Description by J.S. Ringrose and J.A. Freeman of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 8584 (Ausonius, Epigrammata, Invitatio ad Paulum, Cupido cruciatus and other texts)

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年），以其对意大利、西班牙及葡萄牙后古腾堡时期（incunabula）研究的重要贡献而闻名于学术界。其私人藏品中，包含1501至1520年间欧洲印刷品的600余件珍品，目前已作为特定藏品存放在剑桥大学图书馆。然而，Norton所搜集的少量西方中世纪手稿，与其早期印刷品图书馆一同保存在大学图书馆，作为MSS Add. 8275及8581-8589编号收藏，却鲜为人知。这些手稿超出了近期出版的目录范围，且关于该收藏的信息至今公开甚少。2011年至2017年间，Jayne Ringrose对该批手稿进行了详尽的描述，并由James Freeman进行了修订与扩充。这些描述现作为近期关于Norton中世纪手稿搜集研究出版物的附件上传于此，旨在使这些藏品更加广为人知，并为研究者提供便捷。