IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS GERM 33
Held at: University College London
Title: Meister Manuscript
Date(s): 1733, 1738
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Meister | Johann Heinrich | 1700-1781 | Swiss minister, theologian and writer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 1733, 1738, containing two texts by Johann Heinrich Meister (Jean Henri Le Maitre), 'Christliche Glaubens- und Lebenslehre' (Instructions in the Life and Faith of a Christian), followed by a short tract, 'Examen des communicans pour l'usage de l'Eglise Françoise de Buckebourg' (examination of communicants for the use of the French church at Bückeburg).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and French. Cursive hand.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Paper manuscript bound in half vellum. One hand. 20.5cm.
Finding aids:
List at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Bookplate of Arthur B Evans.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Swiss National Library, Berne, holds documents relating to Meister.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: Swiss National Library website at http://www.snl.ch. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
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: Sep 2001