IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0059
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Humphryes, Sydney
Date(s): 1646-[1668]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Humphryes | Sydney | fl 1686 | collector of recipes
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Currently no biographical information on Sydney Humphryes is known.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sydney Humphryes, 1646-c1668, comprising a volume containing 'receipts' or recipes compiled by Sydney Humphryes, although the volume contains a variety of other hands. Including recipes for fruit waters and hair dyes, as well as treatments for burns, vomiting, the plague, and scrofula.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
A note on the second page states "Given to me by my friend R Winburn Esq. July 1820. Henry Butterworth, 7 Fleet Street". Henry Butterworth (1786-1860) was a publisher of law books.
Immediate source of acquisition:
The volume was stamped by the Library on 11 Jun 1895.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
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