Minute Book
Reference code
SAL/10/04
Title
Minute Book
Date
1718-1729
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. ii + 83.
Folio.
Vellum binding. Signature of William Stukeley, MD, 1725, fol. i.
Folio.
Vellum binding. Signature of William Stukeley, MD, 1725, fol. i.
Scope and content
‘Minute Book Antiquarian Society 1722’ (Front cover). Copy (fols. 4-66v) of the Minute Books from 3 Jan. 1722-19 Jan. 1726 by Dr William Stukeley, Sec. SA; 1726, with later additions.
Preceded by extracts from earlier minutes from 5 Feb. 1718, and miscellaneous notes on recent discoveries (fols. 1-2), a list of founders of SA (fol. 3), and followed by notes relating to Grantham, June 1726 (fols. 67v-74v); discoveries (Livia's tomb, 1726, fol. 67; Risley Park lanx, 1729, fol. 75); 'stonekillers', 1724-53 (fol. 75v); obits of famous antiquaries (fol. 76), note conc. Mrs Betty Bruce and Arthur's Oon (fol. 76v). With pen, etc., drawings (fol. 31v, painted).
At the end (fols. 77-83 reversed):- Celtic monument at Revesby, Lincs. (fol. 77); list of works (i.e. plates) of SA (fol. 78); inscriptions on a cross at Drayton near Norwich, etc. (fol. 78v); articles of SA, 1 Jan. 1718 (fols. 79-81); signatures of Fellows with their mottoes (fol. 82); list of subscribers to the engraving of the font of St James's church, 6 Nov. 1717 (fol. 83). See SAL/10/03, fols. 74, 70v-57 reversed, for minutes 1718-21. Evans (1956), 57-8.
Preceded by extracts from earlier minutes from 5 Feb. 1718, and miscellaneous notes on recent discoveries (fols. 1-2), a list of founders of SA (fol. 3), and followed by notes relating to Grantham, June 1726 (fols. 67v-74v); discoveries (Livia's tomb, 1726, fol. 67; Risley Park lanx, 1729, fol. 75); 'stonekillers', 1724-53 (fol. 75v); obits of famous antiquaries (fol. 76), note conc. Mrs Betty Bruce and Arthur's Oon (fol. 76v). With pen, etc., drawings (fol. 31v, painted).
At the end (fols. 77-83 reversed):- Celtic monument at Revesby, Lincs. (fol. 77); list of works (i.e. plates) of SA (fol. 78); inscriptions on a cross at Drayton near Norwich, etc. (fol. 78v); articles of SA, 1 Jan. 1718 (fols. 79-81); signatures of Fellows with their mottoes (fol. 82); list of subscribers to the engraving of the font of St James's church, 6 Nov. 1717 (fol. 83). See SAL/10/03, fols. 74, 70v-57 reversed, for minutes 1718-21. Evans (1956), 57-8.
Creator
Stukeley, William (1687-1765), Anglican clergyman, physician, antiquary and archaeologist
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/268