Description by J.S. Ringrose and J.A. Freeman of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 8581 (Apocalypse)

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）因其在意大利、西班牙和葡萄牙后木刻研究方面的重大贡献而闻名于学术界。他拥有超过600件欧洲印刷品，时间跨度为1501年至1520年，这一丰富的个人藏品现收藏于剑桥大学图书馆，并作为一个命名的藏品而存在。然而，他收集的西方中世纪手稿集合，与他的早期印刷品图书馆并存，却鲜为人知，这些手稿现亦藏于大学图书馆，编号为MSS Add. 8275以及8581-8589。这些手稿超出了近期出版目录的范畴，且至今关于该收藏的信息公开甚少。在2011年至2017年期间，Jayne Ringrose 编制了这些手稿的详细描述，这些描述后来由James Freeman 进行了修订和扩展。它们作为近期关于Norton 收集中世纪手稿的出版物的补充材料被上传于此，旨在使这些藏品更广泛地为研究者所知并便于获取。有关更多信息，请参阅：James Freeman，《F.J. Norton的手稿》，《图书馆：文献学会汇刊》（即将出版）。