Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.2.6 (John Barbour, Scottish Legendary)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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的研究工作未果之后，对藏品进行更新描述的下一项集中努力由图书馆手稿部的员工Harold Pink发起。Pink自1948年起着手此任务，直至1970年退休，在许多情况下，他修订了James二十年前所编写的描述。他从Additional类目序列中的手稿开始，在Roger Mynors的指导下进行，Mynors本人也贡献了若干描述，随后转向对Two-Letter类目序列中手稿的描述。Pink和Mynors的未发表描述已被编入大学档案馆，编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。在某个阶段，他们的手写描述的整份副本被制作出来。这些副本现已扫描，并以pdf文件的形式在此提供下载。在大多数方面，Pink和Mynors对Additional手稿的研究已被Jayne Ringrose的工作所超越。她的《剑桥大学图书馆在1940年之前获得的Additional中世纪手稿概要目录》由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：James Freeman，《剑桥大学图书馆西方中世纪手稿未发表描述》，剑桥书目学会学报（2020年）；James Freeman，《H.L. Pink的描述》，剑桥大学图书馆特藏部主题指南（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。