Janus: Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.705-706	Whitley Stokes: additions to E. O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary
MS Add.707	John Barrett: Historical Collections relative to Trinity College, Dublin
MS Add.708	Transcript of MSS. 5100-4 in the Royal Library, Brussels
MS Add.709	Transcript of the Martyrologium Dungallense, MSS. 5095-6 in the Royal Library, Brussels
MS Add.711	Anthony Dopping: Notebook
MS Add.712	Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany
MS Add.7194.I	Correspondence concerning the deposit of the diary of John Bois [Boys] at Cambridge University Library
MS Add.7194.II	Lord Cardigan's sketch of the charge of the Light Brigade
MS Add.7194.III	Ode by Henry Francis Cary
MS Add.7194.IV	E[dward Ernest] Foxwell: list of books concerning Japan and the Far East
MS Add.7194.IX	Greek bifolium
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Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany

Title	Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.712
Covering Dates	1516–1746
Extent and Medium	1 bundle; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Includes 81 letters from the archives of the Baumgärtner family of Nuremburg, the majority to Hieronymus Baumgärtner the elder (d. 1564). With one exception the letters are from those with surnames beginning M to W. Also including 28 letters of a miscellaneous character, about half being addressed to secular rulers or authorities, including members of the Lichtenberg family, and members of the ruling house of Saxony.

Collection includes one printed item: Des XX Psalm Auslegung inn Reim ... durch D. J. Jonam, Wittenberg, 1546, unbound (with cancelled stamp of the Royal Library, Berlin).

Purchased of T. and W. Boone of London, booksellers, 5 May 1870.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Letters relating chiefly to the Reformation in Germany, MS Add.712

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Index Terms

Germany

Reformation

Saxony

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