| Description | These papers relate to the cathedral's Library and Archives during the period before the Archives became a separate cathedral department in 1978. During this time, the cathedral's archives and muniments came under the care of the librarians. William Urry was the first to hold the title Keeper of the Manuscripts. For records after 1978, see DCc/ARC and DCc/LIB.
For an account of the history of the Library and Archives, see Nigel Ramsay, 'The Cathedral Archives and Library', in P Collinson, N Ramsay and M Sparks (eds), A history of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford, 1995), pp341-408.
This series is subdivided as follows
1 Various, 17th-18th cents (catalogued in 1992)
2 Catalogues to printed book
3 Reader/borrower records
4 Catalogues and indexes to manuscripts
5 'Manuscript Catalogues'
6 Reports
7 Accounts
8 Correspondence
9 Librarians' files: Woodruff
10 Librarians' files: Cotton and Blore
11 Librarians' files: Urry
12 Miscellaneous
Some of these sections await full cataloging.
See also
Lit MS E 40 (catalogue of benefactors to the library, 17th to 18th cents)
DCc/MB 4/9 and Add MS 208 (J B Sheppard's notebooks)
U97 and U125 (Charles Cotton papers)
U113 and U543 (Urry papers) |