Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- PART I
- PART II
- 4 The University and Colleges as Privileged Corporations
- 5 Records of University Administration
- 6 Records of Matriculation and Degrees
- 7 Financial Records of the University
- 8 Endowments of the University
- 9 University Officers and their Records
- 10 Records of the University Courts
- 11 Records of University Jurisdiction in the Town of Cambridge
- 12 The Relations between the Crown and the University
- 13 Other University Institutions and their Records
- APPENDICES
- Index
- Index to Muniments of Title in Appendix B
- Plate section
13 - Other University Institutions and their Records
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- PART I
- PART II
- 4 The University and Colleges as Privileged Corporations
- 5 Records of University Administration
- 6 Records of Matriculation and Degrees
- 7 Financial Records of the University
- 8 Endowments of the University
- 9 University Officers and their Records
- 10 Records of the University Courts
- 11 Records of University Jurisdiction in the Town of Cambridge
- 12 The Relations between the Crown and the University
- 13 Other University Institutions and their Records
- APPENDICES
- Index
- Index to Muniments of Title in Appendix B
- Plate section
Summary
The university has been the parent of several important institutions which, in course of time, have achieved a large measure of autonomy within the framework of university administration, and which now generally keep their own records. Their earlier records, however, cannot be properly differentiated from the main body of university archives, for they are to be found partly in the Grace Books, partly in the financial records of the university, and partly in the archives relating to the buildings which formerly housed them. The remainder, mainly in the form of loose papers, were bound up by registrary Luard in a series of guard-books. It should be noted that in some cases the first relevant documents in a guard-book are in fact earlier than the establishment of the institution concerned.
THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
In 1870 registrary Luard published A Chronological List of Graces, Documents and Other Papers in the University Registry, which concern the University Library. He drew on a variety of sources in the university archives, but principally upon the papers in the eight volumes of guard-books C.U.R. 31: 1–8 (Library). The contents of these volumes were, in February 1950, transferred to the university library, where they are being used by Mr J. C. T. Oates, an under-librarian, who is compiling a full-scale history of the university library.
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- Archives of the University of CambridgeAn Historical Introduction, pp. 68 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1963First published in: 1962