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Ashby, Eusebius (1662-1741) (and others)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.993-994

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Ashby, Eusebius (1662-1741) (and others)

Date(s): 1705-1740

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Ashby | Eusebius | 1662-1741

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Eusebius Ashby of Blaby in Leicestershire, son of George Ashby of Quenby in the same County.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The first book of horses and the Second book of horses contributed to by a number of different grooms, huntsmen, farriers, etc., but predominately in the hand of Eusebius Ashby.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In 2 volumes.

Conditions governing access:

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. 201/2 x 15 cm. Vol. I in original panelled calf binding, Vol. II in original vellum binding.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Sotheby's 10/4/1919.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Horses | Mammals | Animals | Zoology
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Veterinary medicine | Medical sciences
Vertebrates

Personal names
Ashby | Eusebius | 1662-1741

Corporate names

Places