| Description | Two manuscript volumes, 18th century, containing Niels Morville's 'Factoren-Tafel (1-510,000)'. According to a cutting attached to folio 2*r, possibly from a sale catalogue, this is an autograph work of Morville, for which he received a medal of the Academy. |
| AdminHistory | Publications: 'N Morville's geometriske og ekonomiske Jorddeelings og Jordskiftnings-Laere, etc' (Kobenhavn, 1791); 'Die Lehre von der geometrischen und okonomischen Vertheilung der Felder. Nach der danischen Schrift des Herrn N Morville bearbeitet von J W Christiani, begleitet mit einer Vorrede von ... Kastner. Mit drey Kupfern' (Gottingen, 1793). |
| CustodialHistory | The manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 7252. Other pressmarks: 147.c.2-3; 19.h.1-2. |