MS 264: Pedigree of Peter Small, Founder's Kin Fellow 1597

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 473 MS264
  • Dates of Creation
      England, 16th c.; ca. 1597
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      Manuscript leaf 483 x 1120 mm folded to 294 x 240 mm. Text area: typically 395 x 1100 mm. Printed leaves: 283 x 218 mm Paper. Fol. 1 leaf + 4 leaves of printed material. (1 later pencil sequence of foliation in top right of each recto: 5 leaves). Binding: 19th c. brown paper over millboard. Various pencil marks on front board: shelf mark in top right corner; “25119” repeated near spine; round white label with no. “878”. Kept in a black buckram slip case, with “PEDIGREE OF SIR THOMAS WHITE” and shelfmark in gilt on spine. Binding dimensions: 315 x 266 mm.

Scope and Content

16th century genealogical table providing the pedigree for Peter Small (fl. 1596-1615), who was elected as a Founder's Kin Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1597. Bound with a 19th c. printed list of Founder's Kin Fellows. Once Phillipps MS 25119.

1. Fols 1-4: Printed pamphlet: Whyte Kindred. List of Fellows of St John's College, Oxford. Admitted as kinsmen to Sir Thomas Whyte, the Founder. 1560-1788. Includes 2 genealogical tables with 19th c? annotations, and a list of Founder's Kin Fellows to 1788, many ticked in ink. Printed in Oxford?, ca. 1820 as there is a list of Founder's Kin Fellows for this year at the end of the text.

2. Fol. 5: Pedigree of Peter Smale Founder's Kin Fellow 1597 (title from pencil inscription on label pasted to back of pedigree). English. Genealogical table drawn in black ink, with captions and other text in a single 16th c. secretary hand.

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Acquisition Information

20th c. bookplate of St John's College, Oxford, inside front board, with pencil shelfmark, and a paper label with a previous shelfmark: A 9.15. Black-inked stamps of St John's College on exterior of both boards.

Other Finding Aids

This catalogue entry derives from Stewart Tiley's unpublished descriptive catalogue of the post-1500 western manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford (2018). This entry was uploaded to ArchivesHub in April 2023 as part of the St John's College Library digitization project. To learn more about the project and to find digital resources, please visit the Digital Library

Custodial History

Various notes in black ink on verso of MS leaf.

Pencil & pen notes inside upper board, showing that the volume was purchased in 1903, for £8. An inscription in black ink on verso of the manuscript leaf, and a ink inscription on the bookplate at the front of the volume, "Olim MS Phillipps 25119", show this was once in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, bibliomaniac and antiquary (1792-1872).

Geographical Names

England