Janus: Lists of books, manuscripts and incunabula belonging to Samuel Sandars

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.4161	W.A. Kinnebrook: Description of Armour
MS Add.4162	William Woolley, 'History of County of Derby', in the hand of Stephen Glover
MS Add.4163	Transcript of Robert Copland's poem 'The Complaynte of them that ben to late maryd', made from the printed edition by Wynkyn de Worde
MS Add.4164	Cambridge facetiae, jokes and humour
MS Add.4169	Collectanea.
MS Add.4170-4172	Lists of books, manuscripts and incunabula belonging to Samuel Sandars
MS Add.4174	Spanish transcripts
MS Add.4175	Extracts dealing with the parish of Oakington, Cambridgeshire
MS Add.4176	Notes and extracts on the history of Queens' College, Cambridge
MS Add.4177	Vies des Pères (fragments)
MS Add.4178	Akolouthia tou Hagiou Nikolaou
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Lists of books, manuscripts and incunabula belonging to Samuel Sandars

Title	Lists of books, manuscripts and incunabula belonging to Samuel Sandars
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4170-4172
Creator	Sandars, Samuel (1837-1894)
Covering Dates	1869–1915
Extent and Medium	3 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Samuel Sandars (1837-1894) was born on 25 April 1837 at Chelmsford, Essex. He attended Harrow, before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1856 (B.A., 1860; M.A., 1863). He was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1859, and called to the bar in 1863. Sandars was J.P. for Buckinghamshire, and High Sheriff, 1894. He died on 15 June 1894, leaving £2,000 for the endowment of a Readership in Bibliography and Palaeography at Cambridge University, which was to bear his name. He also bequeathed a collection of books and manuscripts to the University Library.

Bequeathed by Samuel Sandars, 1894.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Lists of books, manuscripts and incunabula belonging to Samuel Sandars, MS Add.4170-4172

Manuscripts/MS Add.4170-4172 contains:

MS Add.4170

List of books belonging to Samuel Sandars. Includes: (Fo. 1) List of manuscripts belonging to Sandars; (fo. 5) list of collectors and binders in Sandars' library; (fo. 7) list of plays, romances, facetiae and fables, presumably in Sandars' library; (fo. 11) list of liturgical books presented by Henry Bradshaw to Cambridge University Library; (fo. 13) list of books printed at Cambridge in S. Sandars' library.
Creator: Sandars, Samuel (1837-1894).
1 volume; paper.

1889–1893

MS Add.4171

Cambridge incunabula. 'Some of the Books printed in the fifteenth century in the Cambridge University Library compiled from various sources and notes made on the spot'. The books are arranged in chronological order of printing, with undated items at the end.
1 volume; paper.

1869

MS Add.4172

Lists of books and manuscripts belong to Samuel Sandars. Volume 1, in the hand of Samuel Sandars, 1893, 283 folios: (p. i) list of manuscripts belonging to Sandars, in chronological order, 1893; (p. 1) list of books printed before 1801 belonging to Sandars, in alphabetical order; (p. 288) index to owners and binders. Inside the front cover is Sandars' bookplate. Volume 2, in the hands of Francis Jenkinson and Alfred Rogers, 1894: (fo. 1) list of books belonging to Sandars at 7 De Vere Gardens, Kensington; (fo. 42) list of books belonging to Sandars at Chalfont Grove, Bucks. On fo. 18 is a note of two books found on 10 July 1915, and given to F. Jenkinson.
Creator: Sandars, Samuel; Jenkinson, Francis; Rogers, Alfred.
1 volume; paper.

1893–1915