Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/4/2/3/1
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1558-1614 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item, paper and parchment
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The items are stored separately; the loose items are stored in 33/COLLEGE
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Latin
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
A fragment of an illuminated manuscript is bound into the volume.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
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.