IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3881, 3882
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Philippus de Thame (fl 1330-1358)
Date(s): 1839
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Philippus de Thame | fl 1330-1358
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Not given.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Extent of the Estates of the Hospitallers in England. Taken under the direction of Prior Philip de Thame A.D. 1338. Transcribed from the original in the Public Library at Malta-1839-by me Lamb[er]t B[lackwell] Larking. Transcriber's holograph MSS.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
2 vols. 4to. 23 × 19 cm. Original calf-gilt bindings worn. The text is in Latin, but L. B. Larking has added numerous notes in English.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
From the Amherst Library, Catalogue of MSS., No. 37, p. 215, with its small armorial book-plate pasted inside the upper covers of both volumes.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased at Sotheby's 20/3/1909, Lot 497.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Publication note:
This work was printed in 1857 as Vol. 65 of the Camden Society's publications. Lambert Blackwell Larking [1797-1868], antiquary, also edited other volumes for the Camden Society.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008