Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.4.4 (Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Histora regum Britanniae)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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).

继M.R.詹姆斯于1930年对大学图书馆中世纪手稿工作的不成功总结之后，下一项对藏品进行更新描述的有组织尝试由图书馆手稿部的员工哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）发起。平克自1948年起投入此项工作，直至1970年退休，在许多情况下，他修订了詹姆斯二十年前所创作的描述。他起初在罗杰·米诺尔斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，着手对附加分类序列中的手稿进行描述，米诺尔斯本人也贡献了若干描述，随后他继续对双字母分类序列中的手稿进行描述。平克和米诺尔斯的未发表描述已被收入大学档案馆，档案编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。在某个阶段，他们手写描述的全套副本被制作出来。这些副本现已扫描，并作为pdf文件在此提供下载。在大多数方面，平克和米诺尔斯对附加手稿的研究已被珍妮·林格罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的工作所取代。她的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年之前所获附加中世纪手稿概要目录》由布勒沃（Brewer）于2009年出版，但现在也可在Apollo上找到，包括基于已发表概要描述的手稿的更详细描述。欲了解更多信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman），《剑桥大学图书馆西部中世纪手稿未发表描述》，剑桥文献学会学报（2020年）；詹姆斯·弗里曼，《H.L.平克的描述》，剑桥大学图书馆特种收藏主题指南（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。