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Includes an article by Evelyne Sperling on the wooden, inlaid chimney-piece in Cambridge.

Includes correspondence, financial accounts, minute books, and ephemera.

The Thick Black Book: register of letters, leases and presentations. Folio 528 onwards was separated by the [ ?] late 17th century when the book was bound and indexed. The folios were rediscovered during analysis of miscellaneous material in May 1981. Indexes were written by Mr. Sell c.1685-1686.

A register of letters, leases and presentations. According to the frontispiece the volume was also referred to as the Black Booke [sic], the thynn [sic] Black Book or Liber Magistri. There is a small table of contents/index inserted into the front of the volume along with a more detailed index beginning on Fo.11.

Copy of College statutes with notes of by-foundations and benefactions, includes references to pages in the Thin Black Book. Also includes University Statutes.

A register of letters, inventories, leases, presentations and memoranda. Paste downs at each end (lifted during repair in 1981) contain a passage from Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3, lines 511ff, interlinated with a Latin gloss, and introduced by a more extensive commentary, in a cursive mid-late fifteenth-century hand. Also included is a 17th century index to the Thin Red Book.

Photographs and negatives of Third Court and the Old Library, including general views of Third Court at junction with the library building, from the river and from Master's garden; general views of the interior and exterior of the Old Library; and images taken of the Old Library during the inspection for death watch-beetle.

Map of SJC property at Birchington by Thomas Ashenden of Canterbury, reduced from tithe maps, with detailed reference, (53 x 62 cms)
Original scale: 5 chains to 1 inch.

Letters from Thomas Ashton, Senior Bursar (1535-1539) to John Taylor regarding College business and estates.

Letter, Thomas Beadon fellow of SJC, Taunton, to Anthony Tuckney; Beadon has been forced to leave his London living for financial reasons & cannot come to Cambridge yet to commence B.D., so requests a dispensation to retain his fellowship; Note of a grant by seniors endorsed.

Letter, no year, Thomas Beston, Nassington, Northamptonshire, to John Taylor SJC Master, about the Bishop of Lincoln's jurisdiction in Nassington.

Includes: Account book containing accounts for graduate students (also includes nobles and Fellows); accounts with James Wood and Joshua Smith (1797 to 1811); accounts with John Mortlock Esq. & Co. (1790 to 1807); accounts with Messers Thomas Coutts & Co. (1805 to 1818); and accounts with St John’s College for ‘Plate Caution’ (1797 to 1810).

Among the graduates listed is the Rev. Henry Martyn (p.65) and among the fellow-commoners the Right Honourable Charles Yorke (p.136).

Includes: the historian Hugh Brogan on the life and character of Clarkson; and anthropologist Keith Hart on Clarkson's involvement in human rights and abolition.

Letter, Thomas Crask, to Humphrey Gower SJC Master, copying terms of exhibition left to SJC by John Symonds (d.1703) for poor clergy's sons, or founder's kin.

Includes: accounts of Thomas Crick and Edward Brumell; class lists, accounts of Edward Brumell and other tutors.

Petition, n.d., Thomas Deane tenant of a cottage & croft at Staveley to Richard Clayton SJC Master, for the renewal of tenancy without increase of rent.

Letter, n.d., Thomas Fell to SJC, commending the bearer Edward Fell for a William Fell fellowship.