Identity area
Reference code
GB 2156 TSC/D/02/01
Title
Wardens' Accounts: Register A
Date(s)
- 9 Dec 1554-2 Aug 1596 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 volume
Context area
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Wardens' annual accounts, 1554-1571, and annual cash abstracts, 1571-1596; initial account covers 3 years [1554-1557]; accounts include receipts for presenting apprentices, entering the freedom, fees paid for entries of copy and miscellanea, accounts for gifts received by the hall and payments made.
Notable entries include:
- folio 262r: Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophell and Stella, Sept 1591
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
Script of material
Latin
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
A microfilm copy is on reel 1, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)
Transcriptions of most entries are contained in E Arber (ed.), 'A Transcript of the Stationers' Registers 1554-1640 A.D.', Vol. 1 (London: 1875)
Related units of description
Register of entries of copies, with accounts and memoranda: Liber C [TSC/E/06/02]
Notes area
Note
Catalogued
Note
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