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Add MS 5257
- Record Id:
- 032-003896260
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003896260
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122030757.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5257
- Title:
- “Habitus variarum Nationum in Regno Transylvaniae occurrentium utriusque sexus humani patent". Album of costumes from Transylvania, in watercolour
- Scope & Content:
- Watercolours of the costumes of peoples from different regions of the early modern Transylvanian Principality. A description of each figure in costume is inscribed in ink in Latin below most watercolours. The drawings are executed directly onto the folios of the manuscript, both recto and verso.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Sloane Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003896260
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003896260
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
1 volume (76 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 17th century - 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm.
Material: paper.
Medium: watercolour and ink.
Binding: British Museum.
Foliation: 72 numbered folios, plus 4 unnumbered, making a total of 76 folios.
- Custodial History:
- The manuscripts of Sir Hans Sloane were purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum in 1753.
- Former External References:
- Min. 157
Min. 73 (crossed out)
Min. 79 (crossed out)
XXXIX.B - Source of Acquisition:
- The Sloane Manuscripts were held by the British Museum Department of Manuscripts until 1973 after which they were transferred to the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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Part of this description has been transcribed from the handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts, vol. 21 (1832), located in the Manuscripts Reading Room, where the volume is described as: ' “Habitus variorum Nationum in Regno Transylvania occurrentium utrinsque sexus.” (72 figures in colors.) Sm. Folio, ff. 72'.
'Min. 73 (crossed out), 157' in the catalogue of Sir Hans Sloane's Library, Sloane MS 3972 C.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Sloane, Hans, Baronet, physician and collector, 1660-1753,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123196729,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77959