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Biometrika Trust
GB 0103 BIOMETRIKA TRUST · 1901-1916, 1935

Papers relating to the foundation and early days of the journal Biometrika, 1901-1916; papers relating to the Biometrika Trust, 1935.

Biometrika , journal Biometrika Trust
Calendar (German)
GB 0103 MS GERM 2 · 15th century [c1470]

Fifteenth-century manuscript volume containing a calendar for the year 1439, followed by tables, giving the golden number, etc, and also including signs of the zodiac and instructions for blood-letting. This translation of the calendar made by Hanns Gemund (or Johann Gmund, or Jean de Gamundia) in 1439 probably dates from c1470. The back of the binding bears the inscription: MS. Gamundia Kolender, Wien 1439. On folio 1*v is an extract from a catalogue describing the manuscript (in French).

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Calendar (Icelandic)
GB 0103 MS ICELANDIC 7 · 1794, 1804

Calendar of mixed authorship, dated 1794 and 1804. With notes by P G Foote.

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Calendar (Latin)
GB 0103 MS LAT 10 · Early 15th century

Fifteenth-century manuscript volume containing a calendar for the year 1424 (wanting January) and instructions for using the tables.

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GB 0103 MS GERM 1 · 13th century, 1471, 16th century

Manuscript volume, dated 1471: Sammelhandschrift, a collection of miscellaneous texts, comprising
(1) Calendar for the year 1471 (German), followed by instructions for use and chapters on the zodiac, the seven planets, the four 'complexions', blood-letting, etc, with plain and coloured ink illustrations (some incomplete) (ff 1v-92v);
(2) Aristotelis Brief Am Kunig Alexander (letter purported to have been written by Aristotle to King Alexander, offering advice on his health, in prose and in verse, in fact part of one of Aristotle's suppositious works, the Secreta Secretorum) (ff 93r-106v);
(3) Calendar for 1439, 1458, 1477 and 1496 (Latin), accompanied by astronomical chapters, with tables and instructions for use (ff 109v-130r);
(4) Elucidarus (a summary of Christian theology by Honorius Augustodunensis, in the form of a dialogue) (ff 131r-159r);
(5) Epistel Des Juden Samuel (epistle of the Jew Samuel) (ff 160r-186v).
The content of the two calendars, (1) and (3), is nearly identical.
Folios 107r-109r, 130v, 159v and 187r-187v are blank.
Signed by the scribe, Nicholas Pfaldorffer (f 106v).The guards in the centre of each quire consist of strips cut from a 13th-century manuscript. Folio 188r has a 16th-century house charm, consisting of words taken from the Antiphon of St Agatha.

Pfaldorffer , Nicholas , fl 1471 , of Ingoldstat, Bavaria , scribe
GB 0103 MS GERM 24 · Late 15th century (some dated 1491, 1493, 1496), 16th century

Manuscript volume, late 15th century: Sammelhandschrift, a collection of miscellaneous texts, some dated 1491, 1493, 1496, and including a Carthusian calendar, sermons, religious poems, prayers, and other texts. With some 16th-century text and annotations.

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GB 0103 MS LAT 4 · 14th century-15th century

Manuscript volume with contents dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, comprising a collection of 20 miscellaneous treatises, including 'Dyalethyca', with a commentary and exercise on the Summulae logicorum of Petrus Hispanus and other lectures and exercises in logic of Petrus Zech, alias De Pulka, of the University of Vienna, written by Johannes Sintram at Ulm and dated 1405; other treatises on liturgical and astrological subjects, including works by Johannes De Sacro Bosco; calendars; questions on canon law; verses. The pastedowns are from a 14th-century service book.

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Martyrology
GB 0103 MS LAT 5 · c1300

Manuscript volume, c1300: Martyrologium (martyrology), for Franciscan use, with calendar tables.

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Prayer Book (Dutch, c1521)
GB 0103 MS GERM 25 · c1521

Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), c1521, including prayers to the Virgin (one in verse) and to St Catherine. Preceded by a calendar, including tables for the Golden Number and a table of signs of the zodiac.

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Smith (Sidney) Papers
GB 0103 MS ADD 383 · 20th century

Papers of Professor Sidney Smith on Ancient Near Eastern Chronology for the Cambridge Ancient History (2nd edition), largely comprising typescript drafts with manuscript annotations, including the Middle Assyrian, Susan, Achaemenean, Iranian, Syrian, Hebrew and Babylonian Calendars; Egyptian, Syrian and Babylonian history; Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian and other King-lists; the Hittites; Assyrian sources and regnal years; intercalation; and bibliography.

Smith , Sidney , 1889-1979 , scholar of Ancient Near Eastern History
William Townsend Papers
GB 0103 TOWNSEND · 1919-1973

Townsend's journals. Also correspondence, personal files, postcards, art photographs, press cuttings, newspapers, typescripts of poems and articles, and general professional papers concerning colleges and exhibitions in Canada and the UK.

Townsend , William , 1909-1973 , Professor of Fine Art