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Common-Place Books, 17th century

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1740-1744

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Common-Place Books, 17th century

Date(s): c 1660

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Commonplace books containing extracts on many subjects. The compiler may possibly have been a Quaker or Nonconformist, as there are many quotations from such authorities. By a comparison of the dates of the many works quoted-which are mainly by Dissenters, Baptists, etc., these volumes seem to have been compiled not long after 1660.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and Latin

System of arrangement:

Each volume with a separate alphabet and index.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

5 vols. 8vo. 18 x 111/2 cm. Original stamped calf binding. An unpaginated leaf, or leaves, wanting before the main text of Vol. III. The text throughout is in a neat italic script, within red or black rules.

Finding aids:

Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1924.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.