Janus: Archives of Cambridge University Library

University/ULIB 7 contains:
1	Accessions and deaccessions records
2	Legal deposit records
3	Catalogues
4	Classification schemes
5	Cataloguing practice records
6	Inspection records
7	Shelving and relocation records
8	Binding and conservation records
9	Mutilation and theft records
10	Exhibition records
11	Statue and pictures records

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Archives of Cambridge University Library

Title	Catalogues
Reference	ULIB 7/3
Creator	Library staff
Covering Dates	1424–1995 (start date is modern photocopy of 1424 original)
Extent and Medium	18m

Content and context

Cover works in the General Catalogue, as well as incunables, the contents of special collections such as the Royal Library and the Acton Library, periodicals and fiction.

Further information

There are several catalogues in the 2 letter classes among the holdings of the Manuscripts Department.

University/ULIB 7/3 contains:

Photocopies of catalogues of the library, lists of muniments and vestments.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1424–1473

Author catalogue of books in the Old Library. These books, arranged in lettered classes or cases, became the star classes by mid 18th century, when an asterisk was added to their class marks, after the arrival of the Royal Library. Boards are annotated with explanatory notes on contents by J.C.T. Oates, 1968, 1983.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume, disbound, in modern box.

1690–1699

Class catalogue of the books in Old Library. These books, arranged in lettered classes or cases, became the star classes by mid 18th century, when an asterisk was added to their class marks, after the arrival of the Royal Library. Include explanatory notes by 'DH' [? Rev. D. Hall], late 19th century, and J.C.T. Oates, 1982, tipped in at front.
Creator: Knight, Samuel.
1 volume in modern binding.

1709

Class catalogue of works in the Little Library, classed in numbers V-XXII.
Creator: Knight, Samuel.
1 volume in modern binding.

1710

Assorted, unidentified catalogues.
Creator: Library staff.
1 box and 2 envelopes of booklets; in very poor condition; brittle pages.

1690–1720

List of folio, quarto and octavo sized books in number and letter classes.
Creator: Library staff.
1 item.

1700–1710

New books catalogue, for publications 1700-80, chiefly in number classes with a few letters. Includes, loose at back, a catalogue of books of Dr Newcome's last donation. Annotated 'duplicate R. Farmer' inside front cover.
Creator: Farmer, Richard and another unidentified individual.
1 volume; cover loose.

1780

Catalogue of books published mid - late 18th century, classed XX-XXIII. Rustat arms and 'Libri Rustattian' are tooled on cover. There is a note inside cover however by J.C.T. Oates that contents are not books purchased from the Rustat Fund. Annotated 'duplicate R. Farmer' inside cover.
Creator: Farmer, Richard.
1 volume; back cover loose.

1780

Class catalogues for general classes Ee-Oo.
Creator: Beverley, John.
19 booklets in envelopes.

1791

Author catalogue of printed books, A-Z.
Creator: Bowtell, John.
42 volumes.

1818–1826

Interleaved, annotated copy of the catalogue of T. Stevenson's circulating library, Cambridge. Certain entries annotated with class mark [? of the copy in Cambridge University Library], with additional notes on the interleaves.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume; front and back cover loose.

1820

Obsolete class catalogues.
Creator: Library staff.
141 volumes and envelopes of loose items.

1750–1980

Class catalogue of letters EB.
1 volume.

1790–1799

Class catalogue of patents.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1864–1889

A catalogue of adversaria and printed books containing ms notes, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, 1864). Annotated by Henry Bradshaw, circa 1867.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1864–1867

List of books in class Ref. Interleaved with manuscript annotations.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1937

Indices to books in class Ref.
Creator: Library staff.
2 volumes.

1960–1962

Subject guide to class Ref. The guide is interleaved and emended in manuscript.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1968

Slip catalogue of books relating to bibliography published late 18th century -1920s. Up to the 1920s a heading for 'Bibliography' was part of the Guard Book (or General) Catalogue.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1880–1920

Index of authors etc of printed books 1640-1661. Compiled as part of a project to catalogue Civil War Tracts in Cambridge University Library.
Creator: Brereton, Canon P.H.L.
1 booklet and loose notes.

1950

Memoranda, notes and accounts relating to Canon P.H.L. Brereton's catalogue of Civil War Tracts in Cambridge University Library.
Creator: Library staff.
1 folder.

1948–1951

Old blue slips - titles not transferred to new General Catalogue. Comprises manuscript catalogue entries for printed books, written on paper slips, arranged alphabetically by author, pasted onto linen-covered, paper guard sheets and stored inside hard covers.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1854–1861

Trade catalogue of novels, printed 1846, annotated with Library class marks and with additional pages of manuscript entries at back.
Creator: Dodson, D.
1 volume.

1846–1890

Interleaved catalogue of novels, annotated with Library class marks, incorporating later additions.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1850–1900

Catalogue of novels.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume; very poor condition: page edges torn, cover loose.

1850–1900

Catalogue of early 19th century fiction, listed class by class A-H at front and by author at back. Includes note at front 'All have been fresh catalogue[d] 1842'.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume; spine missing.

1842

Correspondence exchanged between the staff of the Rare Books Department and, chiefly, the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Relates to the compilation of revised entries for Pollard and Redgrave 'Short Title Catalogue of English Printed Books to 1640'.
Creator: Library staff.
1 box.

1961–1982

Catalogue of books in the select class AB. Covers incunables and other early printed books in the Royal Library, English and foreign, and several later 16th century items. Equivalent books in the star classes, that is the books in the Library's possession prior to the arrival of the Royal Library, are not included. Begun by WP, mid 1790s, with continuations and insertions by, successively, JM, JB and HB to 1880s.
Creator: Pugh, William; Marshall, John; Bowtell, John; Bradshaw, Henry.
1 volume.

1795–1880

Museum typographicum: books printed in the 15th century. List of incunables in select class AB and others gathered off open shelves, all brought together by HB into his first floor room, Room G, in the Scott Building; with loose, at back, plan of room 'G', the 'Museum Typographicum', showing the contents of cases, Oct. 1869, and class marks of further incunables for incorporation, 1883.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry.
1 volume.

1869–1883

Notes made in connection with incunable catalogue.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry.
19 sheets in envelope.

1870–1879

List of books printed in England in the 15th century held by Cambridge University Library. Gives author, title, date of publication, note on collation, AB or other classmark.
Creator: Duff, Gordon.
1 volume.

1891

List of incunable classmarks.
Creator: Murrell, E.S.
1 volume.

1905

XVI Belgium Antwerp. Records, for each work, author, title, place and date of printing, printer's name, size, classmark, binding and collation. Refers to other catalogues.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1900–1920

15th century English books. Records, for each work, title, printer, place of printing, size, classmark, collation and binding. Refers to other catalogues.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1930–1949

Catalogue of 15th century books.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1900

Catalogus Bibliothecae Mooreianae.
Creator: Pitcher, Robert; Moor, Edwin; Goodall, Thomas.
4 volumes.

1747

Author catalogues of the Royal Library.
Creator: Taylor, John and various unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
13 volumes in envelopes; Very acidic paper, in many cases between straw boards.

1738–1748

Further copies of parts of the author catalogue of the Royal Library.
Creator: Taylor, John and various unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
2 booklets; Lacking covers.

1738–1748

Class catalogues of the Royal Library, precursors to final schema catalogued as ULIB 7/3/42.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates, and local employees.
15 booklets in turkey paper wrappers.

1732–1748

Class catalogues of the Royal Library, precursors to the final schema, catalogued as ULIB 7/3/42.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates, and local employees.
9 booklets in straw board covers.

1732–1748

Further copies of parts of the early class catalogues of the Royal Library, precursors to the schema catalogued as ULIB 7/3/42. Cover classes IX, 9, 16 and 18. Further background information on dating and compiling of catalogues is in David McKitterick, Cambridge University Library: a history. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (CUP: Cambridge, 1986) pp.184-95.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
5 booklets in turkey paper.

1732–1748

Class catalogues of the Royal Library, in letters.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
13 booklets in envelopes.

1732–1748

Class catalogues of the Royal Library, in letters.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
12 booklets in envelopes.

1732–1748

Draft class catalogues of the Royal Library. Covers classes A, D, I and J. Further background information on dating and compiling of catalogues is in David McKitterick, Cambridge University Library: a history. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (CUP: Cambridge, 1986) pp.184-95.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified undergraduates, graduates and local employees.
5 items in envelope.

1732–1738

Subject catalogues of the Royal Library.
Creator: Taylor, John.
3 booklets in envelopes.

1732–1748

Catalogue of 'Libri antiquiores' in the Royal Library, arranged in number classes. Annotated throughout by J.C.T. Oates with Royal Library classmarks and incunable numbers.
Creator: Taylor, John.
1 booklet in envelope.

1730–1739

Catalogue of 'Libri imperfecti' in the Royal Library, arranged in number classes.
Creator: Taylor, John.
2 booklets in envelope.

1730–1739

Catalogue of 'Libri miscellanei' in the Royal Library, arranged in number classes.
Creator: Taylor, John.
1 booklet in envelope.

1730–1739

Assorted catalogues, chiefly of the books and manuscripts in the Royal Library, organised by size and subject. Also, manual of cataloguing practice and list of 90 books received in exchange for duplicates in the RL. Further information is in David McKitterick, Cambridge University Library: a history. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Cambridge: CUP, 1986) p.209.
Creator: Taylor, John and unidentified library staff.
18 items divided between 2 envelopes.

1730–1748

Catalogue of early printed books in the Royal Library. Annotated throughout by J.C.T. Oates with Royal Library classmarks and incunable numbers; illegible label refers to 'Mr Jeones'.
Creator: Taylor, John.
1 booklet in envelope.

1732–1740

Catalogue for works in Royal Library class Bb.
Creator: Library staff.
1 booklet in envelope.

1732–1748

Lists of duplicates in Royal Library classes AA-DD.
Creator: Library staff.
4 booklets in envelope.

1740–1748

List of books lost or misplaced in the Royal Library since the making of the classical catalogues.
Creator: Taylor, John.
1 booklet in envelope.

1 Oct. 1737

Catalogue of Hebrew books in the University Library, published in the 16th and 17th centuries. Further information is in David McKitterick, Cambridge University Library: a history. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Cambridge: CUP, 1986) p.323.
Creator: Lyon, Solomon.
1 volume.

1790–1795

Notes on the collections of Oriental, Thibetan and 'Additional' manuscripts.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry.
1 bundle in envelope.

1870–1880

Draft letter to the Vice-Chancellor. Concerns the catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts, of which volume I had been published in 1876 but the remainder was unfinished, and the report thereon to a special Library Subsyndicate.
Creator: Schiller-Szinessy, Solomon.
1 item in envelope.

21 May 1878

Alphabetical catalogue of the books of Professor Robert Lubbock Bensly.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1890

List of United States congressional documents, 1774-1847.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1880–1890

Catalogue of facsimiles of printed original documents. This volume is mostly blank.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

1915

Catalogue of the incunabula in the Acton Library.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume.

4 Oct. 1906

Catalogue of books and documents relating to the Papacy, presented by Rev. Robert James McGhee in May 1840.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry.
4 sheets in envelope.

1859

Lists of the publications of the Palaeontographical Society, with especial reference to those held by the University Library, and associated papers.
Creator: Bradshaw, Henry and unidentified library staff.
1 folder in envelope.

1869–1966

Catalogue of the periodical publications in the Library. Provides title and classmark for each work held. Annotated as obsolete, 1933.
Creator: Library staff.
1 volume; spine broken in two along its entire length.

1860–1933

Select lists of current English periodicals.
Creator: Library staff.
6 volumes.

1915–1950

Lists of current foreign periodicals.
Creator: Library staff.
14 booklets divided between 10 envelopes.

1870–1950

Current periodicals and supplements.
Creator: Library staff.
33 volumes and booklets, 3 folders of microfiche.

1955–1996

Classified lists of current periodicals, with occasional supplements.
Creator: Library staff.
8 volumes.

1967–1978

Select lists of non-current periodicals.
Creator: Library staff.
2 volumes.

1978–1980

Proposal to establish a library-based world wide web server in Cambridge University for the provision of online access to digital datasets and user guides.
Creator: Library staff.
1 item.

1995

Index to the contents of 'Chap Books' (classmark Res.b.598).
Creator: Library staff.
1 envelope of loose sheets.

1930–1939