IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0030
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Isham, Elizabeth
Date(s): c 1659
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Isham | Elizabeth | c 1558-c 1630 | writer
Sendall | Thomas | fl 1659 | writer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Elizabeth Isham was born in Braunston, Northamptonshire, in c 1558. She lived in Warden, Bedfordshire and married Henry Cave. She died in c 1630.
No biographical information is currently known for Thomas Sendall, fl 1659.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Elizabeth Isham and Thomas Sendall, c 1659, comprising a manuscript volume of recipes. The title page contains two titles. The first 'This is a booke of phisick of Elizabeth Isham' and the second 'Thomas Sendall Scripsit An[no] domini 1659'. The titles are in two different scripts. It was possibly originally started by Elizabeth Isham and then continued by Thomas Sendall. Other scripts also occur in the volume. Some recipes are titled with names of their 'creators' eg Lady Simon, Dr Stevens, Lady Dowglasse, Mrs Dormor. Inserted after page 48 there is a short note on the theatres of Elizabethan London.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Access to bona fide researchers by written appointment.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying conditions Photocopying prohibited due to fragile nature of manuscript. Photographic copies may be acceptable at the discretion of the Librarian, provided the copy is for private study or research (non-commercial).
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
Card catalogue and Access database.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Sources: This information has been found using a Google search.
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