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Alternative title

Register

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 37

Date created

[ca. 1613]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Height (mm)

300

Width (mm)

210

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-9 + 9a + 10 + 10a + 11-36 + iii-iv

Summary

CCCC MS 490 was started in 1613, and contains a list of donations to the library of Corpus Christi College, almost all printed books. In 1648 the volume was turned upside-down and restarted from the back with a list of college plate. This is prefaced by the text of a college resolution that such a list should be kept, perhaps prompted by the political troubles in England during the Civil War, which made heavy inroads into the plate of many Oxbridge colleges; indeed the first 145 cups listed were all sold in 1648 and 1649 according to notes signed by the Master and Bursar, and this record seems to have been a way of commemorating these donations despite the college having sold the gifts themselves. Meanwhile the book donations list was kept going until 1660. The list of plate is decorated with many coats of arms of donors, and contains occasional further records of sales. The list was kept up until circa 1743.

Contents

Register of Books in the libraries of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge -- Register of Plate belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

M.R. James Date

1613

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fk321kj6198/MS_490.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yc707xc8337/490.pdf

Contains

• Register of Books in the libraries of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1r-22r

  Rubric

  (1r) Registrum omnium librorum in utraque Bibliotheca Exteriore silicet et Interiore Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiensis anno dominicae incarnationis MDCXIII Kalend. April. atque inde porrò

  Note

  The Bibliotheca Exterior is first treated. The records of donations go down to 1660. The only manuscript mentioned is the Koran given by Mr Hitchcock (no. 249)
  After 14 blank leaves we have the Bibliotheca Interior
  A few manuscripts extra Catologum are mentioned: see further on the Libri ab aliis donati in the Introduction
  The entries cover about a page

• Register of Plate belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 36r-22v

  Note

  The volume has been turned upside-down and restarted from the back
  The Register of Plate begins with a resolution of the College (8 June 1648) that such a Register should be kept
  Then follow the arms of each donor very carefully drawn and a notice of his gift. These run from about 1590 to 1743
  The first 45 cups described were sold for £142. 10s. in 1648 and 1649, according to a statement on f. 4v signed by the Master and Bursar
  There are other records of sales in 1656 and 1693/4

TJames

none

Stanley

none

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 490

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