C - Select Bibliography, 1785–1961

Summary

I. PUBLICATIONS OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE COMPILED FROM THE CENTRAL RECORDS, TRANSCRIPTS OR PRINTED SOURCES (1785–1912)

[The following are the sources most frequently used:

(1) MSS. Hare, in the university archives. These transcripts, presented to the university in 1587 by Robert Hare, were compiled from both the central records and the university charters.

(2) MSS. Baker vols. 1–23 in the British Museum, and vols. 24–42 and A–D in the university library.

(3) The Parker Collection in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

(4) The printed Statuta of 1785 (see below).

(5) Acts of Parliament.]

George Dyer, History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge… (2 vols., London 1814). Based on transcripts by F. S. Parris and others.

George Dyer, The Privileges of the University of Cambridge; together with Additional Observations on its History, Antiquities, Literature, and Biography (2 vols., London, 1824). Transcripts from MSS. Hare, Statuta, etc. O.E.T.

John Lamb (ed.), A Collection of Letters, Statutes, and other Documents from the Manuscript Library of Corpus Christi College, illustrative of the History of the University of Cambridge. from A.D. MD, to A.D. MDLXXII (London, 1838). From transcripts of the Parker Collection. O.E.

James Heywood (ed.), Collection of Statutes for the University and the Colleges of Cambridge. (London, 1840). T.

George Peacock, Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge (London and Cambridge, 1841). From the Statuta, MSS. Hare, and MSS. Cole. O.E.

Charles Henry Cooper, Annals of Cambridge (5 vols., Cambridge, 1842–1908). From the Statuta, MSS. Hare and other transcripts. E.T.