Janus: The Macclesfield Collection

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.6575	Division List for the Mitchell Election
MS Add.6576	Cicero: Tusculan Disputations
MS Add.6577	Henry Elsynge: Judicature in Parliament
MS Add.6579	Cambridgeshire Heraldic Visitation
MS Add.6580-6585	Edward Atkinson: Papers
MS Add.6586-6587	Alexander Campbell Yorke: Fowlmere Papers
MS Add.6588	Ellis Hovell Minns: Influence of Materials upon Writing
MS Add.6589	Coats of Arms of Cambridgeshire Families
MS Add.6590	Seven Songs collected by C. E. Sayle, M.A.
MS Add.6591	Plautus: Pseudolus
MS Add.6592	Sandars Lecture on Ulrich Zell
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The Macclesfield Collection

Title	The Macclesfield Collection
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.9597
Creator	Parker, George (1697-1764), 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, astronomer
Covering Dates	1600–1800
Extent and Medium	c 40 boxes; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The Macclesfield Collection principally comprises the archives of John Collins (1625-1683) and William Jones (1675-1749). As well as being mathematicians in their own right, both men corresponded with leading scientific figures of their day and so the collection includes autograph material by Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, Henry Briggs, Roger Cotes, Henry Oldenburg and Robert Hooke.

William Jones was tutor to the Parker family, the Earls of Macclesfield, and both his own papers and those he had inherited from John Collins remained in library at Shirburn Castle until 1999 when they were bought through Sotheby's by Cambridge University Library.

Access and Use

Please enquire at the Manuscripts Reading Room desk if you would like to view items from the Macclesfield Collection.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, The Macclesfield Collection, MS Add.9597

Further information

Other Newton manuscripts are in the Portsmouth Collection (Add.3958-4007).

For queries about this collection, please contact the Curator of Scientific Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library on mss@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Index Terms

Jones, William (1675-1749) mathematician

Collins, John (1626-1683) mathematician and scientific administrator

Parker, Thomas (1666-1732) 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor

Parker, George (1697-1764) 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, astronomer

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597 contains:

Items pertaining to the collection itself.

1735–1950

Papers of Sir Isaac Newton.
paper.

1667–1724

Printed Matter.
paper.

c 1650-c 1750

Algebra.

c 1710-c 1749

Arithmetic.

c 1650-c 1750

Astronomy.

c 1650-cc 1800

Chronology.

c 1650-c 1750

Finance.

c 1650-c 1750

Fluxions.

c 1650-c 1750

Geography.

c 1650-c 1777

Geometry.

1635–1750

Humanities.

c 1600-c 1750

Letters.

1606–1747

Navigation.

c 1710-c 1750

Optics.

c 1610-c 1750

Physics.

c 1650-c 1750

Miscellaneous Mathematics.

c 1600-c 1800

Miscellaneous.

c 1650-c 1800