Pierre Cuppé, 'Le Ciel Ouvert'. French, early eighteenth century

Pierre Cuppé (1664?-1748?): 'Le Ciel ouvert a tous les hommes ou traité theologique dans le quel sans rien deranger des pratiques de la Religion on prouve solidement par l'Ecriture Sainte et la raison que tous les hommes seront sauvez / Composé par Pierre Cuppé prestre Bachelier au Theologie Chanoine regulier de St Augustin et Prieur Curé de la paroisse de Bois dans le Diocese de Xaintes' (fo. 11r-11v). The text ends with two lines erased at fo. 268v. This unorthodox work was written before 1716.

Guillaume Postel, 'Le Prime Nove del altro Mondo'.

Filippo Musotti, Letter-book re the Council of Trent. Italian, 1561

Victor Hugo, Notebooks. French, 1856-60

Henry Newcome, Diary of contemporary events. English, 1666-1673.

Henry Newcome (bap. 1627, d. 1695), alumnus of St John's College Cambridge, clergyman and ejected minister (see ODNB). During the period covered by this diary, Newcome appears to have resided at Ellenbrook, six miles outside Manchester, at the house of Thomas Topping.

Letters, speeches and essays of Richard Beadon, and other items. Latin, 17th century - 1781.

Transcripts of letters from Thomas Baker to Joseph Ames etc. English and Latin, 1786.

Contents

Minutes of the Non-Subscribing Ministers' Association. English, 1850-4.

Gloucester cathedral library catalogue. English and Latin, 1833.

'Catalogue of the Cathedral Library Gloucester. C. Hough 1833.' A list of printed books dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries arranged in alphabetical order by author/title. The entry for each book gives its author and/or title, format, imprint, and pressmark. A summary list of the 'Contents of the presses' appears on p. 112.

John Hulse, Prayers. English, 1786.

John Hulse (1708-90) studied at St John's College, graduating BA in 1728. He subsequently entered the church but from 1753 lived in seclusion at Elworth Hall, Sandbach, Cheshire, on account of ill health. Hulse bequeathed estates in Cheshire to the University of Cambridge to found inter alia the post of Hulsean lecturer. See ODNB.