Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 490
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- MS 490
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- 1613
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- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 490: Register of Books and Plate belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Register of Books in the libraries of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Register of Plate belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 490 was started in 1613, and contains a list of donations to the library of Corpus Christi College, almost all printed books. In 1648 the volume was turned upside-down and restarted from the back with a list of college plate. This is prefaced by the text of a college resolution that such a list should be kept, perhaps prompted by the political troubles in England during the Civil War, which made heavy inroads into the plate of many Oxbridge colleges; indeed the first 145 cups listed were all sold in 1648 and 1649 according to notes signed by the Master and Bursar, and this record seems to have been a way of commemorating these donations despite the college having sold the gifts themselves. Meanwhile the book donations list was kept going until 1660. The list of plate is decorated with many coats of arms of donors, and contains occasional further records of sales. The list was kept up until circa 1743.
Contents :
1r-22r - Register of Books in the libraries of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
rubric: (1r) Registrum omnium librorum in utraque Bibliotheca Exteriore silicet et Interiore Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrigiensis anno dominicae incarnationis MDCXIII Kalend. April. atque inde porrò
Note: The Bibliotheca Exterior is first treated. The records of donations go down to 1660. The only manuscript mentioned is the Koran given by Mr Hitchcock (no. 249)
Note: After 14 blank leaves we have the Bibliotheca Interior
Note: A few manuscripts extra Catologum are mentioned: see further on the Libri ab aliis donati in the Introduction
Note: The entries cover about a page
36r-22v - Register of Plate belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Note: The volume has been turned upside-down and restarted from the back
Note: The Register of Plate begins with a resolution of the College (8 June 1648) that such a Register should be kept
Note: Then follow the arms of each donor very carefully drawn and a notice of his gift. These run from about 1590 to 1743
Note: The first 45 cups described were sold for £142. 10s. in 1648 and 1649, according to a statement on f. 4v signed by the Master and Bursar
Note: There are other records of sales in 1656 and 1693/4
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