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The monumental Athenae Cantabrigienses is a collection of biographies of distinguished historical figures with connections to Cambridge University. It was compiled by a noted local historian, and financed by private subscriptions. Volume 2, originally published in 1861, covers the period 1586-1609.

A transcript and translation of the royal charters issued to the borough of Cambridge between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Maitland lays stress on the considerable independence exercised by the medieval borough. The introduction explains the conventions of such charters, and explains how to interpret the information contained in them.

John Willis Clark, academic and antiquarian, collected Cambridge literature of all periods and upon every subject. This catalogue, published in 1912, documents over ten thousand of Clark's books, pamphlets and pieces of print relating, directly or indirectly, to the university, town or county of Cambridge.

Published in 1892, Middleton's catalogue describes the extensive collection of engraved gems and rings at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Middleton, who was a Professor of Fine Art, describes how these ancient gems were acquired, and outlines how they both exemplify important Greek sculpture and illustrate ancient myths and rituals.

This history was published in 1921 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Newnham College, Cambridge. The mid-nineteenth-century idea of female education led to the small beginning of what became Newnham in 1871. Gardner then takes the story up to 1914 (with an epilogue on the war years).

M. R. James' detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still much sought after by librarians and researchers. His description of King's College chapel's stained-glass windows and their symbolism was first published in 1899.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was founded in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the only Cambridge college established by the town's citizens. This comprehensive history, published in 1753, gives a full account of its establishment and describes the college's most distinguished members.

First published between 1922 and 1954, this ten-volume work, compiled by distinguished Cambridge scholars John Venn and his son J. A. Venn, and invaluable to historians and genealogists, is a comprehensive directory of all known alumni of the University of Cambridge until 1900. Notable figures in this part include Christopher Green.