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Add MS 5960
- Record Id:
- 032-003442250
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442250
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x0002fd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5960
- Title:
- Several tracts, mostly relating to the University of Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
-
A thin quarto volume (87 folios), in which are bound together several separate Tracts, viz.
1. Biographical lists of the Provosts of King’s College Cambridge, from 1443 to 1689, (folios 1-4)
2. ‘Episcopi ex Academia Cantabrigiensi qui ab AD 1500 usque ad ann. 1572. Ecclesiæ inservierunt per Matthæum Parker, Archiess. Cant. collecti quibus fere singulis non solum proprium Collegium affigitur , sed et eorundum Catalogus ab AD 1572 ad ann. 1622 continuatur per Johannem Scott’. (folios 5-8)
3. A Catalogue of all the Fellows of King’s College Cambridge who have been Bishops, to the year 1675. (folios 9-10)
4. Account of the Foundation of the University of Cambridge and of the several Colleges, the Public Library, Schools of Philosophy and Divinity. (folios 11-26)
5. List of Officers employed by the University. (folio 27)
6. Extracts from Mr. Chambers will, concerning scholars to be chosen from Eton to Merton College, Oxon. (folio 28)
7. Notes from Matthew Stokes’s buckled book, and Hare’s Manuscript collections in the custody of the Registrar of the University of Cambridge. (folios 28b-29b)
8. Extracts from the Household Book of Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland. (Published by Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, in 1768), with references to MS Harl. 433, concerning the Keeper of the King’s Bears and Apes, and to MS. Coll. Pembroke Cant. for a Household book of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. All in Dr. Percy’s(?) handwriting. (folios 30-43)
9. Travestie in verse of Mr. Button, the Mayor of Chester’s speech to King James I. (folios 44-47)
10. A sermon preached by Mr. Simson of Trinity College afore his Majesty at Roiston in October 1617. (folios 48-54b) (Written in a neat contemporary hand)
11. Extracts from the Fathers, touching the opinions in the above sermon. (folio 54b-56) (Written in a neat contemporary hand)
12. Judgement of Dr. Richardson, Vice Chancellor and the Heads of Colleges, concerning certain propositions delivered in a sermon by Mr. Simson. (folio 56b) (Written in a neat contemporary hand)
13. The larger censure of the aforenamed sermon. (folios 57-61b) (Written in a neat contemporary hand)
14. ‘Mahometanism [Islam] and Popery compared in several articles of importance by the late Mr. Henry Care, author of the weekly paquet of advice from Rome, to which is prefixed a short account of Mahomet’s [Mohammed’s] life’. By Dr. Zachary Grey. (folio 62-87b)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442250
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442250
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (87 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1750
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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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.
- 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.