Ross, 1638

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.05.19
Scope and Contents 'The first centurie of Divine Naturall and Morall Exercises in Genesis, containing a 100 choise questions with their solutions upon the first 14 chapters of the sayd booke, by Alexander Ross, his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinarie.' A portion of a dedication to the author's diocesan is pasted on to f. 2, as is also an address 'To the Reader' on f. 10, and several notes in other portions of the book. Prefixed (ff. 1-10) are two tables of contents, and an alphabetical index; ff. 11-13 are blank....
Dates: 1638
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Exposition of the catechism, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.10
Scope and Contents

An exposition of the Roman Catholic catechism, beginning (after the dedication to the Second Person of the Trinity) 'All knowledges arts and scienses …'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Exposition of the second epistle of St Paul to Timothy, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.06.24
Scope and Contents

Begins 'Interpretaturus secundam ...'.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Extracts from letters, [c 1640]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.76
Scope and Contents

A collection of extracts from letters written from Stockholm in October and November 1636 or 1637 by John Durie, who was endeavouring to bring about a union between the churches of England and Sweden.

Dates: [c 1640]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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 Hull Bowers, Dean of Manchester: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8862
Scope and Contents Letters and papers to Bowers as Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, especially from the patron, the Duke of Bedford; letters and papers about the foundation of Marlborough College; letters and papers to Bowers as Dean of Manchester, especially about the Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850; and papers on education, including a scheme for increasing the revenues of Rossall School, 1860. [1] Personal papers, including documents on Bowers' appointment to the Covent Garden Church; commonplace...
Dates: 1800-1932 (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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Heads of a sermon, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.13
Scope and Contents

The sermon is on Psalm xxv. 7, with the beginning of a discourse on justification.

Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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Heads of sermons, Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.13
Scope and Contents

Contains short notes; many leaves have been torn out and the greater part of the volume is blank.

Dates: Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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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)
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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History of the apostles, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.04
Scope and Contents 'Christ and his apostles: or the history of the four evangelists, St Matthew, St Marke, St Luke, St John at large, written and distinguished in such manner as they may with great facility be read and understood; together with the history of the actes of the apostles at large, harmonsied out of the epistles of them as touching the story, with an abridgement of the said harmony as touching the story only with the Revelation of St John at large, together with the abridgement of the prophecies...
Dates: Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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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History of the persecution of English Roman Catholics, 1680s or 1690s

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.04.03
Scope and Contents

‘Persecutionis Catholicorum Anglicanæ et conjurationis presbiterianæ hystoria. Auctore P. Warnero, S. J. regi Jacobo IIdo e sacris (1660-1685)’. The history is in eight books, with a table of contents. The present copy is apparently an autograph. Begins ‘Qui publicas res novare instituunt ad consilii exitum pervenire non possunt nisi ...’. There are a few notes in English, in another hand, on one of the inserted leaves. A copy of this manuscript is at MS Mm.01.46.

Dates: 1680s or 1690s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: 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).