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Senate House Library, University of London

Tracts on coinage


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 27

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Tracts on coinage

Date(s): [1613-1633]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 46 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

No information available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing tracts on coinage by Leon Lee, [1628-1633], namely proposals on the coinage addressed to Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland and Treasurer of England, a paper outlining methods of preventing abuse of the coinage, and an explanation of the exchange. The volume also contains a [presumably unrelated] account of the reception of Princess Elizabeth of England, at Frankenthal, for her marriage to the Elector Palatine Frederick V, later King of Bohemia, Jun 1613.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. 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:

Manuscript folio. Written in two different hands.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This manuscript was part of the library of Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), and was bought at Sotheby's by Herbert Somerton Foxwell on 19 Jun 1893.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

C E Challis 'On the Authorship and dating of the memorandum "For the understanding of the exchange"', British Institute of Historical Research, LVI, No 133, May 1983.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Coinage | Antiquities | Works of art | Arts
Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Money | Financial resources | Finance
Precious metals | Metals | Inorganic chemicals | Chemicals
Marriage
Movable cultural property

Personal names
Elizabeth | 1596-1662 | Queen Consort of Frederick I of Bohemia | daughter of King James I
Frederick V | 1596-1632 | Elector Palatine of the Rhine x Frederick I | King of Bohemia
Lee | Leon | fl 1628-1633 | writer on coinage
Weston | Richard | 1577-1635 | 1st Earl of Portland | statesman x Portland | 1st Earl of

Corporate names

Places
Bohemia | Czech Republic | Eastern Europe