Religion
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
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John Patrick: Explicatio locorum scripturae; Samuel Knight, Draft of the Life of Dean Colet
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.46
Dates:
Late seventeenth century - early eighteenth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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
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Journals of John Lightfoot, Mid seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.21-MS Dd.14.23
Scope and Contents
Three books written by John Lightfoot. The title of the first is ‘A journal of the proceedings of the assembly of divines convened for the worke of reformation in the Church, by the authority of both houses of parliament, anno 1643. Upon the discipline and liturgy’. The title of the third book is ‘A further journall of passages in the assembly from Easter, 1644’; the last entry in this journal is ‘Tuesday Decemb. ult. The first weeke kept me at Munden. This day our worke was about Church...
Dates:
Mid seventeenth century
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Lancelot Andrewes on the ten commandments, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Gg.02.01
Scope and Contents
Begins ‘Clemens Alexandrinus writing his παιδαγωγος in three bookes ...’; incomplete. According to the notice prefixed to the edition of the ‘Pattern of catechistical doctrine’ published in the Anglo-Catholick Library, Oxford, 1846, the work consists of notes taken at Andrewes’s lectures.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Law commonplace book, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hh.03.08
Scope and Contents
Upon leaves left unoccupied by the legal subjects, a later possessor of the book has written: 'Jewel's repli unto M. Harding's answeare', being extracts from Whitaker's Latin translation; short passages on religious and moral subjects, from St Augustine and others; and a table of contents of a system of divinity, extending over 11 leaves. In another handwriting in the middle of the book is 'The true opinion of divines concerning man's beginninge', 'The faulse opinion of the heathens...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
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Lectures of John Whitgift on the apocalypse, c. 1565
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.36
Scope and Contents
The lectures were delivered while Whitgift was Lady Margaret professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge. Incomplete: the beginning is damaged by damp and some leaves have been lost; the text begins 'et post tres dies et dimidium ...'. This manuscript, like MS Ff.01.09, is in Whitgift's own handwriting.
Dates:
c. 1565
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Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans, Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.40
Scope and Contents
'Mosis Amyraldi prælectiones in capp. III. IV. Ep. ad Romanos', beginning 'In eo hæc sunt: 1o. Enunciatio …'. Parts of ff. 14 and 15 are blank, a portion of the commentary on Rom. iii. 22 being wanting. These discourses are a continuation of those in MS Dd.03.88, nos 1-5, and are in the same handwriting.
Dates:
Sixteenth or seventeenth century
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Legal reports and religious notes, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.23
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘The passages in parliament against Francis Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor of England’; the account agrees almost verbatim with that given in Bacon’s Works (1730), volume II, pp. 548-558; (2) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, Feb. 15, 1633. Prinne and Sparkes’; this report differs from that given in 3 St. Tr. 561-585; (3) ‘In camerâ stellatâ, sexto die mensis Februarii, anno octavo Caroli regis termino Sancti Hillarii, anno domini, 1632. The King’s attorney / Henry Sherfield, Esqre and other...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Life of Henry Nicholas, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.54
Scope and Contents
'Mirabilia opera Dei. Certaine wonderful works of God which happened to H. N. even from his youth: and how the God of Heaven hath united himselfe with him, and raised up his gracious word in him, and how he hath chosen and sent him to be a minister of his gracious word: published by Tobias a fellow-elder with H. N. in the household of love: translated out of Base Almain, Ps. xlvi. 66. Acts xiii. 6.' Begins (after the Preface) 'In the eighth year of the age of H. N. ...'
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Lists of benefices belonging to the church of Exeter, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.10.48
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Nomina ecclesiarum parochialium et capellarum infra diœcesim Exon. et etiam patronorum earundem, nec non earum uniuscujusque valor’; (2) ‘Dignitates et beneficia ad collationem domini episcopi Exon. spectantia’; (3) ‘Beneficia ad presentationem domini decani ecclesiæ cathedralis Exon. spectantia’; (4) ‘Beneficia ad presentationem decani et capituli ecclesiæ cathedralis Exon. (infra diœcesim Exon.) spectantia’; (5) ‘Beneficium ad presentacionem vicariorum choralium ecclesiæ cathedralis...
Dates:
Undated
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Lists of the benefices and incumbents of the diocese and archdeaconry of York, 1530s?
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.08.20
Scope and Contents
(1) Liber Eboracensis: after the heading ‘Archiepatus Eboracen’ follows a list of the different benefices with the tenths due from each; the amount for each page has been written at the bottom by another sixteenth-century hand; (2) ‘Nomina dignitatum prebendarum rectoriarum vicariarum cantariarum et capellanorum infra eccles. metropoliticam civitatem et archidiaconatum Eboracen.’; the names are in four columns, of the incumbents, the benefices, the ‘clarus valor’, and the ‘decima pars’; the...
Dates:
1530s?
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Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ …, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.04.57
Scope and Contents
'Liturgiæ S. Basilii magni, S. Gregorii theologi, S. Cyrilli Alexandrini, ex Arabico conversæ, a Victorio Scialach, Accurensi Maronita e Monte Libano. Augustæ Vindelicorum. 1604.’ Manuscript copy of a printed work bearing the same title (which is in the University Library in a volume of tracts, Dd*.3.9(E)); it affords a few various readings, written over the words intended to be changed; even the corrigenda are copied. f. 31 contains a note of the transcriber not in the printed copy, with an...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Mandell Creighton: Correspondence with Lord Acton and Academic Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6871-6872
Dates:
1860-1937 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Manual for the use of priests and confessors, Sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.07
Scope and Contents
Following tables of contents and a prologue beginning 'Ut simplicium sacerdotum et confessorum penurie vel in modico consulatur …' follow parts headed 'De confessionibus, excommunicacionibus et absolutionibus', 'De x. preceptis', 'De vii preccatis mortalibus', 'De peccatis mortalibus in speciali et de eorum filiabus', 'De interrogacionibus faciendis in confessione spiritualium', 'De spiritalibus' and 'De morte et morituris', with an index to the preceding treatises and 'Rubrice juris civilis...
Dates:
Sixteenth century
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Meditations and a letter, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.76
Scope and Contents
Contains: a dedication to Sir Francis Drake, signed 'Olyver Pigge'; 'Meditations concerning prayers to almighti God for the safetie of England when the Spanierds were come into the Narrow Seas. August, 1588'; 'Meditations concerning thanckes to almighti God for delivering England from the crueltie of the Spanierds and for their marveilose confusione and overthrowe. 1588'; 'Part of a letter sent to a Christian knighte employed in the service of her Majestie, in the Lowe Countries, 1585,...
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
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Michael Servetus and Theodor Ludwig Lau: theological works
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6903
Scope and Contents
M. Servetus, 'Libri Duo Dialogorum de septem Erroribus in Trinitate', printed at Hagenau, 1532. fo. 35: blank. fo. 39: Lau, 'Meditiationes de Deo, Mundo et Homine', printed at Frankfurt, 1717. fo. 66: blank. fo. 69: Lau, 'Meditationes seu Theses dubiae philosophico-theologicae eruditorum Disquisitioni Religionis cuiusvis et Nationis', printed at Freystad, 1719. fo. 84: blank. Servetus' work is presumably copied either from the original printing, or from the Regensburg, ?1721 reprint,...
Dates:
1730 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Miscellany, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.14.12
Scope and Contents
Sermons, Latin poems, notes from various authors, etc., written from both ends of the volume.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Nineteen Lectures upon some of the articles of the Church of England, by Robert Lambert, D.D., Master of St John's College, Cambridge, Early eighteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Nn.02.46
Scope and Contents
There are dates in the margin extending from 1707 to 1719, not in chronological order, which probably indicate the periods when each Lecture was given in the College. The whole is fairly written as if for the press. On the fly-leaf at the end is Lambert's name, and a note that 3 MS. books are for his nephew, Leonard Chappelow. Lambert became Master of the College in 1727. A copy of his will, which was proved 21 Feb., 1734-5, is in Baker's MSS. XXXVI. 263. He bequeathed all his MSS. and...
Dates:
Early eighteenth century
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Notebook of a law student, Undated
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.02.44
Scope and Contents
(1) A summary of civil law, arranged tabularly, occupying 56 leaves; (2) Miscellaneous notes from the Christian fathers and upon matters religious and ecclesiastical, occupying 11 leaves, with a treatise 'De diversis regulis juris antiqui' (unfinished) and notes on various theological and ecclesiastical matters; (3) 'Miscellanea': theological notes, irregularly written from both ends.
Dates:
Undated
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Notebook of Alexander Ros, 1613
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.38
Scope and Contents
Contains notes under the headings 'Loci communes theologici' and 'Dubia quedam de Porphyrii Isagoge', followed by miscellaneous theological notes, medical recipes, etc.
Dates:
1613
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Notes and 'An evangelye...', Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.90
Scope and Contents
(1) A collection of notes on various doctrinal subjects, interleaved, and having, at intervals, many blank pages; (2) 'An evangelye; or joyfull-message; of the kyngdome of God and Christ. Translated out of the base-almayne, into Englyshe …'; begins 'H. N. out of grace; according to the providence of God ...', the initials being those of Henry Nicholas.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Notes of sermons, c. 1700
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.24
Scope and Contents
Notes of sermons, and comments over various passages of scripture, by the writer and others. Written in shorthand.
Dates:
c. 1700
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Notes of sermons, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.30
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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Notes of sermons, 1635
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.47
Scope and Contents
Notes on sermons, almost illegible. See also MS Dd.06.70.
Dates:
1635
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Notes of sermons, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.88
Scope and Contents
The sermons are by Mr Spurstow, Mr Marshall and others; the notes are written irregularly from both ends of the volume.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
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