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).
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