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Additional Manuscripts b
Add. MS b · Fonds · 16th-20th c.

The additional manuscript series are artificial groups containing manuscripts from various sources. Most of the contents are single items or small groups, but they include some fairly large personal archives, either arranged in sequence or scattered in various places. See the overview of the collections (https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/overview).

Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Add. MS b/1/17-18 · Item · 23 May 1872
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Offering a photograph of a Greek manuscript of the Athanasian Creed in St Mark's Library, Venice to the College, with explanation of its source; copy of a letter by Rawdon Brown on 'the remaining seven photographs'.

Add. MS b/1/2-5 · Item · 12 Feb 1861-11 May 1861
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Two letters to the Master, both 12 Feb. 1861 in which he requests permission to consult the Capell collection of Shakespeariana at the library; envelope recording those who have seen the letters, with dates from 15-18 Feb.; two copies of a letter to the Master and Fellows dated 11 May 1861 asking them to reconsider their refusal of permission.

Add. MS b/1/23 · Item · 1830-1850
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

A document dated 28 Aug. 1849 and sent on to Trinity dated 10 June 1850 lists five items donated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College by Thomas Kidd, and encloses the original grant of the office of Master to Richard Bentley, with the letter from Thomas Thorpe to Kidd dated 8 Feb. 1830 by which he presented it to Thorpe. Some of the books donated carried annotations by Richard Porson.

Add. MS b/1/24 · Item · 1 Mar. 1849
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Down Farnborough, Kent. Discusses the difference between two genuses of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus and mentions specimens sent, and encloses a drawing of the two; has been going through Thompson's collection and finds it admirable. Comments on Thompson's book, does not like the separation of English and Latin text. Recommends a book by E. S. Dixon on poultry as it is very good and amusing. Is headed to Malvern to try a water cure.

Add. MS b/1/26 · Item · 29 Apr 1921
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Trinity College. Encloses his Latin inscriptions for Prior and Sedley Taylor, noting his use of the nominative case as Sedley Taylor is not declinable and the debate over the declinability of Prior would "excite acrimonious controversy."

Add. MS b/1/6 · Item · 8 June 1920
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum. Clarifies that the electrotype of which the library sent him a rubbing is not a coin of Offa, but a silver penny of Aethilheard, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Offa.

Add. MS b/102 · Item · [20th cent.]
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

The second notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued from Add.Ms.b.101, and Chapter XVIII is continued in Add.Ms.b.103. Includes two letters from G. N. Watson to B. M Wilson, 28 June 1929 and 1 October 1930 (between ff. 32 and 33).

Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920), mathematician
Add. MS b/104 · Item · [20th cent.]
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

The fourth notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter XXI is continued from Add.Ms.b.103. Contents: ff 1-5 Chapter XXI (cont'd); ff 6-12 Calculations 'Copied from the Loose Papers': miscellaneous (ff 6-12), proof for Bertrand's Postulate (ff 13-16), reciprocal functions (ff 16-25), approximate summations of series involving prime numbers (ff 25-44), 'Middle of a paper?' on moduli (ff 45-55), 'The Three Quarterly Reports f the late S. Ramanujan, to the Board of Studies in Mathematics, when he was a Research Scholarship-holder', 5 August and 7 November 1913 and 9 March 1914 (ff 64-118).

Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920), mathematician