Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.4.13 (Origen, Homilies (on Judges, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah), trans. by Rufinus)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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）中世纪手稿的研究以失败告终后，图书馆手稿部馆员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）发起了针对该馆藏更新描述的下一次系统性尝试。平克于1948年至1970年退休前一直致力于此项工作，多数情况下会修订二十年前詹姆斯完成的手稿描述。他最初在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，对附加类馆藏号序列（Additionals classmark sequence）下的手稿开展描述工作——迈纳斯本人也参与撰写了多篇手稿描述——随后转向双字母馆藏号序列（Two-Letter classmark sequence）下的手稿编目描述。平克与迈纳斯的未出版手稿描述均以编号UA ULIB 7/3/75入藏大学档案馆（University Archives）。后续工作人员对二人手写描述的全部存档制作了影印本，目前这些影印本已完成扫描，并以PDF文件形式在此提供下载。在多数方面，平克与迈纳斯针对附加类手稿的研究已被杰恩·林格罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的成果取代。她所著的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏附加中世纪手稿总目》由布鲁尔出版社（Brewer）于2009年出版，目前该总目及支撑其出版总述的手稿详细描述均可在阿波罗（Apollo）平台获取。如需进一步信息，请参阅：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》，《剑桥书目学会汇刊》（Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society）2020年刊；詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman），《H.L.平克手稿描述》，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）。