Papers of Professor John Palmer. Arabic and English. Early 19^th century.

John Palmer (1769-1840) was a Fellow of St John’s College and the Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.

1 box containing loose manuscript papers relating to the Arabic language and its grammar originally in a single bundle.

Contents:

1. Small empty paper wrapper, addressed to the Rev’d J. Palmer, St John’s College, and marked ‘Catalogue of Dr Craven’s arabic books’.

Copy of the original charter of Sedbergh School . Latin. 1818.

The original attested copy of the charter is in the College Archives D59/19. The document was witnessed by Richard William and James Davis, both of Sedbergh on 27 January 1818. The date of the original charter is 14 May 1551. In a single neat early-nineteenth-century hand. The text occupies the rectos of the first 10 folios only.

Roll. Russian. 1687.

According to the abstract provided by Professor Lang in 1947 the roll is ‘A true copy of the Royal Rescript’ of the Lords Tsars and Grand Dukes Joann Alexeyevich, Peter Alexeyevich and the Princess and Tsarevna and Grand Duchess Sophia Alexeyevna, who ruled all Great, Little and White Russia, sent to their Lord Chamberlain and Governor Conrad Fomiev Narishtein.  The rescript deals with the engagement of pilots by foreign merchants at Archangel to guide ships along the River Dvina from the sea and from the town to the sea.

Plans of Second Court. English. 1599-1602, also ca.1700.

Plans and elevations of Second Court drawn by Ralph Symons and Gilbert Wigge, bearing the architects’ signatures, together with documents relating to the building and its contracts, plus further later plans of the College dating from around 1700.

Contents:

Roger North, The life of the Lord Keeper North. English. 17^th century.

Holograph manuscript in eight volumes of Roger North’s life of Francis North, Lord Guildford; together with two further volumes containing Francis North’s reports of cases in the courts of Common Pleas and King’s Bench, 1656-67, the first in the hand of Francis North, the other a transcript by Roger North from one of his notebooks. 

The Earl of Danby’s defence. English. 1678.

Entitled on the first page ‘The Lord Treasurer’s defence before the house of Lords to his impeachment upon six articles by Mr Montagu in the house of Commons. Anno domini 1678’. Seven pages of manuscript in a single neat hand in heavy black ink. Each of the 6 articles is numbered. The manuscript concludes with a Latin quotation from Juvenal’s Satires, and a pen flourish.

Typewritten extract made by T.A.C. Birrell from CUL MS Gg.4.3 relative to John Sergeant.  Latin. 1947.

Cambridge University Manuscript Gg.4.3 = Persecutionis Catholicaorum Anglicanae et Conjurationis Presbiterianae Hystoria. Autore P. Warnero, J. J. Regi Jacobo II^do e Sacris (1660-1685). John Sergeant (1622-1707) was admitted to St John’s College as a sizar in 1639 (BA 1642-3) and became a Roman Catholic priest serving at the English College in Lisbon.

Thomas Budd Shaw. Collection of writings in autograph manuscript (with a few printed items). English. Nineteenth century.

“Works in manuscript / by / Thomas Budd Shaw B.A. , M.A.  / of S. John’s College Cambridge / Born Oct 12 1813 / died in S. Petersburg Nov 26 1862 / Vol.1 / Collected and arranged by / his sister Julia Tufnell Hardwick / and her son Philip Charles Hardwick / April 1880.” -- from title page to volume 1.

Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dictata ad Aechinis Socratici Dialogus qui extant tres. Latin and Greek. 18th century.

In a single eighteenth-century hand. Text in Latin with quotations in Greek. Index in Greek. The author, Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), was a Dutch professor who revived the study of ancient Greek in the universities of the Netherlands. Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425-c. 350 B.C.E.) was a follower of Socrates, present at his trial and death.

T.S. Whalley letters. English. 1779-1786