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
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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).
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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
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Open
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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.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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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.