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Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 88

Date created

[ca. 1500-1599]

Language

Latin, English

Material

Vellum

Height (mm)

177

Width (mm)

133

Foliation

ff. i-iv + pp. 1a-22a + 1-81 + 82a-c + 83-100 + 100a-b + 101-146 + ff. v-vii

Provenance

Formerly catalogued as printed book SP. 13.

Binding

Rough sheep binding, eighteenth century, blind-tooled.

Summary

The main condition attached to Parker’s gift of books to Corpus Christi College was an annual inspection of the library by officials from Trinity Hall and Gonville and Caius College. To this end three copies were made of the Parker Register, listing Parker’s donations, one for each college, so that the contents of the library could be checked against this list. CCCC MS 575 is the copy belonging to Corpus Christi College, and contains annotations made by John Parker, Corpus fellow and son of Matthew, who checked the books not long after his father’s death. It is not clear how thoroughly these annual inspections were carried out - for one thing the three copies differ slightly - but nonetheless the system was successful in that remarkably little of Parker’s collection has been lost over the years. The 'audit' has been revived as an annual occurrence since 2004 after a long period when it did not regularly take place.

Contents

Indentures concerning Matthew Parker's bequest to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge -- List of printed books and manuscripts given by Matthew Parker to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

M.R. James Date

xvi

Augmented James Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sk572pk5955/575.pdf

Contains

• Indentures concerning Matthew Parker's bequest to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1a-22a
• List of printed books and manuscripts given by Matthew Parker to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1-vr

  Rubric

  (1) Inuentarium librorum in maiore bibliotheca<br />(41) Inuentarium librorum in minore bibliotheca

  Note

  See M. R. James, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I (1912), introduction, pp. xxxiii-xliii, describing the contents of this section of the Register taken from the Trinity Hall copy, S. Jayne, Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance (1956), pp. 117-19

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 575

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