IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/215
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Copies of Papers read to the Society
Date(s): 1662-1664
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Hooke | Robert | 1635-1703 | natural philosopher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Created by Robert Hooke as copies of papers read to the Society.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of papers read to the Royal Society about 1662-1664, in three hands: pages 1-164 in one hand (the hand of Robert Hooke); pages 165-193 in another; and pages 193 to end in a third.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By date of reading. The RefNo refers to the number fo the item; the Previous Number refers to the page on which the article begins.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Vellum bound volume of 97 folios, size 14 inches x 9.5 inches. Paper. Note on inside states; 'Minutes of some Member of the Royal Society before that body was incorporated bought in Chandler's Shop at Waltham Abbey by J Adams'. One leaf torn out. Bookplate with coat of arms of T Allen FSA. Pages 89 and 90 are missing .
Finding aids:
Table of contents at end of volume. Items have not been listed separately in Archive Card Catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See Register Book Original Volume II.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: 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: Feb 2009.