Full Description
Henry Bradshaw (1831-86) was a scholar and librarian renowned for numerous discoveries made whilst investigating the manuscripts and early printed books of the Cambridge University Library. Much of this material was uncatalogued at the time, nevertheless Bradshaw was able to bring to light, among other things, the earliest known Waldensian records. First published in 1889, this volume draws together a large number of his papers and divides them into two sections: the first contains written memoranda; the second contains transcribed speeches originally read out before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Additionally, there are thirteen illustrations from various books and manuscripts. This is a fascinating text that will be of value to anyone with an interest in early documents or medieval history.
Contents
1. On the recovery of the long lost Waldensian Manuscripts; 2. Two lists of books in the university library; 3. An early University statute concerning hostels; 4. On two hitherto unknown poems by John Barbour, author of the Brus; 5. A view of the state of the University in Queen Anne's reign (with 1 plate); 6. On the earliest English engravings of the indulgence known as the 'image of pity' (with 1 plate); 7. The skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 8. The printer of the historia S. Albani (with 1 plate); 9. An inventory of the stuff in the college chambers (King's College), 1598; 10. The University Library; 11. A classified index of the fifteenth century books in the De Meyer Collection sold at Ghent, November, 1869; 12. On the engraved device used by Nicolaus Gotz of Sletzstat, the Cologne printer, in 1474 (with 2 plates); 13. On two engravings of copper, by G. M., a wandering Flemish artist of the XV-XVIth century (with 2 plates); 14. List of the founts of type and woodcut devices used by printers in Holland in the fifteenth century (with 3 plates); 15. On the oldest written remains of the Welsh language; 16. On the collection of portraits belonging to the University before the Civil War; 17. Notes of the Episcopal visitation of the archdeaconry of Ely in 1685; 18. On the ABC as an authorized school-book in the sixteenth century; 19. Notice of a fragment of the fifteen Oes and other prayers printed at Westminster by W. Caxton about 1490-91, preserved in the library of the Baptist College, Bristol; 20. Note upon the various spellings of the name of St Erasmus in the churchwardens' accounts of Trinity Church, Cambridge, during the years 1504 to 1530; 21. Godfried van der Haghen (G. H.), the publisher of Tindale's own last edition of the New Testament in 1534-5; 22. The president's address at the opening of the fifth annual meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Cambridge, Sept. 5, 1882; 23. The early collection of canons commonly known as Hibernensis: a letter address to Dr F. W. H. Wasserschleben, Privy Councillor, Professor of Law in the University of Giessen; 24. A half-century of notes on the day-book of John Dorne, bookseller in Oxford, AD 1520, as edited by F. Madan for the Oxford Historical Society; Appendix.
