Sub-sub-sub-series 1 - Prizing Books

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Reference code

SJCR/SJAR/6/1/16/1

Unique identifier

GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/6/1/16/1

Title

Prizing Books

Date(s)

  • 1597-1788 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

6 volumes, paper

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The first 4 volumes were known as the Prizing or Prising Books (1597-1788) and the fifth volume as the Transfer Book.

Volumes 1-4 list the rooms transferred from one Fellow to another, with details of fittings and furniture, and the expenditure on them by successive tenants. Each tenant compensated his predecessor for improvements made. Rooms were assigned to Fellows only, and while, undergraduates slept with them or under their supervision in adjoining rooms, one cannot tell from the books where junior members were housed.

Rooms assigned to 'College' without further ascription were apparently those for the junior members, and they occur especially in Third Court which was devoted to undergraduate accommodation in the 18th century.

Also includes a volume compiled by AF Torry of notes and indices for the Prizing Books.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

The Prizing Book volumes are arranged chronologically and stored separately.

  • Volume 1 (1597-1627)
  • Volume 2 (1627-1663)
  • Volume 3 (1663-1718)
  • Volume 4 (1718-1776)
  • Volume 5 (1776-1788)
  • Volume 6 (notes & indices)

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These volumes have been microfilmed and the film is stored in the College Library under the previous reference code C12.1-5.

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Publication note

See also: "Lists of Past Occupants of Rooms in St John's College" compiled by G.C. Moore Smith (Cambridge, 1895).

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Note

These volumes were also at certain times referred to as the 'Appraising' or 'Transfer' books.

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Former Ref.

C12.1-5

Former Ref.

C12.7

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Physical storage

  • Shelf: SJAR/6/1/16/1/1-3
  • Shelf: SJAR/6/1/16/1/4
  • Shelf: SJAR/6/1/16/1/5
  • Shelf: SJAR/6/1/16/1/6