Unpublished description by R.A.B. Mynors of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6760 (Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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）针对剑桥大学图书馆（Cambridge University Library）中世纪手稿的研究工作无果而终，此后图书馆手稿部职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）牵头开展了针对该馆藏更新描述的下一次系统性尝试。平克于1948年起投身此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订了詹姆斯二十年前完成的手稿描述。他先在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，以Additionals分类号序列的手稿为起点开展工作，迈纳斯本人也贡献了多篇描述内容；之后他又转向Two-Letter分类号序列的手稿描述。平克与迈纳斯的未出版手稿描述均已作为UA ULIB 7/3/75归档至大学档案馆（University Archives）。当时曾将二人全部手写描述稿本制作影印件，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Additionals类手稿的研究成果已被杰恩·林格罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关工作取代。她所著的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏Additionals类中世纪手稿总目》于2009年由Brewer出版，目前该总目也可在Apollo平台上获取，同时还附带了支撑该出版总目描述的更为详尽的手稿细节。

如需进一步信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆藏西方中世纪手稿未刊描述》，《剑桥书目学会会刊》（2020年）；詹姆斯·弗里曼《H.L.平克的手稿描述》，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）。