Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJES/7/1
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJCR/SJES/7/1
Title
Thin Red Book
Date(s)
- 1515-1542 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1511-)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The parchment end-leaves and 17th century index are stored in 46/ESTATES.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Latin
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
Related units of description
Publication note
Calendared partially in J. E. B. Mayor (ed.)., "Baker's History of the College of St John the Evangelist" (Cambridge, 1869)
Notes area
Note
The first folio gives two dates: anno quarto Henrici Octa vi and anno Dmi 1513.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former Ref.
C7.11