Vellum, 5.875 x 4, ff. 38 + 8, 22 lines to a page.  14th cent., clearly written.

    Old parchment wrapper folding over.

    Vellum, 7.625 x 4.625, ff. 180, double columns of 39 lines.  15th and

13th cent., well written.

Cartulary of the Hospital of St Mary of Ospringe, Kent. Latin, late 13th century.

The Maison Dieu at Ospringe, Kent, was endowed by Henry III in 1234. It was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1516 and its property transferred to the nascent St John's College, Cambridge through the offices of Bishop John Fisher.

Physical description

William Heberden, Lectures on poisons. English, 1749.

'Three lectures containing some observations on the history, nature, and cure of poisons. Read at the college of physicians on the 24th, 25th & 26th of august, 1749. By W. Heberden M.D. Fellow of St John's College Cambridge.' The physician William Heberden (1710-1801) took his BA from St John's in 1728, was elected a Fellow in 1731, and received his MD in 1738. He moved to London in 1748 and was elected to the Royal Society in the following year.

J.S. Wood, Notes on manuscripts and printed books in St John's College Library. English and Latin, c. 1861-82.

John Spicer Wood (1823-93) graduated BA as 22nd Wrangler and 4th Classic in 1846 and the following year was elected to a fellowship. He took his BD in 1857 and his DD in 1869. Wood served St John's as Tutor (1860-70), President (1871-83) and Librarian (c. 1861-82).

Extracts from the Black Book of Ely. Latin, seventeenth century

Haddenham Rectory, Cambridgeshire: documents apparently relating to the appropriation, copied from the so-called 'Black Book' of Ely Diocese, the copies carefully corrected throughout by Thomas Baker. The original documents where dated are from 1276-91, and cover the entire diocese. There is an 'index', or rather a list of contents, at p. 78.

Commonplace collection of verse and prose. English, early seventeenth century

'A Collection of curious fine poems, songs, elegies, epitaphs, epigrams etc.' (at p. 1, in an eighteenth-century hand). The name John Cruso appears in a brief colophon at p. 162. No date as such, but at p. 142 'May the 24th anno 1627' is written in the main hand. An epitaph to the third earl of Dorset, who died in Mar. 1624, is at p. 50. There is also 'An Elegy uppon the death of Sir John Burrows' (p. 120), who appears to have died at La Rochelle. A Cambridge connection to pieces at p.

NB the following is a list of reprints by Sir Fred Hoyle held in the Hoyle collection and is not a complete list of his published papers.

1938

F. Hoyle, 'β-Transitions in a coulomb field', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A 166:925 (May 1938), 249-269.

1939

H.A. Bethe, F. Hoyle and R. Peierls, 'Interpretation of Beta-Disintegration Data', Nature 143 (4 Feb. 1939), 200.

NB The Astrophysics and Relativity Preprint Series and Special Preprints were produced by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University College, Cardiff. The Weston Preprint Series was produced by the Mathematics Institute, Cardiff.

1964

W.A. Fowler and F. Hoyle, Neutrino Processes and Pair Formation in Massive Stars and Supernovae, Handbuch der Eαν-Prozesse (Orange Aid Preprint Series) [1964]. 214p (2 copies).

1972

    Vellum, 11 x 7.75, ff. 173 + 1, double columns of 41 lines.  15th cent., well written.

    Donor, T. C. S.