LA/2/1/5
Reference code
LA/2/1/5
Level of description
Item
Title
List of Documents in the Muniment Room, 1875
Original Title
(copy) Inventory of the Documents in the Muniment Room of the Dean and Chapter Salisbury 1875
Date
1875
Quantity & Format
1 volume
Description
A note below the title reads 'This original inventory, of which this is a copy, was made by E M Thompson Esq, assistant keeper of mss, British Museum, in the year 1875 - The original inventory is placed in the 'Burgess[?] Box'. Pined to the first page is a memorandum from Maude Thompson noting: the removal for repair of the documents on the canonisation of St Osmund, ventilation holes in the Magna Carta and Steven charter display cases, and installation of six new shelves in the muniment room. Contains detailed lists of the contents of each press and cupboard plus chests, tin boxes and items on the rack. Additional entries were made on November 1913 and are recorded in red ink. Inscription on inside front cover reads 'Macdonald and Brochick[?] Salisbury April 1877'.
Language
English
Physical Characteristics
Material: paper
Binding: pasteboard
Keywords
Maunde Thompson, Sir Edward (final)