Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 4077 (pseudo-Jerome, Breuiarium super Psalmos)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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（University Library）中世纪手稿的研究工作以失败告终。此后，该馆手稿部馆员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）发起了下一次对该馆藏进行系统性更新描述的尝试。平克自1948年起潜心开展此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订二十年前詹姆斯所撰写的手稿描述条目。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，首先从附加类（Additionals）索书号序列下的手稿入手开展工作——迈纳斯本人亦撰写了若干条手稿描述——随后又转向双字母类（Two-Letter）索书号序列下的手稿描述工作。平克与迈纳斯的未刊手稿描述均以编号UA ULIB 7/3/75被编入剑桥大学档案馆（University Archives）馆藏。此前曾有阶段，二人手写的全部描述稿均被制作了影印副本，目前这些影印件已完成扫描，并以PDF文件形式在此提供下载。
在绝大多数方面，平克与迈纳斯针对附加类手稿的研究已被杰恩·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关成果所取代。其《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏附加类中世纪手稿总目》于2009年由布鲁尔（Brewer）出版社出版，目前亦可在阿波罗（Apollo）平台获取，同时附带该出版总目所依据的手稿详细描述内容。
如需进一步了解相关信息，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出版描述》，载《剑桥文献学会会刊》（Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society，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）