IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 391
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Mathematical treatise
Date(s): c1682
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 116 leaves.
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information available at present.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing a mathematical treatise, [1682], with diagrams in the text. The chapter headings are: 'Analysis triangulorum rectilineorum', 'geometriae practicae cap. 1m', 'principia geographiae generalia', 'de globe eiusque usibus', 'de projectione astronomica', 'de invenienda locorum longitudine', and 'astronomia'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
Single item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Manuscript octavo. Bound in calf, worn. With a worm-hole through ff.1-13, slightly affecting the text.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bought from Myers & Co. in 1952.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison 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: Jun 2001