Description by J.S. Ringrose and J.A. Freeman of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 8587 (Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Cordiale quattuor novissimorum, translated into French as Les quattres choses derrenieres by Jean Miélot)

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）以其对意大利、西班牙及葡萄牙后木刻期研究的重要贡献而闻名于学术界。他收藏的600余件欧洲印刷品，跨越1501至1520年这一时期，目前作为命名的藏品收藏于剑桥大学图书馆。然而，鲜为人知的是，Norton与其早期印刷品图书馆并存的少量西方中世纪手稿，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的目录范围，并且关于此收藏的公开信息寥寥无几。在2011年至2017年间，Jayne Ringrose对这批手稿进行了详尽的描述，并由James Freeman进行修订和扩展。这些描述作为近期关于Norton收集中世纪手稿的出版物之附件，上传于此，旨在让这些藏品更广泛地为研究者所知悉和获取。