Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/6/1/16/1
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1597-1788 (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-sub-sub-series
Extent and medium
6 volumes, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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)
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
These volumes have been microfilmed and the film is stored in the College Library under the previous reference code C12.1-5.
Related units of description
Publication note
See also: "Lists of Past Occupants of Rooms in St John's College" compiled by G.C. Moore Smith (Cambridge, 1895).
Notes area
Note
These volumes were also at certain times referred to as the 'Appraising' or 'Transfer' books.