Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.30 (Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De uirtute orandi; extracts from Jerome, Barnard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, etc; and other texts)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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. James于1930年对大学图书馆中世纪手稿工作的失败总结之后，对藏品进行更新描述的下一项集体尝试由图书馆手稿部的Harold Pink承担。Pink自1948年起致力于此项任务，直至1970年退休，在此期间，他多次修订了James二十年前所撰写的描述。他首先在Roger Mynors的指导下，着手整理附加分类序列中的手稿，Mynors本人亦贡献了若干描述。随后，Pink转向对双字母分类序列中的手稿进行描述。Pink和Mynors未发表的手稿描述已被归档至大学档案馆，编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。在某个阶段，他们手写描述的副本被制作出来，现已被扫描，并作为pdf文件提供下载。在大多数方面，Pink和Mynors对附加手稿的工作已被Jayne Ringrose的研究所取代。Ringrose所著的《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Brewer于2009年出版，现亦可在Apollo上查阅，其中包括基于已发布概要描述的更详细的手稿描述。欲了解更多信息，请参阅：James Freeman，《剑桥大学图书馆西部中世纪手稿未发表描述》，剑桥书目学会会刊（2020年）；James Freeman，《H.L. Pink的描述》，剑桥大学图书馆特别收藏主题指南（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。