Contact/Visit
Contact
Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
United Kingdom
tel: 01223 332912
fax: 01223 332923
email: fitzmuseum-msspb@lists.cam.ac.uk
Staff
Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper
Mr Nicholas Robinson, Curatorial Assistant
Mr Robert Proctor, Conservator
Mrs Svetlana Taylor, Conservator (Handel Conservation Project)
Mr John Lancaster, Technician
Dr Suzanne Reynolds, Research Associate (Cambridge Illuminations Research Project)
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Founder's Library will be closed from 20 February until 6 April 2010 for building works. During this period it will not be possible to consult material from the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books: illuminated manuscripts, fine printed books, manuscript and printed music, literary autographs, and archives. There may be delays in answering enquiries while the material is not accessible.
We apologise for the inconvenience and look forward to seeing you after 6 April.
Visiting the Department
Curatorial material in the Department may be consulted by appointment. First-time visitors need to send or bring a letter of reference and a passport-size photograph. They may make appointments to revisit at any time in the future without further formalities.
Before visiting, scholars and students are advised to consult the following catalogues and reference tools:
Fine printed Books
Records on all fine printed books in the Museum collections are available on line through NEWTON, the Union Library Catalogue of Cambridge University. Select (Departments and Faculties F-M).
Music
J.A. Fuller-Maitland and A.H. Mann, Catalogue of the Music in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London, 1893.
A Short-Title Catalogue of Music Printed Before 1825 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ed. V. Rumbold and I. Fenlon, Cambridge, 1992.
A selection of manuscript and printed music is also available through NEWTON (see Fine Printed books above) and new records are currently being added.
Autographs and Archives
An index of authors is available in the Department. The Archive of John Linnell is catalogued in full on the Museum's Online Catalogue. On-going cataloguing adds new records on the remaining archival material to it.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1895.
M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1912.
F. Wormald and P. Giles, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1982.
A multi-volume series of catalogues of Western illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Colleges of Cambridge is in preparation by the Cambridge Illuminations Research Project (link)