Graphical version

Royal Society

The Life of Confucius by Louis Poirot


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/167

Held at: Royal Society

Title: The Life of Confucius by Louis Poirot

Date(s): nd

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 69 folios

Name of creator(s): Poirot | Louis | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Louis Poirot was missionary from the Congregation de propaganda fide at Pekin.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'The Life of Confucius' by Louis Poirot, 'Avviso al Lettore' included as an inset.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Paper, size 7.25 x 5.25 inches, bound.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

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
Biographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names
Confucius | c 551-? 479 BC | Chinese sage

Corporate names

Places