Description by J.S. Ringrose and J.A. Freeman of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 8588 (Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguia of Francisco Gil)

F.J. Norton (1904-1986) is best known to scholarship as a consequence of his important contributions to the study of post-incunabula in Italy, Spain and Portugal. His substantial personal collection of over 600 examples of European printing from the period 1501-20 is now held at Cambridge University Library as a named collection. Less well-known, however, is the small collection of western medieval manuscripts that Norton assembled alongside his library of early print and which are now also held at the University Library as MSS Add. 8275, and 8581-8589. These fell beyond the scope of recent published catalogues and hitherto little information about the collection has been available publicly. Between 2011 and 2017, Jayne Ringrose prepared full descriptions of the manuscripts, which have now been revised and expanded by James Freeman. They are uploaded here as an accompaniment to a recent publication on Norton’s collecting of medieval manuscripts and in order to make these items more widely known and accessible to researchers.

For further information, see: James Freeman, ‘F.J. Norton’s manuscripts’, The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society (forthcoming).

F.J. Norton（1904-1986年）在学术界的知名度主要源于其对意大利、西班牙和葡萄牙地区后木版印刷研究的重大贡献。他拥有超过600件欧洲印刷品，时间跨度为1501年至1520年，这一丰富个人藏品现已成为剑桥大学图书馆的命名人藏。然而，鲜为人知的是，Norton在早期印刷品图书馆的辅助下，还汇编了一小批西方中世纪手稿，这些手稿现亦存放在大学图书馆，编号为MSS Add. 8275以及8581-8589。这些手稿超出了近期出版的目录范围，并且有关该收藏的公开信息甚少。在2011年至2017年间，Jayne Ringrose对这些手稿进行了详细的描述，随后James Freeman对其进行了修订和扩展。这些描述现已作为近期关于Norton收集中世纪手稿的出版物之附录上传于此，旨在使这些藏品更加广为人知，并便于研究人员查阅。

欲获取更多信息，请参阅：James Freeman，《F.J. Norton的手稿》，《图书馆：图书学会汇刊》（即将出版）。