A reference-book in Latin throughout headed "Collegium Historico-Literarium"

Date:
18th century
Reference:
MS.MSL.29/2
Part of:
Collectanea by (Sir) Conrad Sprengell
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Divided into chapters, and deals with typography, lists of printers, authors and places of publication. Succeeding chapters contain bibliographical particulars of a large number of books classified under subjects, from many important libraries, including the Vatican. Other sections deal with Dictionaries and Encyclopædias, Ephemerides, Diaries and Journals, with Hebrew and theological books, and the whole contains a mine of bibliographical data. Folios 194-201 and 208-215 are written on paper of a different kind and have been interpolated. Folio 216 is blank.

Publication/Creation

18th century

Physical description

fo. 124-215

Finding aids

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

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