IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS DIPLOM 2
Held at: University College London
Title: Leopold I Grant
Date(s): 17th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 12 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Grant by Leopold I to Friderich Caspar and Johann C Herman of Neuhoff, 17th century.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German. Ornate minuscule script.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Vellum manuscript, with a paper fly-leaf at each end, in velvet binding, originally of deep rose colour, now very discoloured. One quire. Headings etc in gold. Gold borders of ornamental entwined leaf scroll, including an eagle at the centre, on folios 2r-2v; decorations at the centre top and base of each folio, some in scroll form.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2001