Troward Manuscript
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS LAT 18 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
Full title | : Troward Manuscript |
Date(s) | : Early 19th century-mid 19th century |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 volume containing 282 leaves + 12 blank |
Name of creator(s) | : Troward | Richard |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sarah, younger daughter of the solicitor Richard Ironmonger Troward and sister of Richard Troward, the author of this manuscript, married the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) in 1824.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bequeathed to University College London by Thomas Hewitt Key and received in 1876. At the beginning of the manuscript is pasted a letter from his son, announcing the gift of this manuscript, together with MS LAT 14.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
The manuscript is referred to in Thomas Hewitt Key's Language: its origin and development (London, 1874), p 44.
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with 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:
Sep 2001
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