St John’s College Library has around 180 western medieval manuscripts, the majority of which are catalogued in Ralph Hanna’s Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John’s College Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
As part of the ongoing digitization project, these catalogue entries have all been published online on Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries.
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Astronomy and Astrology: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 164, fol. 1r. Bibles: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 21, fol. 54r. Classics: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 87, fol. 1r. Computus: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 17 fol. 28r. Devotion: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 82, fol. 29v. Encyclopedias: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 5, fol. 37r. Grammar: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 152, fol. 1v. History and Genealogy: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 23, fol. 4v. Law: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 257, fol. 156v. Letters: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 126, fol. 1r; Medicine: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 108 fol. 1r. Middle English Literature: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 340, fol. 4r. Morality: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 61, fol. 61r. Music and Liturgy: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 167, fol. 10r. Philosophy: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 142, fol 11r. Politics: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 12, fol. 16r; Saints’ Lives: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 96, fol. 1r. Sermons & Homilies: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 11, fol. 49r Theology: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 20, fol. 1r. Miscellaneous: Oxford, St John’s College, MS 235 fragment 109.