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Add MS 6319
- Record Id:
- 032-003442524
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442524
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x00040f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6319
- Title:
- Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume containing miscellaneous Manuscript and Printed Papers, memoranda relating to Archery.
- Scope & Content:
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A thin folio of 17 folios, containing similar collections on Archery, viz.
1. List of the winders of the King’s Prize, by the Edinburgh Archers, from 1788 to 1801, and memoranda of the Edinburgh Arrow, Silver Bowl, and Musselburgh Arrow. Folio 1, 1b, 13.
2. Letter from Dr Edward Harrison to Miss Banks, on the same subject. Dated Horncastle, 18 March, 1794. Folio 2.
3. List of the Winners of the King’s Prize, Musselburgh Arrow, and Edinburgh Arrow, (1804). Folio 4.
4. Extract of a Letter from Dr Duncan, relating to the same. Folio 4b.
5. Memoranda concerning the dimensions of Targets, etc. Folios 6, 7.
6. Bill for articles of Archery, 1794. Folio 8.
7. Memoranda repsecting printed works on Archery in the British Museum, etc. folios 9-12.
8. Printed Song: “As Apollo, the rosy-fac’d God of the Bow”, (from the ‘Sporting Magazing’, January, 1794). Folio 13.
9. Memoranda of a Book intitled “The Institution of a Gentleman, London 1568, imprinted by Thomas Marshe”; and of “Aime for the Archers of St George’s Fields”, London, 1664. Folios 13b, 14.
10. Particulars respecting the Archers of Salcey Forest, the monument of Martin Expener at Clewer or Cleworth (from Lysons); numbers of the ribbons of several of the Toxophilite Society of London, and distances shot by the Turkish Ambassadors Secretary. Folios 14, 14b.
11. Printed Proposals for an engraved View of Gwersylt Park, Denbighshire, representing a meeting of the Society of the Royal British Bow, 1792. Folio 15.
12. Printed Proposals for a reprint of Roger Asham’s Toxophilus, by Reverend John Norcross, A.M. (1795). Folio 16.
13. Printed Proposals for a work on Archery by J[ohn] Roberts, 1801. Folio 17.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442524
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442524
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume, (of 17 folios) acquired inclusive of 66 volumes.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 18th century-19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Folio format. Print and Manuscript.
- Custodial History:
- As with sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 inclusive, presented to the Museum by Lady Banks, in the Autumn of the year 1819.
- Publications:
- Reference to: ‘Sporting Magazing’, January, 1794; Roger Asham’s Toxophilus, by Reverend John Norcross, A.M. (1795).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
- Related Material:
- Related to the sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 acquired from Lady Banks.