Item 1 - College Audit Book

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SJCR/SJAR/4/2/3/1

Unique identifier

GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/4/2/3/1

Title

College Audit Book

Date(s)

  • 1558-1614 (Creation)

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1 item, paper and parchment

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College audit book signed by the the Master and Fellows. Included loose in the volume were rough charge lists and accounts.
Recording items and money put into and taken out of the College chest (treasury), including plate. The money includes the annual income and expenditure of the three Bursars (Senior, Junior, and Bakehouse and Brewhouse), described as a total at the end of the year owed by and to each Bursar. The transactions witnessed by the Master and certain Fellows.

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Accruals

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The items are stored separately; the loose items are stored in 33/COLLEGE

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  • English
  • Latin

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A fragment of an illuminated manuscript is bound into the volume.

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Note

A 'modern' note inside the volume suggests that some of the writing is in the hand of William Gilbert [author of De Magnete]. It has been suggested that it is his signature and entries in 1569-1570.

Note

"De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus et de Magno Magnete Tellure" [On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth] is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling.
see https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/gilbert/works/demagnete.htm for more information on William Gilbert.

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D107.5

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Physical storage

  • Shelf: SJAR/4/2/3/1
  • Box: 33/COLLEGE