Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 4126 (Book of Hours, Use of Rome)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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所藏中世纪手稿的研究工作未能取得预期成果。此后，图书馆手稿部馆员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）启动了针对该馆藏手稿描述的系统性修订工作。平克自1948年起潜心从事这项任务，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订了二十年前詹姆斯所完成的手稿描述。他最初在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，对附加类馆藏编号序列（Additionals classmark sequence）中的手稿开展编目工作，迈纳斯本人也贡献了若干篇手稿描述；之后他又转向双字母类馆藏编号序列（Two-Letter classmark sequence）中的手稿描述。平克与迈纳斯的未刊手稿描述均已入藏剑桥大学档案馆，存档编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。此后，相关人员为他们全部的手写手稿描述制作了影印本，现已完成扫描，并以PDF文件的形式在此提供下载。

在多数研究领域中，平克与迈纳斯针对附加类手稿的研究成果已被简·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年前入藏附加类中世纪手稿概要目录》于2009年由布鲁尔（Brewer）出版社出版，如今该目录也可在Apollo平台上获取，同时附带了构成该出版概要描述基础的更为详尽的手稿说明。

如需进一步了解相关信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆西方中世纪手稿未刊描述》，载《剑桥书目学会会刊》（2020年）；以及詹姆斯·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）。