Unpublished description by H.L. Pink of Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.4.6 (Ambrose, Epistolae; Cassiodorus Senator, De anima; Augustine, De spiritu et anima; and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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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).

1930年，M.R. 詹姆斯（M.R. James）针对剑桥大学图书馆（University Library）中世纪手稿的研究工作未获预期成果后，该馆手稿部职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）随即启动了对该馆藏进行更新著录的首次系统性尝试。平克于1948年着手此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多次修订二十年前詹姆斯完成的手稿著录内容。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，首先处理附加类（Additionals）馆藏编号序列的手稿——迈纳斯本人亦参与撰写了若干条著录——随后又转向双字母馆藏编号序列（Two-Letter classmark sequence）手稿的著录工作。平克与迈纳斯的未刊手稿著录均以档案编号UA ULIB 7/3/75入藏剑桥大学档案馆。彼时，他们的全部手写著录均被制作了影印副本，如今这些副本已被扫描为PDF文件，可供在此处下载。在多数研究维度上，平克与迈纳斯针对附加类手稿的研究成果已被简·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的工作取代。她所撰《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏的附加类中世纪手稿概要目录》于2009年由Brewer出版，如今亦可在Apollo平台获取，同时附带了支撑该出版概要著录的更为详尽的手稿著录内容。如需进一步相关信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆未刊西方中世纪手稿著录》，载《剑桥书目学会会刊》（2020年）；詹姆斯·弗里曼《H.L.平克的手稿著录》，剑桥大学图书馆特藏主题指南（https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/manuscripts-university-archives/subject-guides/medieval-manuscripts-2/hl）。