IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 245
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Bateman, Richard
Date(s): 1612
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 14 leaves
Name of creator(s): Bateman | Richard | fl 1612
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No information available at present.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript transcript by Richard Bateman, 1612, of a work by Benedictus Victorius Faventius containing a calculator or computer for increasing or diminishing figures, which was printed by Benedict Hector, bookseller of Bologna, in 1512. The text was copied by Bateman from a treatise of a revised edition by Dom. Gaetanus, Doctor of Medicine.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
Single item.
Conditions governing access:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. 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. Bound in calf.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Bound with Suiseth, Calculator (1520) and Grosseteste, Opuscula (1514).
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2002