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B - The seventeenth-century Library catalogues

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Memoriale

Benefactions and ‘register’ book, c. 1612–c. 1675 (TCL MS R.17.8). Memoriale Collegio Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi dicatum, 1614, pp. 85–133. Entries give authors or short titles; in order of benefactions. Most lists are in shelf order, but without locations. Written c.1612-c.1675 by John Scott and others. Incomplete (See fig. 10.)

1640

Alphabetical Finding list, c.1640 (TCL Add. MS a.103). Eleven broadside sheets, 36cm × 46cm, versos blank, which may have been posted in the Library but which are now bound in folio. Entries give authors or short titles; locations give case, side, and shelf, but not running numbers. Written, probably by William Clutterbooke, Librarian, c.1640; not significantly added to.

Volume totals: MS 353; printed 1,819; total 2,172. (See fig. 25.)

1645

Draft class catalogue, c.1645–8 (BL MS Sloane 78, ff. 139a–154a). Class catalogue drafted on sixteen folio leaves; lacks classes 22–26; law books not included. Entries give authors or short titles, with class, shelf, and running number. Written c. 1645–8, possibly by Thomas Pockley BA; not added to; probably never used.

Volume totals (incomplete): MS 198; printed 1,471; total 1,669. (See fig. 26.)

1667

Indexed class catalogue, 1667–c.1675 (TCL Add. MS a.101). Folio class catalogue, drafted by Thomas Griffith, Librarian, in Add. MSS a.101 A, 102; written out by him and dated 1667 in Add. MS a. 101; added to until c. 1675; with an index of printed books; bound pamphlets and law books not included. Entries give authors and short titles, and occasionally dates; with class, shelf, and running numbers.

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Trinity College Library. The First 150 Years
The Sandars Lectures 1978–9
, pp. 213 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1980

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