Unpublished description by R.A.B. Mynors of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6981 (John of Capistrano, Tractatus de cupiditate; Henricus de Langenstein, Tractatus bipartitus de contractibus and Sermo magistri doctoris theologiae de concepcione beatae Mariae virginis; 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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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）针对剑桥大学图书馆（Cambridge University Library）所藏中世纪手稿的研究工作未能圆满完成，此后图书馆手稿部（Department of Manuscripts）职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）启动了对该馆藏进行更新式描述的下一次系统性尝试。平克自1948年起潜心开展此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订詹姆斯二十年前完成的手稿描述文稿。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，率先从附加类索书号序列（Additionals classmark sequence）下的手稿入手——迈纳斯本人也参与撰写了多篇手稿描述，之后转而处理双字母类索书号序列（Two-Letter classmark sequence）下的手稿描述工作。平克与迈纳斯的未刊手稿描述均以档号UA ULIB 7/3/75入藏大学档案馆（University Archives）。曾有阶段，二人全部手写描述文稿的影印件被制作完成，如今这些影印件已被扫描，并以PDF文件（pdf files）形式在此开放供下载。平克与迈纳斯针对附加类手稿的研究成果，在多数层面已被杰恩·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关工作所取代。她所著的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏附加中世纪手稿概要目录》由布鲁尔出版社（Brewer）于2009年出版，目前该目录也可在阿波罗（Apollo）平台获取，同时平台还附有基于该出版概要描述的更详细手稿说明。如需进一步信息，可参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆未出版西方中世纪手稿描述》，载《剑桥书目学会论文集》（Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society）2020年刊；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（Cambridge University Library Special Collections Subject Guide）（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。