Unpublished description by R.A.B. Mynors of Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 6578 (Nicholas Love, The Mirrour of the blessed Lyf of Jhesu Christ; treatise on the sacrament)

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 Both Pink’s and Mynors’ unpublished descriptions have been accessioned into the University Archives as UA ULIB 7/3/75.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 In most respects, Pink’s and Mynors’ work on the Additional manuscripts has been superseded by that of Jayne Ringrose.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 For further information, see: James Freeman, 'Unpublished descriptions of western medieval manuscripts at Cambridge University Library', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (2020); James Freeman,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中世纪手稿的整理工作宣告失败。此后，剑桥大学图书馆手稿部职员哈罗德·平克（Harold Pink）牵头开展了针对该馆藏进行更新描述的系统性尝试。平克自1948年起潜心推进此项工作，直至1970年退休，期间多数情况下会修订二十年前詹姆斯完成的手稿描述文稿。他在罗杰·迈纳斯（Roger Mynors）的指导下，首先处理追加类馆藏编号序列下的手稿——迈纳斯本人也参与撰写了若干份手稿描述文稿，之后他又转向双字母类馆藏编号序列下的手稿描述工作。平克与迈纳斯的未出版描述文稿均已以归档编号UA ULIB 7/3/75入藏剑桥大学档案馆。此后某一阶段，二人手写的全部描述文稿均被制作了影印副本。如今这些影印副本已完成扫描，并以PDF文件的形式在此提供下载。在多数研究维度上，平克与迈纳斯针对追加类手稿的研究成果已被杰恩·林罗斯（Jayne Ringrose）的相关工作取代。她所编撰的《剑桥大学图书馆1940年前入藏的中世纪追加手稿总目》于2009年由布鲁尔出版社（Brewer）出版，如今该出版物与支撑其出版总目描述的更详细手稿研究资料一同，也可在阿波罗平台（Apollo）上获取。如需进一步了解相关信息，请参阅：詹姆斯·弗里曼（James Freeman）《剑桥大学图书馆未出版西方中世纪手稿描述文稿》，载《剑桥书目学会会刊》（2020年）；詹姆斯·弗里曼《H.L.平克的手稿描述工作》，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）。