GB 0103 MS LAT 18 - Troward Manuscript

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GB 0103 MS LAT 18

Title

Troward Manuscript

Date(s)

  • Early 19th century-mid 19th century (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 volume containing 282 leaves + 12 blank

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Sarah, younger daughter of the solicitor Richard Ironmonger Troward and sister of Richard Troward, the author of this manuscript, married the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) in 1824.

Archival history

GB 0103 MS LAT 18 Early 19th century-mid 19th century Collection (fonds) 1 volume containing 282 leaves + 12 blank Troward , Richard
Sarah, younger daughter of the solicitor Richard Ironmonger Troward and sister of Richard Troward, the author of this manuscript, married the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) in 1824.

Bequeathed to University College London by Thomas Hewitt Key and received in 1876. At the beginning of the manuscript is pasted a letter from his son, announcing the gift of this manuscript, together with MS LAT 14.

Manuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.

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Paper manuscript. Bound in half leather and marble boards. One hand throughout. 32.5cm.

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.

The manuscript is referred to in Thomas Hewitt Key's Language: its origin and development (London, 1874), p 44.

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Sep 2001 Indo-european languages Key , Thomas Hewitt , 1799-1875 , classicist Latin Lexicography Troward , Richard , fl ? 1850 , author of a Latin manuscript and brother-in-law of the classicist T H Key Vocabularies

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Bequeathed to University College London by Thomas Hewitt Key and received in 1876. At the beginning of the manuscript is pasted a letter from his son, announcing the gift of this manuscript, together with MS LAT 14.

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Scope and content

Manuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.

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Open.

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Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Finding aids

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.

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University College London

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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