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Record Id:

032-003442181

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003442181

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 5878

Title:

Mr. Cole's Collections for the ‘Athenæ Cantabrigiensis’

Scope & Content:

Letter P (17 of 23 Volumes in folio) containing Mr. Cole’s Collections for the ‘ATHENÆ CANTABRIGIENSES’, alphabetically arranged, with an index prefixed to each. (218 folios, exclusive of index, 14 pages).

Mr. Cole has also used it as a common place book for the insertion of miscellaneous articles.

The memoranda of a miscellaneous description in this volume are:

‘Peter House Benefactors’ (folio 98b)
‘St. Peter’s College’ (folio 99)
Anecdotes respecting alderman Purchase (folio 109b)
‘University of Paris’ (folio 110b)
‘Pythagoras his School at Cambridge’ (folio 112b)
Note of a manuscript belonging to Ralph de Marcatellis, Episcopus Rosensis (Risano in Dalmatia?) with his Arms, in trick (folio 120)
‘Puritanism’ and ‘Puritans’ (folios 129b,130)
‘Verses written by Gay in the first leaf of a copy of his Fables, presented to Miss Thomas’ (folio 133b)
Remarks of Dr. Pegge (folios 140b, 141)
‘Pembroke Hall’ (folio 147)
‘Phiswick’s Hostle’ (folio 149)
Thomas Pennant esquire (folio 153)
‘Presbyterians’ (folios 167b, 215)
‘Perukes or Wigs, introduction of’ (folio 170)
‘Antient Purse or Pouch’ (folio 200b)
‘Physicians’ (folio 201)
University Preachers, Presidents Press, New Printing House etc. (folio 202)
‘Plague at Cambridge’ (folio 202b)
‘Plays at Cambridge’ (folio 203)
‘Pictures and Paintings in Churches defended’ (folio 206b)
‘Collections of Pamphlets’ (folio 208b)
‘Collections of Prints’ (folio 210b)
‘Clerical Petitioners against the Articles and Liturgy; Presbyterians, Puritans, etc.’ (folios 212b-*213)
‘Gunpowder Treason’ (folio 214b)
‘Parks in England’ (folio 218b)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003442181

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003442181

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (232 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1775

End Date:

1785

Date Range:

c 1780

Era:

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User Conditions:

Custodial History:

This volume is part of the bequest of the Rev. William Cole, A.M. of King’s College, Cambridge, left by him in 1783.

Arrangement:

Alphabetically aranged, with an index prefixed

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.