Society of Noviomagians
- Society of Noviomagians
- Date:
- 1608-1905
- Reference:
- MSS.5305-5307
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Proceedings of the Society of Noviomagians, 1833-39 [Vols 2-3], with inserted documents and loose papers.
Publication/Creation
1608-1905
Physical description
3 volumes
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Acquisition note
Purchased at Stevens' 9 Sept. 1930, lot 361.
Biographical note
Founded in 1828 by A J Kempe (1785?-1846) and Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854), the Society was a convivial club composed of members of the Society of Antiquaries of London. It was dedicated to archaeology and to 'sciences comical and gastronomical'. Other members included Robert Lemon (1779-1835), William Jerdan (1782-1869), John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863), John Bruce (1802-1869), and Samuel Cowper Brown, MRCS, 'physician in ordinary to the Society'.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Ownership note
Acquired from a bookseller by T F Dillon Croker, a member of the Society, in 1888. Bookplate of E F Langdale, of Hampton Court.
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Accession number
- acc. 73306