St John's College W.3 (part)
J. S. Boys Smith, Recollections of College life. English, 1979
The Revd John Sandwith Boys Smith, Fellow and Master of St John's College (1901-91): 'Recollections of life in St John's College, 1919-1945', 1979. Boys Smith was at various times Tutor, Senior Tutor, Junior and Senior Bursar, and Master of St John's. These memories were written down at the prompting of the College Archivist, Malcolm Underwood. A few comments on Boys Smith's recollections by Professor John Crook and Dr Peter Linehan, both Fellows of the College, have been tipped in.
St John's College W.3 (part) (James 358)
Thomas Balguy, Lectures on Moral Philosophy. English, c. 1745
Thomas Balguy, of St John's College (1716-95): 'The following Pages contain the outline of a course of Lectures on Moral Philosophy, which were delivered in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ°²×¿ by Dr Balguy and the References are in the Author's own writing' (nineteenth-century inscription on fo. 1r). Two separate sections, running from each end of the vol. Compiled c. 1745.
St John's College W.3 (part) (James 357)
'The Butterfly', English, c. 1795
St John's College U.71-74
Annotated copy of the 1738 Bodleian Library catalogue.
St John's College U.67-8 and U.69-70
Annotated copies of the 1674 Bodleian Library catalogue.
St John's College U.66
Catalogue of books from the library of Charles Taylor, August 1908.
St John's College U.64-5
A catalogue of the books bequeathed to St John's College by Thomas Baker. English and Latin, 1822.
St John's College U.57-63
Copies of historical documents relating to Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. Latin and English, c. 1820.
Historical documents relating to the university, colleges and town of Cambridge, to Cambridgeshire, and to the diocese of Ely, chiefly copied from the manuscripts of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), in seven volumes.
St John's College U.52-56
Ernest Hampden-Cook, Translations from the Old and New Testaments. English, 1922-31.
St John's College U.44-51
'Rotuli Parliamentorum'. French, Latin and English, late 18th cent.
Eight volumes forming an incomplete set of transcripts from medieval parliament rolls, covering the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI, i.e. 1260-1437. It is not known for whom the transcripts were made or, in most cases, the sources from which they were taken. A printed edition of the Rotuli Parliamentorum, covering the reigns of Edward I to Henry VII (i.e. 1278 to 1503) was published in London in six volumes in 1767-77.