Account of proceedings of the Royal Society, 1740-2, in three notebooks bound together and labelled 'Literary Memoirs' I-III, 1687-1765
File
MS. Eng. misc. e. 124
Held at the Weston Library
Notebooks, numbered I to XX, originally intended by Stukeley for the minutes of the Brazen Nose Society at Stamford, Lincs., but mainly containing his diary, which includes many antiquarian notes and accounts of proceedings of the Royal Society.
Dates
- Creation: 1687-1765
Extent
119 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. misc. e. 124
Other Finding Aids
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 14 July 1924, part of lot 238.
Bibliography
- Many of the contents are printed in Family memoirs of William Stukeley , ed. W. C. Lukis, Surtees society, 73, 76 and 80 (1882-7).
Physical Facet
Vellum binding
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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