Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 575: The Parker Register

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Summary
The main condition attached to Parker’s gift of books to Corpus Christi College was an annual inspection of the library by officials from Trinity Hall and Gonville and Caius College. To this end three copies were made of the Parker Register, listing Parker’s donations, one for each college, so that the contents of the library could be checked against this list. CCCC MS 575 is the copy belonging to Corpus Christi College, and contains annotations made by John Parker, Corpus fellow and son of Matthew, who checked the books not long after his father’s death. It is not clear how thoroughly these annual inspections were carried out - for one thing the three copies differ slightly - but nonetheless the system was successful in that remarkably little of Parker’s collection has been lost over the years. The 'audit' has been revived as an annual occurrence since 2004 after a long period when it did not regularly take place.
Contents
Indentures concerning Matthew Parker's bequest to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge -- List of printed books and manuscripts given by Matthew Parker to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Description

Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 88
Date created [ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language Latin; English
Material Vellum
Height (mm) 177
Width (mm) 133
Foliation ff. i-iv + pp. 1a-22a + 1-81 + 82a-c + 83-100 + 100a-b + 101-146 + ff. v-vii
Provenance Formerly catalogued as printed book SP. 13.
Binding Rough sheep binding, eighteenth century, blind-tooled.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xvi
Augmented James Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sk572pk5955/575.pdf
Contains
Title
Indentures concerning Matthew Parker's bequest to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1a-22a
Title
List of printed books and manuscripts given by Matthew Parker to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 1-vr
Rubric
(1) Inuentarium librorum in maiore bibliotheca
(41) Inuentarium librorum in minore bibliotheca
Note
See M. R. James, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I (1912), introduction, pp. xxxiii-xliii, describing the contents of this section of the Register taken from the Trinity Hall copy, S. Jayne, Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance (1956), pp. 117-19
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ww741yn5061
Location MS 575
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Collection

Parker Manuscripts

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