IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ANGL 4
Held at: University College London
Title: Parliamentary Texts
Date(s): 17th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume containing 157 leaves
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 17th century: the Manner of Holdinge a Parliament in England in 24 Articles, comprising eight texts on parliamentary history, back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and on procedure, concerning both the House of Lords and the House of Commons and their powers.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and Latin. Cursive hands.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Physical characteristics:
Paper manuscript bound in light vellum. Various hands. 31cm.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), which summarises the contents of the manuscript; handlist at University College London Special Collections.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
With the monogram FR and the inscription: sold at Puttick & Simpsons ... 1857 (f 1*r).
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: 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