Identity area
Reference code
CCA: E/3/1
Title
Benefactors' book
Date(s)
- 1630-1882 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1326-)
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Catalogue of Founders, By-Founders and benefactors (1326-1882) with elaborate coloured title page.
Includes lists of benefactors for the rebuilding of College and Chapel (1635-1762).
At the end: order of service for commemoration of benefactors, nd, c.1735.
Loose: silversmith's receipt for old plate,1859, and memoranda of benefactions of Elizabeth Worliche, John Bolton and Dr. Henry Hornby, nd, (late C19).
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Has received conservation repair from Melvin Jefferson, February 2004.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
See conservation report
Notes area
Note
The binding is thought to be by Daniel Boyse and to date from c.1630; various pages are palimpsests of medieval literary manuscripts.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former reference
CCAD/4/2/1