IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/216
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Journal of the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Oxford
Date(s): c 1685
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Musgrave | William | 1655–1721 | physician and antiquary
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1655; educated at Winchester College; at New College, Oxford, 1675-1682; FRS, 1684; second secretary of the Royal Society and edited the Philosophical Transactions; formed the Philosophical Society of Oxford, 1685; practised in Oxford; practised in Exeter, 1691-; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1692; died, 1721.
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Scope and content/abstract:
The Journal of the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, by William Musgrave, original journal in two volumes; transcribed from the original Minute Books in the Ashmolean Museum.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
.Bound paper volume, size 13 x 8.5 inches, 214 folios.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: 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: Feb 2009.