Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-s9k8s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-10-04T06:37:03.211Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Preface and Acknowledgements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2023

Rodney M. Thomson
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
Get access

Summary

After the launch of my catalogue of Peterhouse MSS in 2016, Emeritus Fellow and College Archivist Roger Lovatt asked me ‘What next?’ On my answering that I wasn't sure, he suggested ‘What about Pembroke? You already know some of their manuscripts. If you’re interested, I’ll write for you.’ And I was, he did, and the reaction was quick, enthusiastic and affirmative.

For the initial invitation to undertake this work, and for their interest and good fellowship since, I thank the Master of Pembroke College, Lord Christopher Smith, its Library Committee, and its Fellows, the College Librarian Pat Aske and Honorary Archivist Jayne Ringrose, both until the course of 2018, then Librarian Genny Grim and Archivist Lizzy Ennion-Smith, for innumerable tasks and support. Much of my time was spent in the Manuscript Reading Room of Cambridge University Library, where most of the manuscripts are kept. All their staff was helpful, but in particular I wish to thank James Freeman and Frank Bowles for much labour above and beyond the call of normal duty. I owe much to Michael Reeve, Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke, for discussion and information en passant but above all for reading a draft of the whole and checking it against the manuscripts; information on particular manuscripts, or groups of them, was cheerfully supplied by Sir John Baker, Margaret Bent, Gabriele Bonomelli, Martin Brett, Charles Burnett, Paul Cavill, Sean Curran, Christopher de Hamel, Ralph Hanna, Sylvia Huot, David Juste, Roger Lovatt, Constant Mews, Linne Mooney, Nigel Morgan, Anne Nichols, Samu Niskanen, Stephen Oakley, Kari Anne Rand, Michael Robson, David Rundle, Ian Short, Siegfried Wenzel and Nigel Wilson. For remaining errors and shortcomings, I alone am responsible.

In 2020, the third year of this project, the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world. At the time, I had seen all of the MSS at least twice, except for 235–309 and the fragments, some of which I had not seen at all. I was unable to leave my country in 2020 and 2021, but work on the MSS continued, thanks to the willing and expert help provided in particular by Genny Grim, Michael Reeve and James Freeman. Some of this, and not the least helpful, was in the form of photographs. I am aware of the perils of describing books that one has only seen once, and acknowledge that there will be errors and omissions that would have been remedied by further examination.

Type
Chapter

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Rodney M. Thomson, University of Tasmania
  • Book: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800107830.002
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Rodney M. Thomson, University of Tasmania
  • Book: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800107830.002
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Rodney M. Thomson, University of Tasmania
  • Book: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Online publication: 14 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800107830.002
Available formats
×