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Troward Manuscript

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 18

Held at: University College London

Title: Troward Manuscript

Date(s): Early 19th century-mid 19th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 282 leaves + 12 blank

Name of creator(s): Troward | Richard

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sarah, younger daughter of the solicitor Richard Ironmonger Troward and sister of Richard Troward, the author of this manuscript, married the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) in 1824.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript. Bound in half leather and marble boards. One hand throughout. 32.5cm.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed to University College London by Thomas Hewitt Key and received in 1876. At the beginning of the manuscript is pasted a letter from his son, announcing the gift of this manuscript, together with MS LAT 14.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

The manuscript is referred to in Thomas Hewitt Key's Language: its origin and development (London, 1874), p 44.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.