This page contains a brief list of books and articles relating to the formation and development of the Parker Library, with particular reference to the early printed books.

• Corpus Christi College Matthew Parker’s Legacy: Books and Plate (Cambridge: Corpus Christi College, 1975)
• “Corpus Christi College, Cambridge” in Clarke, Peter D. ed. The University and College Libraries of Cambridge (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 10) (London: The British Library, 2002), p. 166-254, UC18-25
  Cited as CBMLC in the catalogue. UC22 lists books granted by Peter Nobys after July 1525, the first major donation of printed books to the Library.
  
• De Hamel, Christopher The Parker Library: Treasures from the Collection (Cambridge: Corpus Christi College, 2000)
• Dickins, Bruce “Henry Gostling’s Library in 1674″ Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. III (1959-63), p. 216-224.
• Dickins, Bruce “The Making of the Parker Library” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. VI (1972-76), p. 19-34
• Fletcher, John M. & James K. McConica “A Sixteenth-Century Inventory of the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. III (1959-63), p. 187-199.
  Re-edited as CBMLC UC25.
  
• Gaselee, Stephen The Early Printed Books in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: A Hand-List Arranged in Order of Country, Town & Press (Cambridge: University Press, 1921)
• James, M.R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Cambridge: University Press, 1912)
• Page, R.I. “Audits and Replacements in the Parker Library: 1590-1650″ Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. X (1991-95), p. 17-39.
• Page, R.I. Matthew Parker and his Books: Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered on 14, 16, and 18 May 1990 at the University of Cambridge (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993).