A - Main Classes of Manuscript Sources in the Archives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
Summary
THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES AS PRIVILEGED CORPORATIONS (CH. IV)
(a) Charters of Privilege
From 50 Henry III.
(b) Statutes
1390 Earliest collection (copy probably replacing those destroyed in 13 81).
1570 Great Elizabethan Code of Statutes.
1882 New Statutes.
RECORDS OF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION (CH. V)
(a) Grace Books
A–Y 1454–1880 (Graces printed in University Reporter after 1870).
Volumes A, B, ∇, are published, and cover the period 1454–1589.
(b) Orders of Vice-Chancellor and Heads (Notebooks of) From 1750.
(c) Minutes of the Council of the Senate From 1856.
RECORDS OF MATRICULATION AND DEGREES (CH. VI)
(a) Matriculations
1544 (gap 1590-1601) to present day.
(b) Ordo Senioritatis 1498/9 to 1746/7 and Triposes from 1747/8 to present day.
Published in The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, and Supplements.
(c) The Supplicats
Certificates signed by college praelectors testifying to qualifications, residence, etc., of candidates for degrees, 1568–1870.
(d) Subscription Books
Candidates for degrees were required to sign their acceptance of the royal supremacy and of the formularies of the Anglican Church.
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- Archives of the University of CambridgeAn Historical Introduction, pp. 72 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1963First published in: 1962