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

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MS Add.3301	John Fortescue of 'Spirelston' [Spiddlestone], Devon: exemplification of arms, and pedigree, extracted from the visitation of Devon, May 1638.
MS Add.3304	A Kallender of the Pelles of Recept and Exitus and Bundells of Privie Seales uppon the same from the firste yeare of Edward the firste untill this present
MS Add.3306	Latin translation of Demosthenes: Contra Leptinem by John Christopherson
MS Add.3307	Jonathan Cotton: Principia Cartesiana Tyronum Captui Accommodata
MS Add.3308	Zachary Grey: Abstracts and transcripts on religious and Cambridge University affairs
MS Add.3309	Transcipt of The Image of Ypocrycye attributed to John Skelton
MS Add.3310	Collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions from Suffolk churches
MS Add.3313-3318	William Herbert: Typographical Antiquities
MS Add.3320	University of Cambridge: Questionae Theologicae
MS Add.3325	Bedford Level: Warrant book of the conservators of the Great Level of the Fens
MS Add.3331	John Bowtell: History of the University of Cambridge
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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