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Consists of reprints, a pre-publication paper and a photocopy of published comments by Mommaerts

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Comprises correspondence on Bronowski being invited to address the Technology and Culture Seminar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of a series on 'The Images of Man', Bronowski accepting and suggesting he lecture on 'The Impersonality of Science' based on his paper 'A Twentieth Century Image of Man', cancellation of Bronowski's talk due to illness, and requests for a transcript of Bronowski's planned address or for him to give the talk at a later date.

Also includes a record about the engagement created for the file, invitations to other lectures in the series, information about the 'Images of Man' series and a paper on the Technology and Culture Seminar.

"Mit fried und freud ich fahr dahin" (for organ?) [Bux WV76a] and klag-Lied [Bux WV76b] from the "Tod des Vaters" for soprano and organ byDietrich Buxtehude, transcribed and edited by Peter Hurford.

Concert of works by Benjamin Britten in the College Chapel on Sunday 11th March 1973 at 8.30pm

Missa Brevis for mixed chorus and organ. By Zoltán Kodály.
Published by Noosey & Hawkes, Inc., New York.

Includes the Cockpit, Stopcock, Jesus College Presents..,The Cruisible, Diplomat Soup, Profanity

Photocopies of pages of music for:

(1) Ye that Know the Lord is Gracious by David Billingham
(2) I cannot Tell
(3) Psalm 121
(4) Morning has Broken
(5) I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
(6) He Lives
(7) Wonderful Grace of Jesus
(8) A Tender Shoot
(9) Deo Gratias
(10) Cry Out and Shout

Miscellaneous receipt. Details £27 8s 6d of unknown costs; Bills totalling £27 8s 6d; Income Tax totalling £15s 6s 3d; and other costs amounting to a grand total of £525 0s 9d.

Consists of memoranda sent between Salk Institute staff on various subjects, mainly relating to the day-to-day operation of the Institute including keys, salaries, first aid.

Also includes: a memorandum relating to filming in Bronowski's office [for 'Jacob Bronowski: Twentieth Century Man' television programme], 1971; and a photocopy of a Salk Institute press release about the Arthur Vining Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology by established at the Salk Institute (Apr 1975).

Comprises: copies of drawings made for 'The Face of Violence' by Yosl Bergner (1960); an autobiographical note on Bronowski; a promotional leaflet for 'The Face of Violence' production by the Old Globe Theatre (San Diego); a thank you card from the cast and crew of 'The Face of Violence; copies of 'On Stage magazine: San Diego's entertainment publication' containing articles and information about 'The Face of Violence' and an article on 'The Law-Breaker as Hero' by Bronowski; a copy of a letter to Craig Noel (Director) from Bronowski complimenting Noel on 'The Face of Violence' Old Globe Theatre production; an annotated typescript of additional material for Old Globe production; and a review of 'The Face of Violence'.

Also includes: a postcard from Francis [Crick, relating to a lecture by Bronowski on 'Is man a machine?']; a copy of the Salk Institute Newsletter (no. 5, 1973) containing an article about Bronowski completing 'The Ascent of Man' television series; a photocopy of a press cutting about Bronowski's Christmas card (Sunday Times, 16 Dec 1973); a KPBS television programme guide, TV guide and Salk Institute staff memorandum with details of showings of 'Jacob Bronowski: 20th Century Man' (Sep 1972); a promotional leaflet and press release for 'Jacob Bronowski: 20th Century Man' television series; a reading list on Science, Technology and Human Values prepared by the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and including 'Science and Human Values' by Bronowski; a copy of a review of 'The Identity of Man' (in 'Modern Age', summer 1972); a notice about a presentation by Bronowski on Dr Daniel Lehrman's work and contributions to science (signed by Jonas Salk); and a poster for a lecture on 'Renascences in American Antiquity' by George A Kubler with a performance of the UCSD Madrigal Singers (programme sponsored by the Salk Institute and project for a Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California in San Diego).

Additionally includes press cuttings about the Salk Institute, on the subject of violence and government, Apollo space missions, 'The Face of Violence' production at the Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, 1971), and a book review of 'William Blake and the Age of Revolution'.

Includes:

Seal of Michaelhouse, c. 1350

Fragment of wallpaper reportedly from the Master's Lodge, c. 1850

Cardboard box for a Super all square die plate dater once used in the College Library, c. 1950

Maroon and a black hard cover folder of type that formerly held committee, Council and Society minutes, c. 1960. Minutes were held in these style folders from the mid 1940s until about 2015

Newspapers found in wall of the foyer at the bottom of stairs to hall by Brittian doors during kitchen renovations 3 March 2022 viz Cambridge Daily News, 18 July 1962, Daily Herald, 20 July 1962 and Evening Standard 20 July 1962. Probably left in the wall at the time the stairs and entrance to hall were created in 1962

Digital photograph of a 1965 Audit Ale bottle

Front cover for 'Jesus College Cambridge Conference pad', c. 1990

Cardboard mask with feathers in College colours

Two clay pig ornaments dressed as porters and in College colours and a small cockerel on an egg ornament, all given by Peter Bacon, former head porter, on his retirement in 2001

Pages from the Sun newspaper dated 20 August 2007 found under the dais in Hall in January 2022 when the floorboards of the dais were lifted as part of wider renovation works

Wrappers for College branded chocolate after dinner mints. c.2000, 2017 and 2018

Fragments of 'wood effect' wallpaper from the Porters Lodge found during renovations in August 2018

College branded paper napkins, 2019

Postcard left anonymously under the Rustat Memorial in he wake of the Church Court decision not to remove the memorial from the Chapel. Writing on back in Haitian.

Various financial workings and related minor notes on scrap of paper originally from the Cambridge Gas-Light Company.

Correspondence mainly about church restoration, and augmentation of the living.

Various letters and queries, including: a question about the glebe lands, painting the outside of the church, draft presentation of the Revd A.O Lukyn-Williams as Vicar (1916), sale of glebe lands 1917-18, other expenses and valuation 1920.

Includes correspondence and notes relating to use of the University Combination Room in the Old Schools, 1979; acquisition of an oak framed and green baize notice board, 1982; terms on which guests of Fellows can dine in the SCR, 1982; improved lighting in pigeon hole area, 1987; collection of Fellows gowns from an undergraduate room in Chapel Court, 1989;

Information from meeting discussing comparative Hall dinner charges; letter about suggestion for sharing kitchen staff; notice about payment for cigars

Notice of vacancy and purchase of an estate

One folder containing correspondence with College staff and invitations to reunion dinners in 1967 and 1984 and an annual dinner in 2011.

A collection of miscellaneous items listed individually

A small collection of notes and programmes for College missions 1951, 1960, lectures by Canon M.A.C. Warren, Friday Forum (lectures by different people) 1980-81, discussions on Thursdays in the Chaplain's rooms 1978; volume recording details of intercessions, 1955 - 1962; a notice of the College retreat at Launden Abbey 2005; Certificate from Cambridgeshire County Council approving Jesus College as a location for the performance of civil marriage ceremonies and the formation of civil partnerships, 16th July 2014; book of condolence for the death of Queen Elizabeth II, 2022

Discussions about the state of the Rectory, which was eventually replaced, finances etc.

Letters about repairs, and charities

Comprises: research notes on subjects including the Horse (for programme 2), the history of the development of the atomic bomb, Enrico Fermi; photocopies from books, articles and press cuttings on Enrico Fermi, nuclear physics, the atom, and burial mounds in Santander (Spain); and a photocopy of the catalogue of the Papers of Enrico Fermi (at Special Collections, University of Chicago Library).

Receipt for various repairs to college property on Fitzroy Street carried out by Bradwell & Son around Michaelmas 1876: alterations and additions to house occupied by Mr Wood, costing £79 15s, and alterations and additions to house occupied by Mr Hills, costing £67. Total amount £146 15s.

Receipt for repairs carried out by James Bareham, drawn up by Robert F. Cuthbert. Includes:

• Jobs to house, outbuildings, and barns (incl lime, sand, hair, nails)
• Repairing walls to inside and outside of house and repairing walls and tiling and foundations of outbuildings (incl lath, hair, nails, lime, sand).
• Repairing and tiling walls to chance (incl materials).
  Signed off by James Bareham.

£6 13s 6d paid for various repairs to the Master's Lodge, including cleaning down the church door jambs, repairing the seat of the WC and the fanning at the back, fixing the skylight and putting fastenings on the door, repairing the servants' two WCs, fixing two door sills on the closet and garden gate, fixing window boards to the landing window, and sourcing the materials required for all these repairs (bricks, deal planks, mortar, whitewash, etc.). Payment brought forward to 1874, including new costs for further repairs to WCs, outbuildings, the coach house, the floor of the butler's room, and other misc. repairs. Total cost £17 5s 11d.

Also costs for repairs around the rest of college totalling £19 19s, for: raising ladders and repairing slating, repairing slating over servants' hall, cleaning out drains, rehanging door in Pump Court, examining fireplaces and cutting away/repairing the stone work, cleaning out the cesspool, repairing floor in old buildings, replastering staircases, fixing stone work in the cellar, taking out the mangle from the buttery and fixing it, carpentry work in Old Court, taking up old stone in passage, cleaning out the gutters and pipes around the chapel, repairing slating over roof of I staircase, fixing wine and coal bins, fixing noticeboards and repairing the floor in chapel, and sourcing the materials for all these repairs.

£37 6s 3d paid for repairs around the precincts, including: repairs to pipe casings, fences in wood yard, garden gate, door of WC, cutting holes and letting in irons for gate latches, work to the stables, repairing slating and chimney pot, and sourcing building materials for all these repairs, taking up stone paving in courts, continued work on traps and drains, digging out and draining cesspool, repairing paving to front entrance, replacing flag paving in cloisters, repairing and rehanging back gates, fixing pebbling and brickwork, making and hanging a 4-bar oak gate, make a beater and mallet, and sourcing the materials for all this work.

£25 3s 7d paid for repairs to kitchen, including: repairing steps, making and fixing a drawer, opening and cleaning large cesspool and carrying away the filth in the night cart, cleaning out drains, removing and cleaning the hot plates, preparing and fixing plate rack and top of sink and shelves in scullery, and a new front for the dresser, cleaning round the oven, taking up the old floor and replacing it with York floor, repairing/cleaning copper.

Total payments for repairs across 1873-4 to be paid at Michaelmas 1874, totalling £99 14s 9d.

A medical miscellany; M. R. James's no. 43. Contains: 1) notes of apothecaries' weights; 2) a Latin treatise on materia medica, chiefly taken from Isidore and Pliny; 3) Liber de infirmitatis et venenis; 4) accounts of various substances; 5) De passionibus oculum; 6) a treatise De urinis, in English; 7) Secreta mulierum, in English; 8) Materia medica, in English, followed by notes on plants and on "makyng of oyles"; 9) Dicta ypocracii; 10) a series of short passages, mostly in English: De quatuor infirmitatibus corperum, On the nine pulses, To wete & to knowe the veynes of blode letynge, On the pure complexions, De numeris ossium; 11) a treatise by John of Burdews [also de Burgall] "for medysyn ageyn the pestlens evylle" of 1390; 12) a Latin tract on medicines. Recipes appear passim. The flyleaves contain records of legal cases.

A medical miscellany; M. R. James's no. 72. Contains: 1) recipes in English and Latin; 2) Incipiunt notabilia distinctiones textus distinctiones librorum de anima extracte, with three books "De anima" following; 3) memorial verses, in Latin; 4) recipes in Latin and scribbled notes; 5) Utrum logica sit scientia; 6) Hic incipiunt distincciones et notabilia extracta a questionibus super primum librum phisicorum Aristotelis; 7) recipes in Latin and scribbled notes, including a hymn; 8) Hic incipiunt notabilia extracta ex tercio de anima secundum Alexandrum; 9) recipes in Latin; 10) [by Albertus], Primo est sciendum secundum M. henricum de mandavilla quod eodum modo operatur cecus in ligno et cirurgicus in corpore cuius anothomiam ignorat; 11) recipes; 12) Armaldus de nova villa de gradibus; 13) recipes; 14) a separate book fo recipes for parts of the body, incipit: Conferunt cerebro … ; 15) Contenta magistri Walteri Agulini de urinis; 16) recipes

Comprises: posters for Renaissance symposia; and correspondence between Bronowski and William R Emerson (Director, Division of Research, National Endowment for the Humanities) on proposals for funding from Rice University (Houston, Texas) and the University of Michigan for symposia on Nicolaus Copernicus. With copies of the grant applications (sent to Bronowski to review).

Includes catalogues, leaflets advertising equipment, invoices for repairs to equipment, instructions for dictation machines, and operating manuals for other equipment.

Comprises slides for all 3 'The Prophetic Eye' lectures (including some labelled as "rejected"), slides of colour portraits of Bronowski, negatives of images used for all 3 lectures and the original slide box.

Wycliffite texts, principally Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (imperfect), in English; M. R. James's no. 30. The first volume contains: 1) an unidentified fragment, imperfect at both ends; 2) "xii capituli" [12 chapters], imperfect at the start; 3) Bernardus de dignitate clericorum; 4) De uita b. M. virginis [incipit: "Circa uirginem uero ex qua incarnacio facta fuit"]; 5) "Incipiunt quedam miracula de S. Maria"; 6) Hic incipiunt meditaciones de passione. Both 5) and 6) are in a 15C hand. The second volume contains the Gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke, in a small hand of early 15C date, ending at the 9th chapter of Luke, verse 24.

Minutes of college meetings, kept by Arthur Gray, Master (1912-40).