St John’s College holds around 20,000 volumes printed prior to 1850, a collection discussed in more detail here. As part of the imaging phase of the digitization project, we are making a select few available online.
A.2.3
This copy of the Book of Common Prayer from 1615 used to belong to King James I. It includes two manuscript additions: a list of prayers spoken at James I’s deathbed and William Paddy’s autograph account of the king’s death.
A partial digital facsimile will be available soon!
A.2.5
A.2.5 includes a second edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1483), here with hand-coloured woodcut illustrations. It is bound with printed copies of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (1483) and John Mirk’s Quattuor Sermones (1483), as well as a manuscript copy of John Lydgate’s The Siege of Thebes (MS 266).
Catalogue entry (MS 266)
A full digital facsimile will be available soon!
A.2.11
A.2.11 is a 16th-century book of hours (Use of Salisbury), printed by Germain Hardouyn in Paris in 1530. This book was printed on vellum, and it has been designed to look like a manuscript. You can learn more about this book in our blog post.
A full digital facsimile will be available soon!