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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS OGDEN/12
TitleEncyclopaedia (1538)
Date1538
DescriptionManuscript encyclopaedia, dated: Villae Ducis Agri Rhodignini in aedibus M.D. Nicolai Lion Veneti, 1538. With a map of the zodiac and astrolabe, folios 67v and 68, and some marginal notes.
Extent1 volume containing 271 folios
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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