Unpublished description by R.A.B. Mynors of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1877 (Bible)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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研究工作的不成功结项之后，对藏品进行更新描述的下一项集中尝试由图书馆手稿部的Harold Pink负责实施。Pink自1948年起投入此任务，直至1970年退休，在许多情况下，他对James二十年前所撰写的描述进行了修订。他起初在Roger Mynors的指导下，着手整理附加类目序列中的手稿，Mynors本人亦贡献了若干描述，随后又转向对双字母类目序列中的手稿进行描述。Pink和Mynors的未出版描述已被收入大学档案馆，编号为UA ULIB 7/3/75。在某个阶段，对他们的手写描述进行了影印。这些影印件现已扫描并在此作为PDF文件提供下载。在大多数方面，Pink和Mynors对附加手稿的研究已被Jayne Ringrose的工作所超越。她的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前所获附加中世纪手稿概览目录》由Brewer于2009年出版，但现亦可在Apollo上找到，包括基于已出版概览描述的更详细的手稿描述。欲了解更多信息，请参阅：James Freeman，《剑桥大学图书馆西方中世纪手稿未发表描述》，剑桥文献学协会交易（2020年）；James Freeman，《H.L. Pink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）。