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Post-16^th Century Manuscripts’ Catalogue

The Old Library’s manuscripts dating from 1600 onwards are listed here. These later manuscripts have been catalogued for Trinity Hall by Dr Elizabeth New. A few post-medieval manuscripts were catalogued by M R James in his A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Hall (Cambridge University Press, 1907) and his descriptions are also listed here.

Classmark	Manuscript	Date of Manuscript
MS.14	Institutiones juris Anglicani / John Cowell	17th century
MS.23	Statuta Academae Cantabrigiensis	18th century
MS.27	Commentarius in titulum De regulis juris / Thomas Eden	17th century
MS.30	Lives of Bateman and Chappell	18th century
MS.31	Tracts on marriage and divorce / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.32	Sea terms and, Geographical tracts	17th century
MS.34	Five hundred points of husbandry, with housewifery / Thomas Tusser	19th century
MS.35.1-2	Life of Henry Fawcett (1833-1884) / Leslie Stephen	19th century
MS.37	Castellinaria and other Sicillian adventures / Henry Festing Jones	20th century
MS.38	Treatise upon the civil law	18th century
MS.39	Poems (1) / Thomas Ansell	18th century
MS.40	Poems (2) / Thomas Ansell	18th century
MS.41	Law lectures: Object of Law, lectures 10-13 / Thomas Bever	18th century
MS.42.1	Legal practice and precedents / John Lane	17th century
MS.42.2	Legal precedents / John Lane	17th century
MS.43.1	Miscellany on Admiralty and maritime law (1)	17th/18th century
MS.43.2	Miscellany on Admiralty and maritime law (2)	17th/18th century
MS.44.1	On marriage and divorce (1) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.44.2	On marriage and divorce (2) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.44.3	On marriage and divorce (3) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.44.4	On marriage and divorce (4) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.45.1	Of guardianship (1) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.45.2	Of guardianship (2) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.45.3	Of guardianship and curatorship (3) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.46.1	Of dominion, or property (1) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.46.2	Of dominion, or property (2) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.46.3	Of dominion, or property (3) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.46.4	Of dominion, or property (4) / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.47	Of last wills and testaments / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.48	Miscellaneous notes on natural law / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.49	Of succession to an intestate estate / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.50	On substitutions / Francis Dickens	18th century
MS.51	Cases and opinions on ecclesiastical law	18th century
MS.52	A history of England / Peter Calvert	18th century
MS.53	Inscriptio Sigea; with Chishull’s Commentary	18th century
MS.54	The steps of a cause	18th century
MS.56	Notes on government and law / Henry Sumner Maine	19th century
MS.70.1	Abstracts of Spanish dispatches concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 1529-1533	20th century
MS.70.2	Abstracts of Spanish dispatches concerning the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, 1534-1535	20th century
MS.72	Life of Sir Thomas Moore	20th century
MS.74	Heraldic visitations etc.	20th century
MS.75	Dictionary of notable Anglo-Saxon and Norman persons	19th/20th century
MS.76	Heraldry on church plate in Essex	20th century
MS.77	Orders for the government of the bedchamber and privy lodgings	17th century
MS.79.1	Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (1)	20th century
MS.79.2	Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (2)	20th century
MS.79.3	Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (3)	20th century
MS.79.4	Genealogical notes of families in Cumbria and Westmorland (4)	20th century
MS.80	English heraldry	20th century
MS.81	Account of the trial, execution and burial of Mary, Queen of Scots	18th/19th century
MS.82	Extracts from The York Courant and The Yorkshire Chronicle	18th century
MS.83	Miscellaneous extracts from State Papers, The Gentleman’s Magazine etc.	20th century
MS.84	Extracts from The Gentleman’s Magazine related to criminal cases	20th century
MS.85	Cutting from the Book of St Albans	20th century
MS.86-86A	The Gray Psalter ; Fragment of The Gray Psalter	20th century
MS.87	A memo of Our Holy Lords the Popes, from Innocent III – Innocent XIII	20th century
THPP/DIC	Letter of Charles Dickens	15 October 1868

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