Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 4482 (Book of Hours, Use of Lyons)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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的研究工作无果而终后，哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）——图书馆手稿部的一名职员——开启了对该馆藏进行更新著录的下一次有组织的系统性尝试。平克于1948年潜心投入此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订二十年前詹姆斯完成的手稿著录。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，率先从追加类（Additionals）分类号序列下的手稿展开工作，迈纳斯本人也参与撰写了多篇著录，之后他又转向双字母类（Two-Letter）分类号序列下的手稿著录工作。平克与迈纳斯的未出版手稿著录均已被编入剑桥大学档案馆（University Archives），档案编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。后续，他们手写的全部手稿著录均被制作了影印本。如今这些影印本已完成扫描，并在此以PDF文件的形式提供下载。在多数相关领域，平克与迈纳斯针对追加类手稿的研究已被简·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关成果所取代。她所著的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏中世纪追加手稿总目》（Summary catalogue of the Additional medieval manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired before 1940）于2009年由布鲁尔（Brewer）出版社出版，如今该出版物也可在阿波罗（Apollo）平台获取，同时还附有支撑该出版总目的更为详尽的手稿著录内容。如需进一步了解相关信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）的《剑桥大学图书馆未出版西方中世纪手稿著录》，刊载于《剑桥书目学会会刊》（Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society）(2020)；以及詹姆斯·弗里曼的《H.L.平克的手稿著录》，载于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）。