Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.6.7 (Peter of Blois, Compendium in Iob, De conuersione S. Pauli, De transfiguratione Christi, and other texts)

Following the unsuccessful conclusion in 1930 of M.R. James’s work on the University Library’s medieval manuscripts, the next concerted attempt to produce updated descriptions of the collection was undertaken by Harold Pink, a member of staff in the Library’s Department of Manuscripts. Pink laboured on this task from 1948 until his retirement in 1970, in many instances revising those descriptions produced by James twenty years earlier. He began with those manuscripts in the Additionals classmark sequence, under the guidance of Roger Mynors, who himself contributed a number of descriptions, before later moving on to producing descriptions of manuscripts within the Two-Letter classmark sequence. Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75. At some stage, photocopies were made of the entire stock of their handwritten descriptions. These have now been scanned and are made available here for download as pdf files. In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose. Her Summary catalogue of the Additional medieval manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired before 1940 was published by Brewer in 2009, but is now also available on Apollo, together with more detailed descriptions of the manuscripts on which the published summary descriptions were based. For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman, 'H.L. Pink's descriptions', Cambridge University Library Special Collections Subject Guide (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl).

1930年，M.R.詹姆斯（M.R. James）对剑桥大学图书馆中世纪手稿的整理工作宣告失败，此后学界针对该馆藏开展的首次系统性修订描述工作，由图书馆手稿部职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）接手。平克自1948年起投入此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订二十年前詹姆斯所完成的手稿描述。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，首先从附加类索书号序列的手稿入手——迈纳斯本人也参与撰写了多篇手稿描述——后续又转向双字母类索书号序列的手稿编目描述。平克与迈纳斯的未刊手稿描述均已以档案号UA ULIB 7/3/75入藏剑桥大学档案馆。此前，他们手写的全部描述手稿均被制作了影印件，如今这些影印件已完成扫描，可在此处以PDF文件形式下载。在多数方面，平克与迈纳斯针对附加类中世纪手稿的研究成果，已被杰恩·林格罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关工作取代。她所撰《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏附加类中世纪手稿概要目录》于2009年由布鲁尔出版社（Brewer）出版，目前该目录与该出版概要所依托的更详细手稿描述内容一同上架于Apollo平台。如需进一步了解相关信息，可参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆未刊西方中世纪手稿描述》，载《剑桥书目学会会刊》（2020年）；詹姆斯·弗里曼《H.L.平克手稿描述》，剑桥大学图书馆特藏主题指南（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。