On the spine is stamped ‘DECLAMATIONES | — | TRIN. COLL. CANTAB. | TOM. | I. | 1799–1809’, and inside the front cover is written, ‘Declamationes in Coll. S.S. Trinitatis Cantabrigiae | habitae | Tomus. I. | 1799–1809’. The dates in these titles do not match those of the contents. The manuscripts in the volume appear to be autograph.
Renouard, John Henry (1758–1830), college teacherDraft of a translation with revisions and with manuscript copies of newspaper reviews on its publication in 1780, including one signed 'Classicus' with a later hand at top identifying it as the handwriting of Mr Mills "& most probably written by himself".
Mills, William (fl 1772-1880)Translation of the pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
Homer (fl 750 BC-700 BC) poetContaining MS copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to his career in the Royal Navy.
On a page opposite the title: "From the Polyglot of Brian Walton. Prolegomena - page 45-48. Edition 1657. Londini of Thomas Rycroft. The edition which has the latter part of this dissertation after article 4 - pasted over - See Butlers Nova Biblica".
UnidentifiedPossibly a translation from Quintus Curtius Rufus, by an unidentified author. Note on the front free endpaper states that it contains a part of the 6th book, with the 7th through 10th books complete.
Bound volume with 22 works in different hands, with a contents page at front.
UnidentifiedTwo bound volumes of a MS fair copy[?] of Adriaan Reland's Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum, published in 1708.
Schultens, Albert (1686-1750) philologistBound MSS.
Graevius, Johann Georg (1632-1703) German classical scholar and criticBound MS.
Kemper, Johan Melchior (1776-1824) jurist and statesmanVolume with spine title "Kemperi Praelectiones in Grotium De jure belli ac pacis" though no attribution to Kemper appears on the MS title page.
Kemper, Johan Melchior (1776-1824) jurist and statesmanBound MS.
Swinton, John (1703-1777) clergyman and orientalistBound MS.
Arrowsmith, Louisa (1766-1840), née Lee, aunt of John LeeBound manuscript by an unidentified author. Full title: "Pensées diverses, dont plusieurs dénotent un Royaliste entête, qui s'obstine à croire qu'un Roi vaut mieux qu'un Consul, et qu'un Souverain légitime eclairé par le malheur doit être préfére à un Usurpateur aveuglé par la fortune. 1802"
MS blank verse translation accompanied by commentary, dedicated to his brother Lord Trevor.
Trevor, Robert Hampden- (1706-1783), 1st Viscount Hampden, diplomatist