Library Exhibition 17 April – 20 September 2026 Curated by Petra Hofmann (Special Collections Librarian) Contents Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1483) Jane Austen, Letters (1814) Manuscript Addition to Book of Common Prayer (1625) William Laud, History of my Troubles (1641-1645) Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova (1609) Second Folio of William Shakespeare’s Plays (1632) Brittany GospelsContinue reading “Treasures of St John’s College Library”
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The Conservation of Peter Small’s Pedigree
by Emma Skinner, Oxford Conservation Consortium November 2022 Before Treatment This large sixteenth-century genealogical table recently arrived at the Oxford Conservation Consortium’s studio for treatment. It provides the pedigree for Peter Small, who was elected as a Founder’s Kin Fellow of St John’s in 1597.[1] It was bound with a nineteenth-century printed list of Founder’sContinue reading “The Conservation of Peter Small’s Pedigree”