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Liber epistolaris: a commonplace book of Henry Oldenburg


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/1

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Liber epistolaris: a commonplace book of Henry Oldenburg

Date(s): 1655-1661

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 206 ff.

Name of creator(s): Oldenburg | Henry [Heinrich] | c 1617-1677 | scientific correspondent and Secretary of the Royal Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Education: School and University at Bremen; MTh (1639); Oxford (entered 1656). Career: Lived in England (1640-1648); travelled on the continent, returning to Bremen (1652); sent by the Council of Bremen to negotiate with Cromwell (1653); Tutor to Henry, son of Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond, and Richard Jones (FRS 1663), son of Robert Boyle's sister, Catherine, Lady Ranelagh; accompanied Jones to France and Germany (1657-1660); published 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' (1665-1677); imprisoned in the Tower of London (1667) on suspicion that his extensive foreign correspondence was political, rather than scientific; worked as a translator (1670).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy letters and notes by Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society, prefaced by a note on the volume's presentation by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, Italian and Latin

System of arrangement:

Open

Conditions governing access:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Physical characteristics:

Quarter bound in brown leather, brown cloth boards. 195x148mm.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Commonplace books | Manuscripts | Documents | Information sources
History of science | Science of science
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names
Oldenburg | Henry [Heinrich] | c 1617-1677 | scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society

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