Item 1 - Thin Red Book

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SJCR/SJES/7/1

Unique identifier

GB 1859 SJCR/SJES/7/1

Title

Thin Red Book

Date(s)

  • 1515-1542 (Creation)

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1 item, paper

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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.

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Accruals

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The parchment end-leaves and 17th century index are stored in 46/ESTATES.

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  • English
  • Latin

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Publication note

Calendared partially in J. E. B. Mayor (ed.)., "Baker's History of the College of St John the Evangelist" (Cambridge, 1869)

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Note

The first folio gives two dates: anno quarto Henrici Octa vi and anno Dmi 1513.

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C7.11

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Physical storage

  • Shelf: SJES/7/1
  • Box: 46/ESTATES