Karl Weierstrass, Lectures on the theory of maxima and minima. German, 1890 or earlier

Karl Weierstrass (1815-97): ‘Theorie der Maxima und Minima sowie der Variationsrechnung, ausgearbeitet nach Vorlesungen des Herrn Prof. Dr C. Weierstrass’. In 27 chapters, through three volumes. According to an accompanying letter from A[ugustus] E[dward] H[ough] Love (1863-1940), Fellow of St John’s College, to the Librarian, J. Bass Mullinger, 21 May 1890, tipped in at the flyleaf of vol.

Notes on the life of Brook Taylor. English, ca. 1790

‘Notes added to Sir Wm Young’s Life of Dr Brook Taylor by his Granddaughter S. E. O. and copied from her book’ (fos 2r and 3r). Taylor (1685-1731) was a mathematician, and a Fellow of St John’s College. The notes are tied to identified pages in the published work, and conclude with a love poem by William Young, 1747 (fo. 11r).

John Bailey, Notes on the Bible. English, 1647

Myles Blomefylde, List of the Wards and Parish Churches of London. English, c. 1560

Myles Blomefylde, of the University of Cambridge, physician, alchemist and white magician (1525-1603): 'Here is declared the Wardes with all the parysshe Churches that stonde in those Wardes, Within the Cyte of Lond[on]' (fo. 1r); 'Here is mentioned all the Cathedrall churches, Chapelles and Other Churches that are Within the Cytie of London' (fo. 4v); 'Churches and Chapelles With out the Cytye' (fo. 5v). At fo.

F.A. Paley's copy of Aristophanis comoediae (London, 1830)

The Psalms in English by Ernest Hampden-Cook, c. 1921-31

'The Psalms for the People. An idiomatic & slightly paraphrastic translation into everyday English mainly from the Massoretic Hebrew text. By Ernest Hampden-Cook, BA London; MA Cambridge; formerly exhibitioner for Hebrew, St John's College Cambridge & Hebrew prizeman, Owens College Manchester; editor and part reviser of Dr R.F. Weymouth's 'New Testament in Modern Speech'.'

Latin verse compositions by members of St John's College, Cambridge, 1837-1859

A collection of Latin verses submitted by members of St John's College for University prizes, such as Sir William Browne's Medal for Latin Ode. Each poem appears to be in the autograph of the author. Contents as follows.

David Pegg, Greek and Latin prose and verse compositions. 1934-6

David Pegg, of St John's College (BA 1938): exercise book of Latin and Greek prose and verse translations composed while studying for Part I of the Classical Tripos at St John's, 1934-6. His work is corrected by supervisors, among them T. R. Glover, M. P. Charlesworth, R. L. Howland and H. P. W. Gatty. With MS note on contents by Professor John Crook, 24 Nov. 1999.

Thomas W. Keeble, London PhD thesis. English, 1948

Thomas Whitfield Keeble (of St John's College, d. 1994): 'The burlesque of mythology in seventeenth-century poetry in Spain', London PhD thesis, 1948. An obituary for the author appears in The Eagle (1995), 170-1.

Laurence Hilary Macklin, School and undergraduate diaries. English, 1920-4

Laurence Hilary Macklin (1902-69) was educated at Christ Church Cathedral Choir School, Oxford, and then at Felsted School. He came up to St John’s College in 1921 to read Classics, being placed in the third class in part I of the Classical Tripos in 1923. He then switched to English, achieving a third class in the English Tripos of 1924, and graduated BA. Macklin was an able oarsman and rowed in the First Boat of the Lady Margaret Boat Club in 1923 and 1924.