Janus: Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions.

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.5375-5380	Thomas Perry: Letter books
MS Add.54	Collection of miscellaneous Elizabethan orders for musters and other military papers
MS Add.55	Glossary to King's College Cambridge MS 13
MS Add.56	Statutes of Peterhouse, Cambridge
MS Add.565	Catalogues of Italian Libraries
MS Add.57	Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions.
MS Add.5711	John Daniel Cotton: Poems
MS Add.5712	Edward Gordon Duff: 'Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535'
MS Add.5713	George Robert Crotch: Letters to Emily Coulden
MS Add.5714	Thomas Binns: Lists of Newspapers and Serials
MS Add.5715	E. Du Faur: Translations of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac
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Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions.

Title	Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions.
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.57
Covering Dates	1600–1750 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 parcel; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

English and foreign, including some from the ancient world. In various 17th-cent. hands, completed in the hand of Samuel Knight.

Incorporating printed copy of William Bercher, 'Epitaphia et Inscriptiones lugubres', London, 1566.

From Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts (d. 1746), the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions., MS Add.57

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Epitaphs

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