X-Nico

unusual facts about Parker Library, Corpus Christi College



Achi, Enugu

The oldest Secondary educational institutions in Achi include Corpus Christi College (founded in 1960), Girls Secondary School (founded in 1962).

Adam Pinkhurst

Mooney, then a professor at the University of Maine and a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, proposed to match Pinkhurst's flamboyantly-written signature on an oath he signed to his lettering to the handwriting in these early manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, thought to be closely derived from Chaucer's holograph.

Alexander Gill the Elder

He was born in Lincolnshire 7 February 1565, was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in September 1583, and proceeded B.A. 1586 and M. A. 1589.

Alfred Richardson

The fourth son of the rector of Sandy, Richardson was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and was a student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1895 when he played as a right-handed batsman in a match for Somerset against the university side.

An Giolla Glas Ó Caiside

Ó Caiside's manuscript still exists and is stored in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Arthur Richmond Atkinson

After studying at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Atkinson was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1887, before returning to New Zealand the same year.

Christopher Layne

Diploma in Historical Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

James E. Ferrell

With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut, currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

James Haddon

Among manuscripts preserved Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is a letter De Matrimonio addressed to him, probably by Martin Bucer.

John Leonard Thorn

On returning to civilian life, he took up a place at Corpus Christi, graduating in 1949, and was then an assistant schoolmaster at Clifton from 1949 until being appointed headmaster of Repton in 1961.

Laurence Eaves

Laurence Eaves was born in Pentre, Rhondda, UK in 1948 and was educated at Rhondda County Grammar School, Porth, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took Firsts in Physics and Mathematics Moderations and in Physics Final Honours.

Madeleine Bunting

Born in Oswaldkirk, North Yorkshire, Bunting was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she read History, and won a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study Politics and teach at Harvard.

Night climbing

In 2007, Corpus Christi alumnus Ivo Stourton published the novel The Night Climbers which is based on a group of students who engage in the practice.

Parker Library on the Web

Parker Library on the Web was a multi-year undertaking of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the Stanford University Libraries and the Cambridge University Library, to produce a high-resolution digital copy of every imageable page in the 538 manuscripts described in M. R. James Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College (Cambridge University Press, 1912).

Parker Library, Corpus Christi College

Other items include medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, one of the oldest pieces of extant written music, and illuminated manuscripts, such as the Bury Bible (c. 1135) and the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris (c. 1250).

Ralph Morice

Morice, from his official position, was in possession of information, and helped John Foxe and others in their literary researches, mainly by supplying them with his Anecdotes of Cranmer. This compilation was used by Strype in his Memorials of Cranmer, and was reprinted from the manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in Narratives of the Reformation (Camden Society).

Richard Finn

Returning to Corpus, he studied for a DPhil, producing a thesis entitled The Christian promotion and practice of almsgiving in the later Roman Empire: (313-450), which was supervised by Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey.

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

However, no action was taken until 1902, when the work was begun by William Little, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Stephen Batman

Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Sydney Gedge

Born in North Runcton, Norfolk, he was the eldest son of the Rev. Sydney Gedge, and was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Thurning, Norfolk

In 1823, the church gained the furnishings of the old chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, when that was demolished.

Tom Hayhoe

He studied history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge achieving a double first, and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business which he attended on a Harkness Fellowship.

Tom Utley

He went to Westminster School and to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow

He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, between 1862 and 1868, and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, between 1868 and 1971 and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Wale Babalakin

In 1982, Wale Babalakin was one of only three Africans admitted into Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University for the pioneer Master of Laws Degree.

William Horbury

William Horbury is Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University.

Winchester Troper

One can be found in Oxford, in the Bodleian Library (MS Bodley 775), the other in Corpus Christi, Cambridge (MS473), but were copied out at, and originally used at Winchester Cathedral.


see also