IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS372
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Transcripts of accounts of journeys of Spanish nobility and royalty
Date(s): c 1600
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 items
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information was available at the time of compilation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Transcripts of accounts of journeys of Spanish nobility and royalty, journeys include: Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria from Milan to Flanders, 1599; entry of Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, into Ferrara 13 November 1598; Philip III of Spain to Madrid in 1599; Archduke Albert of Austria, Count of Flanders, from Barcelona to Genoa in 1599; entry of Phillip III into Valencia in 1599.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Spanish
System of arrangement:
See hard-copy catalogue.
Conditions governing access:
Open for research. 24 hours notice should be given before a research visit.
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.
Finding aids:
A hard-copy catalogue is also available in the Special Collections reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
In 1928 Edward Phelips bequeathed the collection to the Corporation of London in memory of his sister, Clare Louisa Eliot; in 1950 the Guildhall Library placed it on permanent deposit in the University Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Guildhall Library.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the Senate House catalogue and edited 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.