Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 3022 (register of writs, statutes and tracts)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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中世纪手稿（medieval manuscripts）的研究工作无果而终后，该馆手稿部（Department of Manuscripts）职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）随即启动了针对馆藏手稿的系统性更新编目工作。平克自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编目描述。在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，平克首先从追加本分类号序列（Additionals classmark sequence）的手稿入手开展编目工作，迈纳斯本人亦参与撰写了多篇编目描述；后续他又转向双字母分类号序列（Two-Letter classmark sequence）的手稿编目。平克与迈纳斯的未出版编目资料均以UA ULIB 7/3/75的编号入藏剑桥大学档案馆（University Archives）。其后，二人全部手写编目资料被制作了完整影印本。目前，这些影印本已完成扫描，可在此以PDF文件形式下载。平克与迈纳斯针对追加本手稿（Additional manuscripts）的编目工作，在绝大多数方面已被杰恩·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的研究成果所取代。杰恩·林罗斯所著的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏的中世纪追加本手稿总目》于2009年由布鲁尔出版社（Brewer）出版，目前亦可在Apollo平台获取，同时附带了支撑该出版总目详细描述的手稿相关资料。如需进一步了解相关信息，可参阅以下文献：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编目资料》，载《剑桥书目学会会刊》（Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society，2020年）；以及詹姆斯·弗里曼《H.L.平克编目资料》，载剑桥大学图书馆特藏主题指南（Special Collections Subject Guide，https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。