E. S. Leedham-Green

A concise, illustrated history of the University of Cambridge from its origins up to the present day.

A Concise History of the University of Cambridge

Joseph Black

Robert J. Fehrenbach

Private Libraries in Renaissance England: PLRE 5-66

A Guide to the Archives of the Cambridge University Press

Book-lists from Vice-Chancellor's Court Probate Inventories in the Tudor and Stuart Periods

Books in Cambridge Inventories

These two volumes, published early in 1987 will now be made available for purchase, at a special price, as a Set. They list the contents of two hundred private libraries, as recorded in inventories presented for probate in the Vice-Chancellor's Court at the University of Cambridge between 1535 and 1760. Most of the books listed (as well as the maps and instruments, scientific and musical) reflect the flowering of the late English Renaissance as it affected all levels of the University community from academic potentates to the humblest student. The first volume presents the lists themselves, with brief biographical details of the books' owners, and appendices which include extracts from early wills; the second volume catalogues by author and title the books listed in Volume I, and is further supplied with an index, under broad subject-headings, of the authors represented. Dr. Leedham-Green has assembled one of the largest collections of private book-holdings ever published for this period in this country, comprising some 20,000 titles.

Book-Lists from Vice-Chancellor's Court Probate Inventories in the Tudor and Stuart Periods

Books in Cambridge Inventories: Volume 2, Catalogue

Joseph Laurence Black

A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-lists

Private Libraries in Renaissance England

E. S. Leedham-Green

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