St John's College W.14 (James 610)
E. H. Palmer, Notebooks. English and Arabic, 1868
Edward Henry Palmer, Fellow of St John's College (1840-82): two notebooks. The first consists of a diary kept Nov. - Dec. 1868, the second contains numerous transcripts of inscriptions found on rocks in the Negeb.
St John's College W.12
C. W. Previté-Orton, Poems. English, 1899-1903
Charles William Previté-Orton, Fellow of St John's College (1877-1947): 51 poems on various classical and country themes, most dated between 1899 and 1903. The poems are written on rectos, with further notes and corrections on the facing verso.
St John's College W.10
C. W. Previté-Orton, Poems. English, 1902-6
Charles William Previté-Orton, Fellow of St John's College (1877-1947): poems dated between 1902 and 1906. The titles are 'Zayn of the Statues', 'Rhodope', and five 'Epistles in Terza Rima' to 'A.P.O.', 'E.O.', 'E.S.O.' [Ellery Swaffield Orton, his wife], 'J.S.M.W.' [John Sebastian Marlow Ward, of Trinity Hall] and one left unaddressed. The poems are written on rectos, with further notes and corrections on the facing verso.
St John's College W.3 (part)
J. S. Boys Smith, Recollections of College life. English, 1982
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 St John's College Cambridge 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.