Janus: Henry Bradshaw: Indexes and Notes to Book Collections

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.4307	Robert Willis: General catalogue of writers on music and sound
MS Add.4308-4316	Thomas Pierce Williams: Notes on astronomy, physics and mathematics
MS Add.4317	Minutes of meetings of the Council of the Senate of Cambridge University
MS Add.4318	Council of Trent: Decisions and Declarations
MS Add.4319	F.J. Philipart: Dialectica
MS Add.4321-4323	Henry Bradshaw: Indexes and Notes to Book Collections
MS Add.4324	J.H. Hessels: Incunabula of Thomas Grenville
MS Add.4326-4338	Basil Montagu: Papers concerning Francis Bacon.
MS Add.4339	Sir Thomas Phillipps: Catalogue of his Manuscripts
MS Add.4340	Royal Hospital, Dublin: Charter
MS Add.4341	History of Ireland and Related Papers
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Henry Bradshaw: Indexes and Notes to Book Collections

Title	Henry Bradshaw: Indexes and Notes to Book Collections
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4321-4323
Creator	Bradshaw, Henry (1831-1886)
Covering Dates	1870–1886
Extent and Medium	3 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886) was born in London on 2 February 1831. He attended Eton, before entering King's College, Cambridge, in 1850 (B.A, 1854; M.A., 1857), where he was Fellow, 1853-1856, and Dean, 1857-1858 and 1863-1865. In 1856 he became Assistant Master at St Columba's College, near Dublin. Thereafter, he joined Cambridge University Library, where he was Assistant, 1856-1858, and Superintendent of Manuscripts, 1859-1867. He carried out the reform of the Department of Manuscripts, and served as University Librarian, 1867-1886. Bradshaw died on 11 February 1886.

Notes on the Culemann, Vergauwen and Wodhull book collections

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Henry Bradshaw: Indexes and Notes to Book Collections, MS Add.4321-4323

Further information

Cambridge University Library holds other Bradshaw papers, MSS.Add.4209, 4227, 4228, 4545, 4603, 5120, 5344, 5990, 6419-6437, 6439-6440 and 6617.

Index Terms

Bradshaw, Henry (1831-1886) scholar, antiquary and librarian

Manuscripts/MS Add.4321-4323 contains:

MS Add.4321

Culemann collection. A classified index of the fifteenth-century books in the Culemann collection sold by Sotheby's in February 1870, compiled by Henry Bradshaw, and arranged chronologically under countries, towns and printers. There are additions and many pencil notes on the versos.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886.
1 volume; paper.

1870

MS Add.4322

Vergauwen collection. An analysis of the Vergauwen collection of incunabula made by Henry Bradshaw: (fo. 4) title-page; (fo. 5) text; (fo. 40) pencil note. There are many pencil notes on the versos.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886.
1 volume; paper.

1884

MS Add.4323

Wodhull incunabala. A classified index of the fifteenth-century books in the library of Michael Wodhull, sold by Sotheby's in January 1886, compiled by Henry Bradshaw. The versos are mostly blank.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry, 1831-1886.
1 volume; paper.

1886