IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/131
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Waller, Richard (c 1650-1715)
Date(s): [1663-1764]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Waller | Richard | c 1650-1715 | Secretary of Royal Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, c 1646; educated, Christ's College, Cambridge; BA, 1667; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1681; secretary of the Royal Society, 1687–1709 and 1710–1714; died, 1715.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Scrap book of drawings by Richard Waller attached is a report by Dr Christopher J Brooke entitled 'Avebury - Multispectral Photographic Examination of manuscript drawing in pencil by John Aubrey' made 23 February 1989 referring to MS/131/67.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
There are two different sequences used in two fields in the database:
--RefNo: Number of the folio inside of the book (MS/131/82-A)
--Previous Numbers: Number of each drawing (because they had already been numbered).
These two sequences DO NOT run in parallel because of several reasons:
1) The sequence of the folios starts, obviously, from 1 (2,3,4 ...) but the drawings are numbered starting from 2. This causes the first imbalance between both sequences.
2) Sometimes there are three (or more) drawings contained in the same folio (58-A, 58-B and 58-C are placed in folio number 57), while in other cases several drawings belonging to the same numerical sequence are distributed across different folios (60-A is placed in the folio number 59, 60-B is placed in the folio number 60, etc.)
3) There are some empty folios (sometimes with the indication of "Missing" in the list you can find at the beginning of the book). I have omitted this information in the database because there is no point indicating that there are some drawings we cannot describe, but these empty folios have been respected in both sequences.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Bound volume, size 18.5 x 14 inches.
Finding aids:
Full table of contents at front of volume.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.