GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001655
TitleMiscellaneous collection of letters and other items
ShelfmarkGB 12 MS Add.40
Creation Dateca. 1548 - 1714
RepositoryCambridge University Library
Contents NoteA collection of letters and tracts, including, inter alia, a letter from Roger Ascham to William Cecil (9 January 1548); letters from various people addressed to Bishop Simon Patrick; 'The Conquest of China by the Tartars' (c. 1690), etc. The full list of contents can be found on the Cambridge University Library online catalogue.
Material FeaturesThe items are not bound together, but held in a single folder.
Provenance
AcquisitionBelonged to Samuel Knight. After Knight's death in 1746, the manuscript descended to John Percy Baumgartner. The manuscript was presented by him to the Library in 1861.
Source of DataCambridge University online catalogue; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteMicrofilm available.
Sermons ContainedNoates of a Sermon preac[hed] at St Giles in Edinbrough -- 4 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated
Sermon Reports ContainedTranscript of a passage relating to ye Gunpowder Plott &c -- 1 leaf
GEMMS record createdJuly 04, 2022
GEMMS record last editedJuly 10, 2022