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Post-16th Century Manuscripts’ Catalogue

The Old Library’s manuscripts dating from 1600 onwards are listed here. These later manuscripts have been catalogued for Trinity Hall by Dr Elizabeth New. A few post-medieval manuscripts were catalogued by M R James in his A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Hall (Cambridge University Press, 1907) and his descriptions are also listed here.

 

ClassmarkManuscriptDate of Manuscript
MS.14Institutiones juris Anglicani / John Cowell17th Century
MS.23Statuta Academae Cantabrigiensis18th Century
MS.27Commentarius in titulum De regulis juris / Thomas Eden18th Century
MS.30Lives of Bateman and Chappell18th Century
MS.31Sea terms and, Geographical tracts18th Century
MS.32Five hundred points of husbandry, with housewifery / Thomas Tusser19th Century
MS.34Life of Henry Fawcett (1833-1884) / Leslie Stephen19th Century
MS.35.1-2Life of Henry Fawcett (1833-1884) / Leslie Stephen19th Century
MS.37Castellinaria and other Sicillian adventures / Henry Festing Jones20th Century
MS.38Treatise upon the civil law18th Century
MS.39Poems (1) / Thomas Ansell18th Century
MS.40Poems (2) / Thomas Ansell18th Century
MS.41Law lectures: Object of Law, lectures 10-13 / Thomas Bever18th Century
MS.42.1Legal practice and precedents / John Lane17th Century
MS.42.2Legal precedents / John Lane17th Century
MS.43.1Miscellany on Admiralty and maritime law (1)17th/18th Century
MS.43.2Miscellany on Admiralty and maritime law (2)17th/18th Century
MS.44.1On marriage and divorce (1) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.44.2On marriage and divorce (2) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.44.3On marriage and divorce (3) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.44.4On marriage and divorce (4) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.45.1Of guardianship (1) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.45.2Of guardianship (2) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.45.3Of guardianship and curatorship (3) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.46.1Of dominion, or property (1) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.46.2Of dominion, or property (2) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.46.3Of dominion, or property (3) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.46.4Of dominion, or property (4) / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.47Of last wills and testaments / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.48Miscellaneous notes on natural law / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.49Of succession to an intestate estate / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.50 On substitutions / Francis Dickens18th Century
MS.51Cases and opinions on ecclesiastical law18th Century
MS.52A history of England / Peter Calvert18th Century
MS.53Inscriptio Sigea; with Chishull's Commentary18th Century
MS.54The steps of a cause18th Century
MS.56Notes on government and law / Henry Sumner Maine19th Century
MS.70.1Abstracts of Spanish dispatches concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 1529-153320th Century
MS.70.2Abstracts of Spanish dispatches concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 1534-153520th Century
MS.72Life of Sir Thomas Moore20th Century
MS.74Heraldic visitations etc.20th Century
MS.75Dictionary of notable Anglo-Saxon and Norman persons19th/20th Century
MS.76Heraldry on church plate in Essex20th Century
MS.77Orders for the government of the bedchamber and privy lodgings17th Century
MS.79.1Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (1)20th Century
MS.79.2Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (2)20th Century
MS.79.3Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (3)20th Century
MS.79.4Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (4)20th Century
MS.80English heraldry20th Century
MS.81Account of the trial, execution and burial of Mary, Queen of Scots18th/19th Century
MS.82Extracts from The York Courant and The Yorkshire Chronicle18th Century
MS.83Miscellaneous extracts from State Papers, The Gentleman's Magazine etc.20th Century
MS.84Extracts from The Gentleman's Magazine related to criminal cases20th Century
MS.85Cutting from the Book of St Albans20th Century
MS.86-86AThe Gray Psalter ; Fragment of The Gray Psalter20th Century
MS.87A memo of Our Holy Lords the Popes, from Innocent III - Innocent XIII20th Century
THPP/DIC Letter of Charles Dickens15 October 1868