IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 47
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Asian travel guide
Date(s): 1682
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 67 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Information not available at present.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume containing a translation from the Flemish of an account of the travels of Mr S van Döelvelt in Asia during 1674, including details of the government, religion and customs of the area. The manuscript is dated 4 Dec 1682.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
System of arrangement:
Single item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Small manuscript quarto. Bound in quarter-roan.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.
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Publication note:
Possibly printed as La republique des philosophes, ou histoire des Ajasiens, ouvrage posthume de M. de Fontenelle (Geneva, 1768).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2000