Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/798/1
Title
Poetry in Norse, Provençal, and Persian, compiled by D. S. Robertson
Date(s)
- 1936–42 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 small volume of 60 leaves
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The number 'II' is marked on the front and back of the cover and on the recto of the front free endpaper.
Also on the front free endpaper is written: '(Norse—November 1936–November 1937 and August 1938) (Provençal etc. August 1939–September 1940) and more Norse: Persian added July, 1942'.
There is a list of the contents of the book on p. i and the back of the front free endpaper.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The leaves were written on the recto sides in one direction and then turned over and written on the recto sides in the other direction. The recto sides of the leaves in the first direction, and the recto of the free endpaper at the back, are numbered i, 1–60; the recto sides of leaves in the other direction are numbered I–LX.